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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Midway
The was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the
Pacific Theater
of
World War II
. Between 3 and 7 June 1942, only six months after
Japan's
attack on Pearl Harbor
and one month after the
Battle of the Coral Sea
, the
United States Navy
under Admirals
Chester Nimitz
,
Frank Jack Fletcher
, and
Raymond A. Spruance
decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the
Imperial Japanese Navy
under Admirals
Isoroku Yamamoto
,
Chuichi Nagumo
, and
Nobutake Kondo
near
Midway Atoll
, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian
John Keegan
called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."
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