A battle between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese’s Navy that countiued for 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Isaroku Yamamoto was the commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy. June 6, yamamoto ordered his ships to retreat.
It’s was an overwhelming defeat for japan. They lost four of their five aircraft carriers. If codebreakers hadn’t realized they where coming they likely would have destroyed all military forces on the island of Hawaii and crumbled its infulstructure
