I am sure they did plenty of reading, as they seem to have done enough research on the Pacific War. If you grabbed the bases' official history like I did and saw that list of tennant commands, then they may have assumed it was a much larger base. Whether or not they should have spent the time to model Midway exactly the state at which it was in a particular phase of WWII would be a waste of time in my opinion. The base existed and served as a vital part of our war effort. That is enough. The harbor facilities were in fact small, and the only ships permanently based there were a sub tender, a destroyer tender, some PT boats, as well as service craft. I am sure they were attempting to make it look like a naval base, which they did. If this was supposed to be an exact mirroring of WWII, then we would not have a dynamic campaign or most of the ships that appear as targets since there would only really be one or two of them for the whole war. Like you said, it is a fun sim, and that should be enough.
As far as spelling goes, who knows how it is spelled in their native language. US atlases have misspelled the names of countries for years. I have gotten an earful from more than one person about it while visiting their countries. It is sometimes hard to translate from one language into another and get it exactly right. I am not making excuses for them, but it may be making an assumption to say they didn't do any reading on the subject.
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