Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te toru o nga wiki o Mei 1942, i whakapumautia e nga wae matauranga moana o Amerika ka taea e nga Hapanihi te
whakaekea te Moutere o Midway. Ko te hopu me te noho ki Midway te mahere a te rangatira-nui o te Rōpū Rōpū, a Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Ki a ia i hiahia ia ki te whakawhānui nui i te rohe tiaki o waho o te Imperial Japanese Navy puta noa i te pokapū o te Moananui a Kiwa; a, i whakapono ia, ko tenei kaha kaha ki a Midway ka tino whakawehi i a Hawaii me Pearl Harbor ka akiakihia te kawanatanga o Amerika ki te tono mo te rangimarie. I tetahi atu taha, ko te rangatira o te U.S. Pacific Fleet, ko Admiral Chester Nimitz e mohio ana me aukati ia i te kaipuke whakaeke a Hapanihi, me whawhai ia ki nga kaipuke rererangi a te hoariri i mua i to raatau kaha nui ki te turanga rererangi moana i Midway.