Regards
alfa6 ;>}
I'm not so sure the sun ever really shone on the IJN. Maybe for an hour or two at most. Check out
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm
for a good write-up about what Japan was getting into even starting a war with the US, and what might have happened *even if Japan had won at Midway*. Regardless, it was a great victory, especially for the codebreakers, without whose help, our carriers would not have been lying in wait at Midway for the Japanese fleet.