Battle of Midway

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DateThe battle started on the 4th of June 1942 and ended on 7th of June 1942.

Approximately one month after the battle of the coral sea and six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

1942

LocationNear Midway Atoll

28 12’N 177 21’W in the pacific ocean

Why It Was Important To The War

The United States had suffered since the bombing of Pearl Harbor

The Japanese aimed to control Midway as a position from which its air force could launch further attacks on

Hawaii. The victory proved that Allied naval forces might could overcome Japan's. ---This was the turning point of the war in the pacific.---

America Japan1 Carrier Sunk 4 Carriers Sunk1 Destroyer Sunk 1 Cruiser Sunk150 Aircraft 248 Carrier AircraftDestroyed Destroyed307 People Killed 2,013 People

Killed

Important Facts

• It was The Battle That Turned the Tide of the Pacific War• It was a naval and aircraft battle of World War II• Land and carrier-based American planes decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on

its way to invade the Midway Islands• American commanders; Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Flecher, Raymond A.

Spruance.• Japanese commanders ; Yamaoto Isoroku, Kondo Nobutake, Nagumo Chichi.• Admiral Nimitz had broken the Japanese code so we knew when and were the

Japanese would come yet they did not know we knew.• Thus, after they bombed the island, when their planes were sitting on their

decks being refueled and reloaded, US planes found them and attacked.• It ended Japan's power over the U.S. The balance of sea power in the Pacific

shifted from the Japan to equity between America and Japan, and soon after the U.S. and their allies took sole control of the waters in the mid Pacific.

• It was the closest the Japanese ever get to the USA in the pacific

Who Won

American victory June 7th 1942

The End

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