Remembering 'America's most impressive naval victory'
On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway ended after a four-day naval fight between the U.S. and Japan
yesterday at 6:00 am
Ed Friedrich
Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wash.
BREMERTON — Six months after Japan destroyed much of the Navy's fleet at Pearl Harbor, it planned to finish the Americans off at Midway atoll, push them out of Hawaii and back to the mainland. After conquering much of the Pacific, the Japanese seemed unstoppable.
Then Americans broke Japanese codes, learned their plans to lure the remaining U.S. ships out and destroy them, and crafted their own trap. By time the four-day Battle of Midway ended on June 7, 1942, — 75 years ago — Japan had lost four aircraft carriers, a heavy cruiser, 248 planes, more than 3,000 sailors and control of the Pacific.
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