A month after the Coral Sea battle the battle of Midway broke out. The battle of Midway was a major naval battle. It was fought June 4 through June 7, 1942. The Americans cracked a Japanese code and set a trap for their fleet by saying their base had water supply problems and completely destroyed them. The U.S. “hell divers” had the hardest job of them all, bombing ships while in anti-aircraft fire. One Japanese on a carrier described being bombed by Hell Divers “a lookout screamed, ‘Hell Divers!’” then he looked up in time to see three dark shapes so close to the ship you could see the pilots in the sky and smaller specks getting bigger until you could see they were bombs. Three ships all sunk at the same time within 24 hours because of the Hell Divers.