My references are the sources:
Middway film : J.Smith, Universal, 1976
La bayaille aéronavale de Midway : B.Millot, Larivière, 1979
The battle of Midway Island : T.Taylor, Avon Books, 1981
La bataille de Midway: M.Hérubel, Cité, 1985
All of them failed completely to explain why the superior Zero fighters failed to shoot down the old Dauntless, that destroyed all Japanese carriers.
So I tell you the secret (72 years later, the secet is over). Airplanes are not machines but birds, and when the fast male Zeros found the slow sexy Dauntelsses, they f... loved them and the happy couples landed on desert islands, the Japanese admirals were so ashamed that they sank their own ships: