What are facts about the Battle at Midway?

Answer 1

# A lessor naval force defeated a superior naval force # The US ability to crack Japan's radio code led to Japan's defeat. # Main ships were not battleships...they were aircraft carriers # The result stopped Japan's pacific expansion. # The result increase the morale of the U.S. Navy as well as the American people # By having the Carrier Yorktown available, it showed that the Pearl Harbor raid six-months earlier missed a main target - the dry repair docks. # The loss of four front-line carriers by Japan were due to not having any "CAP" or "Combat Air Patrol" (a/k/a an umbrella) over the carriers. # The victory by the U.S. at Midway became the turning point of the Pacific Theater in WWII. # By defeating Japan at Midway, the U.S. was able to begin the "island hopping" campaign to bring the war to Japan's home islands. # It was only the second time that a naval battle was fought by ships who never sighted each other (both sets of ship were over each others horizon). The first was the Battle of Coral Sea a month earlier.