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OCR: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS OF USSR Northern Force CHINA SECOND CARRIER STRIKING FORCE 2 KOREA Ominasa Area of US air search Kurs JAPAN Tokyo Task Force 17 Task Force 16 FIRST CARRIER STRIKING FORCE (NAGUMO) MAIN BODY IWO JIMA MIDWAY Midway Invasion Force Japanese WAKE Pearl Harbor D ...... submarina US screen PHILIPPINES HAWAII submarina MARIANA screen ISLANDS 1000 mles The elaborate Japanese plan for the capture of Midway Atoll backfired badly: the American fleet was waiting for the invasion force, and on 4 June they found it. Within 24 hours four of Japan's six first-line carriers were sunk