The Battle of Midway in June 1942 is regarded as a decisive U.S. victory in the war against Japan during WWII — and on this day in history, June 7, 1942, the Midway naval battle ended.
The aircraft carrier Akagi was found in nearly 18,000 feet of water more than 1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor; insight from naval historian Frank Thompson., June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway — regarded as one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan — came to an end. The battle was fought between Japanese and American carrier forces near the Midway Atoll, a territory of the United States in the central Pacific, from June 4-7, 1942.
In this June 4, 1942, file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Astoria steams by USS Yorktown , shortly after the carrier had been hit by three Japanese bombs in the Battle of Midway. In the 1930s, Midway became a stopover for Pan American Airways’"flying clippers" — seaplanes crossing the ocean on their five-day transpacific passage, the same source indicates."The Imperial Japanese Navy planned to use it to secure their sphere of influence in the Pacific theater of the war," according to National Geographic.
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