"Anniversary of Midway, June 4 through 7, 1942" Topic
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| Garde de Paris | 04 Jun 2016 10:25 a.m. PST |
Taken from the article in Wikipedia:
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.[7][8][9] Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."[10] The "Miracle at Midway," and the American/French victory at Yorktown in 1781, keep me humble – and a believer in God! GdeP |
| MHoxie | 05 Jun 2016 2:55 a.m. PST |
Read "The Shattered Sword": link For the Japanese to win would have been *almost* a miracle. |
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