Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon watan Mayu 1942, Japan ta fara ayyukan kama Port Moresby ta hanyar kai hare-haren amphibious kuma ta haka ta yanke hanyoyin sadarwa da hanyoyin samar da kayayyaki tsakanin Amurka da Ostiraliya. An dakatar da mamayewar da aka shirya lokacin da rundunar sojan Allied, ta mayar da hankali kan jiragen ruwa biyu na Amurka, suka yi yaƙi da sojojin ruwa na Japan don yin wasa a cikin yakin Coral Sea
Ka yi haƙuri. Shirin na gaba na Japan, wanda aka karfafa shi ta hanyar Doolittle Raid da ya gabata, shi ne kwace Midway Atoll da kuma jan hankalin Amurkawa masu jigilar kaya zuwa yaƙi don a kawar da su; a matsayin karkatarwa, Japan za ta kuma aika da sojoji don mamaye tsibirin Aleutian a Alaska. A tsakiyar watan Mayu, Japan ta fara yakin Zhejiang-Jiangxi a kasar Sin, da nufin daukar fansa kan Sinawa wadanda suka taimaka wa matukan jirgin saman Amurka da suka tsira a cikin Doolittle Raid ta hanyar lalata sansanonin jiragen saman China da kuma fada da rukunin sojojin kasar Sin na 23 da na 32. A farkon watan Yuni, Japan ta fara ayyukanta, amma Amurkawa, sun karya lambobin jirgin ruwan Japan a ƙarshen Mayu, sun san shirye-shirye da tsari na yaƙi, kuma sun yi amfani da wannan ilimin don cimma nasara mai nasara a Midway akan Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta Japan.