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Category: History & Society
Date:
June 3, 1942 - June 6, 1942
Location:
Midway Islands
Pacific Ocean
Participants:
Japan
United States
Context:
Pacific War
World War II
Key People:
Marc A. Mitscher
Chester W. Nimitz
Yamamoto Isoroku
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Battle of Midway, (June 3–6, 1942), World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Together with the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific. The Midway Islands were claimed for the United States on July 5, 1859, by Capt. N.C. Brooks. The coral atoll—consisting of Eastern Island and the larger Sand Island to the west—has a total land area of just 2.4 square miles (6.2 square km). Midway was formally ...(100 of 3953 words)

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