Battle of Midway

When

4 Jun 1942 – 7 Jun 1942

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

30.00° N, 178.00° W

Description

1942 World War II naval battle

Naval

yes

War

World War II

1942 major naval battle in World War II

The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Japanese Combined Fleet under the command of Isoroku Yamamoto suffered a decisive defeat by two carrier strike groups of the U.S. Pacific Fleet near Midway Atoll, about 1,300 mi northwest of Oahu.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Battle of Midway – An American naval victory halts the Japanese advance in the Pacific”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht um Midway setzt sich die United States Navy im Pazifikkrieg gegenüber der japanischen Marine durch”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Batalla de Midway, punto de inflexión en el frente del Pacífico de la Segunda Guerra Mundial”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “美日海軍在中途島大戰。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ミッドウェー海戦（ - 6月7日）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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