USN Midway CV Task Forces 16 and 17, plus Cruiser Task Force 8
As seen from a Japanese reconnaissance plane, Task Force 17 – the surviving CV from the Battle of the Coral Sea, the USS Yorktown [CV5] (see below, joined by two cruisers [USS Astoria and USS Portland] and five destroyers):
The „fighting crunch“ of the fleet, Task Force 16 – the USS Enterprise [CV6] and USS Hornet [CV8] in a rather compressed formation to get them all into picture shot (see below, the CVs with six escorting cruisers [USS New Orleans, USS Minneapolis, USS Vincennes, USS Northampton, USS Pensacola and USS Atlanta(AA)] and nine destroyers):
The final fighting batch is Task Force 8, another force of cruisers (see below, five cruisers [USS Nashville, USS Indianapolis, USS Louisville, USS St Louis and USS Honolulu] and a collection of five destroyers – arguably it could/should have been more, but 1-2-1 with a cruiser seemed a good compromise):
This should a bit of 1/3000 colour to the Pacific War that otherwise would be a counter game.

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