Midway turns the Pacific war
June 4, 1942
Forewarned by codebreakers, American dive bombers caught the Japanese carrier fleet re-arming its planes at Midway and sank four fleet carriers in six minutes. Japan lost the core of its naval air arm and its chance to win the Pacific war. From that summer on, it was a long slow American push back across a very large ocean.
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