Q 01/05

Who was president of the United States during the Battle of Midway?

A) Harry S. Truman

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer · why

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt. As the battle ended, a newspaper story revealed that the Navy had known Japan's plan in advance, and his administration tried t...

Q 02/05

Which admiral commanded the Japanese Combined Fleet at Midway?

A) Chuichi Nagumo

B) Tamon Yamaguchi

C) Isoroku Yamamoto

D) Ryunosuke Kusaka

Answer · why

C) Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto sailed aboard the battleship Yamato several hundred miles behind his carriers, too far back for his big guns to play any part when th...

Q 03/05

Who commanded the Japanese carrier strike force, the Kido Butai, at Midway?

A) Isoroku Yamamoto

B) Chuichi Nagumo

C) Tomeo Kaku

D) Nobutake Kondo

Answer · why

B) Chuichi Nagumo

Chuichi Nagumo chose to land his returning planes before striking the American carriers, and their dive bombers caught his ships with fuelled, armed a...

Q 04/05

Who commanded the US Pacific Fleet during the Battle of Midway?

A) William Halsey

B) Chester Nimitz

C) Ernest King

D) Husband Kimmel

Answer · why

B) Chester Nimitz

Chester Nimitz trusted his code breakers' forecast over doubters in Washington and sent all three of his carriers to lie in wait before the Japanese f...

Q 05/05

The four Japanese carriers sunk at Midway had all struck which American base six months earlier?

A) Wake Island

B) Pearl Harbor

C) Guam

D) Clark Field

Answer · why

B) Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor. Six carriers launched that raid, and after Midway only the two that had missed the battle were still afloat.