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The Battle of Midway
Midway Atoll, Pacific Ocean
- Japanese carriers were sunk at Midway
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- Japanese carriers were sunk at Midway
On the other side of the world, on 4–7 June 1942, the US Navy destroyed Japanese aircraft carriers near Midway Atoll. It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
The Americans had broken the Japanese code and knew the enemy's plans. Within minutes their dive-bombers set three Japanese carriers ablaze, and later a fourth. After that Japan could no longer advance in the Pacific as it had before.
The war raged across the planet: while the enemy's summer offensive was beginning in southern Russia, the fate of another front was being decided on the ocean.
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