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The bombing of Midway begins at 4:30 a.m. with air craft from Nagumo''s First Carrier Strike Force. Americans took a heavy loss but shot down a couple key planes.
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At 7 in the morning, USS Enterprise and USS Hornet launch dive bombers and torpedo planes while enemies go back to posts to stock back up.
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The American aircraft's had problems locating their targets and were shot down by enemy ships, the American assault ended around 10:00 a.m.
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The 2nd wave of dive bombers located Japanese carriers with enemy planes stocked up. Japanese carriers Kaga, Soryu, and Akagi are struck and sunk around 10:40 in the morning.
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Japanese Navy bomber aircraft strike against the attacking USS Yorktown, Yorktown was severely damaged but not sunk and the crew left the ship.
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Japanese planes reported back to friendly ships to stock up for next attack.
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The Japanese carrier Hiryu is scuttled and USS Yorktown was to in to be worked on.
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A Japanese submarine came to sink USS Hammann and USS Yorktown while being fixed, they were successful.
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After the attacks on Yortktown, it has finally scuttled in the early morning of June 7th.