Midway, the second carrier battle of 1942, was the most decisive of the war ... The Japanese plan was to seize Midway Island quickly and then advance down the chain of islands the thousand or so miles ...

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 ...