A Japanese held Midway island would have turned into another of many Japanese logistics disasters ... American admirals knew they would have to deal with the Japanese carriers eventually, especially ...

Seventy-five years ago (June 4-7, 1942), the astonishing American victory ... the U.S. crushed the Imperial Japanese Navy off Midway Island (about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu), sinking ...

Midway Island was handed over to the National Park ... but had the nation not held Midway during the June 4-7, 1942, Battle of Midway, World War II may have ended differently, making the Midway ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

Ever since the Battle of Midway in June 1942, American forces had been on the offensive, moving across the central and south Pacific. Step by step, island by island, they had pushed Japanese ...