The odds at the June 1942 battle favored the Japanese ... plan of attack that included an invasion of the Aleutian Islands as well as Midway. But such impractical agendas dispersed the much ...

Midway, the second carrier battle of 1942, was the most decisive of the war ... The Japanese plan was to seize Midway Island quickly and then advance down the chain of islands the thousand or so miles ...

The carriers were among seven ships that went down in the Battle of Midway, a major air and ... and when Japanese troops arrived at the islands on 4 June 1942, they found the Americans waiting ...

Ever since the Battle of Midway in June 1942, American forces had been on the offensive, moving across the central and south Pacific. Step by step, island by island, they had pushed Japanese ...

On June 4, 1942, at nearly the same time the Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor, American and Japanese forces converged on Midway Island to fight the battle which would be seen later as the turning ...

Key to the naval conflicts at Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Wake Island ... Midway is considered the turning ...

Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific island-hopping campaign. Their first target was Guadalcanal, an island some ...

The Soryu was sunk in the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Mr. Yoshioka was at home on leave at the time. On the island of Peleliu, he contracted malaria and was evacuated for treatment before it ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

a multi-day battle that would see more than 1,700 Americans killed, began on this day in history, Nov. 12, 1942. Guadalcanal ...