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4
Juni
1942

Battle of Midway shifts the Pacific balance

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📅 4 Juni 1942 📍

At Midway, U.S. forces destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and checked Japan’s rapid expansion. The battle’s strategic importance is clear, but its familiar carrier-centered narrative can obscure island communities, colonial bases, and the regional populations who lived through the campaigns that followed.

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Chester W. Nimitz

Japanese and U.S. sailors and aircrews

Organisaties in dit Evenement

United States Navy

Imperial Japanese Navy