Tony. Well kick off our Afternoon Program with a little bit different perspective. Weve been talking about midway and the setting from a u. S. Perspective although walt did a great job talking about some of the japanese thinking that led them to midway. But Anthony Tully will build on that and go deeper on the japanese size, specifically the combined fleet and the perspective because in many ways theyre essential to the battles outcome as any american action. Tully has written publications of the naval war in the pacific and should provide a very illuminating perspective today. Without further ado, Anthony Tully. Thank you all. Thank you for putting this on. Thank you all for coming. Lets see. Okay. Okay. What i would like to do testing. Okay. What i would like to do is i would like to segue into what Walter Boardman covered coming up to the battle of coral sea, drop back in time a little bit from that in the setup from the Japanese Point of view. Leading into that. At the end of march
Whos Deputy Director of education education. Never call me a hero, remembers the battle of mid way. The book chronicles the actions of the pilots. The only pilots on either side to hit the ships during the battle. To share this story, please welcome doctor timothy orr. [ applause ] on the afternoon of june 4th, 1942, the pilots on board prepares for what would be the mission. During the briefing, the pilot austin mayor raised his hand and asked a question. No one mentioned anything of providing any flighter protection. What fighter escort as are we going to have . The answer is none. We cannot afford to give you fighter protection for this trip. Merrill started to come to an collusion about the role of u. S. Naval aviator of u. S. World war ii. He explains the reality of the typical u. S. Naval avery. Sorry, you dont get any fighter escor escorts. You are on your own. I believe we should take merrills message seriously. The navy expected his pilots to figure out the battle on their own
Whos Deputy Director of education education. Never call me a hero, remembers the battle of mid way. The book chronicles the actions of the pilots. The only pilots on either side to hit the ships during the battle. To share this story, please welcome doctor timothy orr. [ applause ] on the afternoon of june 4th, 1942, the pilots on board prepares for what would be the mission. During the briefing, the pilot austin mayor raised his hand and asked a question. No one mentioned anything of providing any flighter protection. What fighter escort as are we going to have . The answer is none. We cannot afford to give you fighter protection for this trip. Merrill started to come to an collusion about the role of u. S. Naval aviator of u. S. World war ii. He explains the reality of the typical u. S. Naval avery. Sorry, you dont get any fighter escor escorts. You are on your own. I believe we should take merrills message seriously. The navy expected his pilots to figure out the battle on their own
Whos Deputy Director of education education. Never call me a hero, remembers the battle of mid way. The book chronicles the actions of the pilots. The only pilots on either side to hit the ships during the battle. To share this story, please welcome doctor timothy orr. [ applause ] on the afternoon of june 4th, 1942, the pilots on board prepares for what would be the mission. During the briefing, the pilot austin mayor raised his hand and asked a question. No one mentioned anything of providing any flighter protection. What fighter escort as are we going to have . The answer is none. We cannot afford to give you fighter protection for this trip. Merrill started to come to an collusion about the role of u. S. Naval aviator of u. S. World war ii. He explains the reality of the typical u. S. Naval avery. Sorry, you dont get any fighter escor escorts. You are on your own. I believe we should take merrills message seriously. The navy expected his pilots to figure out the battle on their own
Various aspects of the neville in the pacific. Without further ado, anthony tully. Anthony thank you all. Thank you all for coming. What i would like to do is segue to the battle and drop back in time a little bit in the setup leading into that. At the end of march there was the completion very. Barrier. If you see this red line here. This barrier is what they called the defensive barrier for the areas they have just conquered, starting from pearl harbor all the way through february, to the start of march, the concord they conquered indonesia, singapore, borneo, the philippines, this area was the consent of the Japanese Army to make sure they continue to defend. The next question that arose was which direction with her next offensive go. The japanese general headquarters, but the navy and the army, they want to go down here to cut off the supply line and what australia in a position that they could even look at raids or the invasion of some of the coast. This was the preference of the