Seventy-five years ago (June 4-7, 1942), the astonishing American victory at the Battle of Midway changed the course of the Pacific War. Just six months after the catastrophic Japanese surprise ...

The Petrel crew hopes to find and survey all the wreckage from the battle, an effort that could add new details about Midway to history books. Earlier this year, they discovered the USS Hornet ...

Shortly after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April of 1942, the Japanese began planning for a decisive battle in the vicinity of Midway, to take place in June. The Coral Sea operation in May was ...

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The Akagi aircraft carrier was sunk during the Battle of Midway, during which hundreds of Japanese and US sailors died The Petrel also worked with the US ...

One of the biggest battles ever fought in the region was the Battle of Midway. (The World War II battles that had by far the most casualties, every major battle ranked.) The post Every Warship and ...

So very fortunate are we that those elements were present recording everything associated with Operation Overlord and the Battle of Midway. History is replete with improbabilities. Satellite ...

The Battle of Midway unfolded over four days in June 1942, some 1,100 miles west of Hawaii, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The war would drag on for another three years ...

Play the game to re-enact the Battle of Hastings, which took place on 14 October, 1066. Then find out more about what caused the confrontation that changed the face of England, as well as the ...

The battle opened with one of the most celebrated individual contests in Scottish history. Sighting a group of Scots withdrawing into the wood, the English vanguard, made up of heavy cavalry ...

Although the commissioning of the USS Midway, or the CVB-41, was on September 10, 1945, just days after Japan’s formal ...

He was Lieut. Randolph Dickins Jr., of Bradenton, Fla., 6 ft. 2 in., a hero of the Battle of Midway, who had been a combat-fatigue patient at the Navy’s Bethesda for ten weeks, after 42 months ...