Official
After-Action Reports
UPDATED: 7 May 2012
The following are
links to various after-action reports written by commanding officers or senior
surviving officers of the various commands (unless otherwise indicated).
Some of these files
are in .pdf format, which requires the Adobe Reader. If your computer
does not have the Adobe Reader, you can download it for free at Adobe.com. Note: be sure to read the
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Please report any
non-working links. And we'd also like to know about any Battle of Midway
reports not listed here that can be found on the Internet or elsewhere. Please send a message to: midwayroundtable@gmail.com.
Link and file
credits:
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Enterprise (CV-6) Organization
MSGT Walt Grist, USMC-Ret
Eric Mitchell, www.pby.com
David Luck
Bill Vickrey
CAPT Richard Scharff,
SC, USN-Ret
FLEET & TASK
FORCE COMMANDERS
ADM Nimitz (re Japanese
BOM prisoners)
USS YORKTOWN (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CAPT
Buckmaster)
VB-3 (.pdf file)
VB-5 (a.k.a.
"VS-5") (.pdf file)
VT-3 (WO Corl) (.pdf file)
VT-3 (CAP Esders) (.pdf file)
USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6)
USS Enterprise, 1 of
2 (CAPT Murray)
USS Enterprise, 2 of 2
(CAPT Murray)
VF-6 (LT Gray) (“Decision at Midway”)
VF-6 (LT Gray) (excerpt from unofficial VF-6 “War Record” -
.pdf file)
USS HORNET (CV-8)
OTHER SHIPS & SQUADRONS
Destroyer Squadron 6
(CAPT Sauer)
MIDWAY-BASED COMMANDS
MAG 22 (commanding
officer's report) (.pdf file)
MAG 22 (executive
officer's report) (.pdf file)
VMF-221 (.pdf
file)
VMSB-241
(.pdf file)
VT-8 TBF Detachment
(.pdf file)*
"Marines at
Midway" (article by Robert Heinl for USMC Historical Branch)*
*These are media
articles rather than official reports.
JAPANESE
The Japanese
Story of the Battle of Midway (the Nagumo Report)
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