{"id":36003,"date":"2013-06-04T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36003"},"modified":"2013-06-04T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:04:38","slug":"battle-of-midway-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36003","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Midway Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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509th Bob writes to remind us that today is the 71st Anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Midway which lasted from June 4th – June 7th 1942. About six months after Pearl Harbor and seven weeks after the Doolittle Raid, the Japanese sought to extend their security perimeter a bit by taking Midway Island and drawing the Navy into an ambush. The US had, however broken the Japanese Naval codes and knew their plan and Nimitz was waiting for Yamamoto.<\/p>\n

When the smoke cleared, four Japanese carriers were at the bottom of the sea – the entire strength of the task force–Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, with 322 aircraft and over five thousand sailors. The Japanese also lost the heavy cruiser Mikuma. American losses included 147 aircraft and more than three hundred seamen.<\/a><\/p>\n

Analysts often point to Japanese aircraft losses at Midway as eliminating the power of the Imperial Navy’s air arm, but in fact about two-thirds of air crews survived. More devastating was the loss of trained mechanics and aircraft ground crews who went down with the ships. Some historians see Midway as the turning point in the Pacific theater of the war, after which Americans rode straight to Tokyo; others view it as a cusp in the war, after which initiative hung in the balance, to swing toward the Allies in the Guadalcanal campaign. Either way, Midway ranks as a truly decisive battle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it was a pretty exciting movie, convinced me that I didn’t want to join the Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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