For educational purposes
The stakes were no less dramatic when Americans met Japanese in this enthralling carrier-to-carrier battle of Midway.
Both sides knew that the victor would rule the Pacific for years to come.
In June 1942 the critical battle of the war in the Pacific was fought between American and Japanese carrier forces, separated by hundreds of miles of ocean.
The Battle of Midway was a significant landmark in naval history and a turning point in the war at sea.
For the first time battleships fled before aircraft carriers, and major fleet engagements took place well beyond the range of visual contact.
In the aftermath of the battle Japanese naval power was fatally damaged, and the ability to defend her new found maritime empire, seriously weakened.
Although heavily outnumbered, the American task force, through better intelligence appreciations, superior tactics and strategy, and remarkably good luck, achieved a stunning victory, destroying four Japanese carriers at the cost of only one of its own.
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