The Battle of Midway
4th June 1942: The historic clash between the Japanese and the US Navy main carrier groups marks a turning point in the Pacific war
Before the war Admiral Yamamoto, Japan’s leading naval strategist and commander of the Combined Fleet, had said:
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will ru…
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