Editing Battle of Midway (section)

===Japanese and U.S. casualties===
[[File:Sinking of japanese cruiser Mikuma 6 june 1942.jpg|thumb|{{Ship|Japanese cruiser|Mikuma||2}} shortly before sinking]]

SBD pilot Norman "Dusty" Kleiss, who scored three hits on Japanese ships during the Battle of Midway (aircraft carriers ''Kaga'' and ''Hiryū'' and heavy cruiser ''Mikuma''), wrote: "From the experience in the Marshalls, at Wake and at Marcus, I thought our fleet learned its lessons. We could not send TBDs into action unless they had adequate smoke protection and torpedoes that exploded more than 10 percent of the time."<ref>{{harvnb|Kleiss|2017|p=185}}</ref>

By the time the battle ended, 3,057 Japanese had died. Casualties aboard the four carriers were: ''Akagi'': 267; ''Kaga'': 811; ''Hiryū'': 392 (including Yamaguchi who chose to go down with his ship); ''Soryū'': 711 (including [[Captain Yanagimoto]], who chose to remain on board); a total of 2,181.<ref>{{Harvnb|Parshall|Tully|2005|p=476}}</ref> The heavy cruisers ''Mikuma'' (sunk; 700 casualties) and ''Mogami'' (badly damaged; 92) accounted for another 792 deaths.<ref>{{Harvnb|Parshall|Tully|2005|pp=378, 380}}</ref>

In addition, the destroyers ''Arashio'' (bombed; 35) and ''Asashio'' (strafed by aircraft; 21) were both damaged during the air attacks which sank ''Mikuma'' and caused further damage to ''Mogami''. Floatplanes were lost from the cruisers ''Chikuma'' (3) and ''Tone'' (2). Dead aboard the destroyers ''Tanikaze'' (11), ''Arashi'' (1), ''Kazagumo'' (1) and the fleet oiler ''Akebono Maru'' (10) made up the remaining 23 casualties.{{refn|Japanese casualty figures for the battle were compiled by Sawaichi Hisae for her book ''Middowei Kaisen: Kiroku'', p. 550: the list was compiled from Japanese prefectural records and is the most accurate to date.<ref name="ParTulcas">{{Harvnb|Parshall|Tully|2005|pp=114, 365, 377–380, 476}}</ref>|group=nb}}

At the end of the battle, the U.S. lost the carrier ''Yorktown'' and the destroyer ''Hammann''. 307 Americans had been killed, including Major General [[Clarence L. Tinker]], Commander, [[Seventh Air Force|7th Air Force]], who personally led a bomber strike from Hawaii against the retreating Japanese forces on 7 June. He was killed when his aircraft crashed near Midway Island.