From there Japan could attack U.S. forces in Hawai'i, following up on the surprise raid on Pearl Harbor, only six months earlier. Yamamoto planned an attack that would use a diversionary feint at the Aleutian Islands near Alaska to draw out the U.S. Pacific fleet, splitting it up in hopes of destroying it. Soon, a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships, including the aircraft carriers Enterprise , Hornet and Yorktown, were steaming towards Midway , to intercept the main Japanese fleet. All rights reserved.
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