Ive been ready a book entitled, 1915-The Death of Innocence, the author is Lyn MacDonald.  The book mainly covers the year 1915 beggining on the Western Front and the battles in Ypres and Vimy.  It takes you to Neuve Chapelle and the first German Gas attacks in Ypres.  The fight for Aubers Ridge is detailed.  The campaign in Eastern Mediterranean, the landing on the Peninsula of Gallipoli and its battles of Helles and the Southern Sector and Gully Ravine.  The book ends with the Battle of Loos.  All of these battles are very detailed and have many accounts from men who actually were there and it was their story.  I never knew just how bloody this war was and how machine guns would litteraly cut down thousands in just minutes.
Be warned, for me atleast, it was hard reading to follow all that was happening in the book, for I had never read anything about WW1 before and knew very little about it.  I had just happened to find the book and picked it up and started reading without really knowing what it was going to be about.  Now Im wondering if the author had other books, detailing the other years.  The book was a good read.

CV Enterprise with her planes on deck in photo 1.  CV Yorktown with her planes on deck with CV Hornet in the background in photo 2

The U.S. Task Force 16 and 17 set up I started with in sea zone 17 - CV Yorktown, CA Phoenix, CA San Diego, CA Houston, DD Phelps and DD Sumner.  In sea zone 5 - CV Enterprise, CA Richmond, CA Cleveland, CA Salt Lake, DD Laffey and DD Bagley.  In sea zone 6 - CV Hornet, CA San Francisco, CA Atlanta, DD Kidd and DD Hoel.

Set up of the initial Japanese Midway Invasion Force with 4 Cruisers - The Haguro, Agano, Suzuya.  And 2 Destroyers - The Nagatsuki and Akitsuki.

Picture 1 is Japan’s Main Carrier Fleet and a Picture of the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Shokaku is representing Hiryu along with the Battleships Haruna and Kongo.  Cruisers I used are the Tone, Atago and Chikuma.  Destroyers are the Isokaze, Yukikaze, Shigura and Murasame.

I did take some nice photo’s of the set up with most of the minitures involved in the Battle of Midway.  This is the basic set up I used.  The War At Series doesnt produce all the actual ships that were involved at Midway so alot of the ships I substituted with what I have.  Keeping track of planes I used different sculps and colors of what I also have on hand.  My wife likes to play US so I always play Japan.  So far I am 3-0 against her, but she is getting better as she is learning the game.

Just received my Map and shipping only took 3 days.  The map is very nice and since I collect all the War At Sea minitures they look great on the map.  So the nice thing is we can play either with the War At Sea minitures rules or with the Battle of Midway Map rules.  Im one of the lucky ones whos wife happens to enjoy playing all the Axis&Allies games and since we are a fan of The Pacific this was a nice addition for us.  Keep up the good work HBG.  Very Nice!

I really like the cards did you design them or can they be found somewhere?  Thanks

Sounds great, I look forward to seeing the map.

Thank you very much for the time that you have spent providing these charts.  We use them all the time in our games that we have played.  I especially like the Task Force markers you prepared for AAP40 and was wondering if you might be making Task Force markers for AAE40 - Germany and Italy to be specific.  Thanks Again