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 ...

‘Never Let Go’ is a predictable, overly silly horror tale of a protective mother. Halle Berry plays... ‘Transformers One’: New Animated Robo-Prequel is much more than meets the eye. The ...

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 ...

World War II was one of the bloodiest conflicts that this world has ever known, with nearly 15 million military personnel and ...

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 ...

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

Aviators from Midway flew cover for the Tachen Islands evacuation during the Quemoy-Matsu crisis. Following modernization in ...

SNAKE ISLAND, Ukraine—This rocky patch of land about 20 miles off the coast still bears the scars of the relentless Ukrainian assault to take it back. The Black Sea island is littered with the ...