soc.history.war.world-war-ii

WaltBJ wrote:
> If the Japanese had taken Midway they would have become a practice
> target for B17s out of Oahu. I have been on Midway and there is no
> place to hide. It would also have a been a nice radar target for
> midnight bombing using radar which came into service shortly after the
> Midway battle. Operating search aircraft out of there would have
> swiftly become impossible and life on that pair of sand bars
> intolerable.
> Walt BJ
>

I think the Japanese had no more of a long term plan to occupy Midway
than they did Kiska & Attu. In the long term those troops as you said
became target pratice for the forces in Alaska. I think the invasion
force was kind of tacked on to a already complex Yamamato plan.