| I would have to check to be 100% sure, but I think that at the time of Midway the IJN had six fleet carriers in total to the USN three in the theatre.
It wasn't that Midway totally destroyed IJN air capability, but it was reduced below a point where operations like Pearl Harbor or the operation as planned at Miday were feasible. In other words, the IJN could no longer project force as before.
At the time the USN also had limited capability, but had considerable numbers of new ships, notably carriers, planned or under construction.
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