Primary Sources

Government Documents "Oral History - Battle of Midway." The Navy Department Library. N.p., n.d. Web. This is from a website we went to for much of our research. It was an interview of Lieutenant George Gay who is the only survivor of the torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8). In the interview he described his experiences in the Battle of Midway. We put it in our website on the Battle of Midway tab to show how it felt to be in the battle. United States. The U.S. Navy. Naval Intelligence. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 24 June 2003. Web. 16 Dec. 2012. This was a government document written by the Japanese in 1947 and translated into English by the U.S. Navy in 2003. It had the Japanese point of view on the Battle of Midway and it had every order or action preformed by the Japanese written with the time of day it happened. This was a really great source that helped us see what happened at the Battle of Midway and when it happened from the Japanese perspective. You can find information from this document in our Battle of Midway Page when we describe the order of events in the war. United States. United States Navy. By Admiral G. Roughead. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2013. This was a document written by the chief of all-naval operations. Admiral G. Roughead talked about the Battle of Midway and how it was important. Next he talks about honoring the veterans of Midway and also using the example of midway to motivate the navys men at the anniversary of the Battle of Midway. It is shown in our Government Documents page. Videos Truman Announces Japan's Surrender. 2013. The History Channel website. Mar 6 2013, 11:54 This was a great audio from the history channel of President Harry S. Truman announcing the Japanese surrender with a picture of President Harry S. Truman who announced the Japanese surrender. We used a clip in our So What Factor page to show what happened at the end of the war. Pictures "Battle of Midway." Battle of Midway. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/

midway/midway.htm>. This website was helpful in getting a general understanding of our topic The Battle of Midway. It was an archive by the Naval History and Heritage Command that had many photos. You can find photos from this website in the So What factor and homepage.

"DailyFresher.com | Positive Entertainment: Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the Atomic Bomb Drop." DailyFresher.com | Positive Entertainment: Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the Atomic Bomb Drop. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013. This was a website that had many real photos of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan and the affects the Bomb had on the Japanese. You can find a photo from this website in our Final Analysis and two in our So What Factor.

Steve, Padre. "Five Minutes That Changed History: The Battle of Midway 10221027 Hours June 4th 1942." Padresteves WorldMusings of a Passionate Moderate. N.p., 4 June 2010. Web. 07 Mar. 2013. This is a website that has many real pictures of the Battle of Midway as well as information on the Battle. We used pictures from this in our Pearl Harbor page, Back History page, So What Factor, and Battle of Midway page.

Secondary Sources Websites "Adm. Nimitz Lectures - Bio." Adm. Nimitz Lectures - Bio. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://nimitz.berkeley.edu/aboutnimitz.html>. This was a great website that had lots of information on Admiral Nimitz. It told us about how Admiral Nimitz became in charge of the U.S. Navy and created many great plans to help the U.S. navy forces beat the Japanese.

"Battle of Midway Begins." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://www.history.com/thisday-in-history/battle-of-midway-begins>. This website had a lot of information that we used when we were choosing

a topic for History Day. This Helped us get some general information and Videos. "Battle of Midway Video." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. http://www.history.com/topics/ battle-of-midway/videos. This was a website that had many videos and helped us get information and understanding for our website. We used information from this website in our Battle of Midway page.

"Captain Joseph John Rochefort." The Coures to Midway. National Security Agency, n.d. Web. This was a website about the code breaker Joe Rochefort who was the leader of the code breaking team. This cite helped us in getting information about the code breakers and you can find information from this website in our Navy Code Breakers page. "Ships & Aircraft of the Battle of Midway." Midway,1942sips&aircraft. Epiphan Systems Inc.., 2012. Web. This website helped us see what the aircraft and ships used at Midway were like. It had many statistics and visuals and also showed us the kind of bombs and torpedoes that were used by both sides.

"World War 2 Facts." World War 2 Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://www.worldwar2facts.org/battle-of-midway-facts.html>. This was a website that had many facts and we used it to get a general understanding for our topic when we were choosing our History Day topic. Books Beller, Susan. Battling in the Pacific. Minneapolis: Twenty First Century, 2008. Print. Soldier on the Battlefront. This was a book about the battles that occurred in the pacific. It had lots of information and we used this book to get an understanding on other battles that happened in Pacific Theatre as well as information on the Battle of Midway. You can find information from this book in the Back History page and in the Battle of Midway. Williams, Barbara. World War II Pacific Chronicle of America's Wars.

Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2005. Print. This is a book we used which we took notes from and used in our website. This book came from our school library.

White, Steve. The Battle of Midway The Destruction of the Japanese Fleet. New York: Rosen Central, 2007. Print. Graphic Battles of WWII. This was a great fun graphic novel that was focused around the Battle of Midway. It had real information and events but was written and illustrated in a graphic novel form. It was a fun read and helped in getting information on our topic. We used facts and information from this book in our Battle of Midway page.

Interviews

Huges, Mark. "Mark Huges." Personal interview. 14 Feb. 2013. This was an interview we had with a high school AP history teacher who works at our school. He cleared up many questions we had about the battle. He gave us more information on the similarities and differences about both sides. We used some of his interview in the Navy Code Breaker page and the So What Factor page Lasswell, James. "James Lasswell Interview." Telephone interview. 28 Nov. 2012. This interview was with the son of Colonel Alva B. Lasswell one of the code breakers who worked on breaking Japanese codes. He also did some code breaking himself and told us about what they did and how they worked. He told us about the affect the code breakers had on the battle.

"Tom Hunnicut Interview." Telephone interview. 18 Jan. 2013. Tom Hunnicut was a historian who studied the Navy Code-breakers. He knew a lot about the code breakers especially about one of the lead cryptanalyst. He has written a biography on a code breaker named Colonel Alva B. Lasswell who worked on breaking the Japanese codes in WWII.

Pictures

Business Translation Services. N.p., n.d. Web. We used this website for a picture that can be found in Back History.

"Battle of Midway." N.p., 8 Nov. 2012. Web. We used a picture from this website in the Final Analysis. "Joseph Rochefort." WWII Database. Lava Development, n.d. Web. This website provided a picture which we used in Navy Code Breakers page under Back History.

"Flags of CountriesBy Alphabet." All Countries. Muflo, 2013. Web. 06 Mar. 2013. This website gave us pictures of flags which we used in the Home page. We used an American and Japanese flag.