Japanese naval aircraft — the best in the world ... assembly lines in numbers unmatched by the Japanese. During the Battle of Midway itself, Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo fatally hesitated ...

the Japanese Navy never knew how many American carriers were at sea that June. Readers who want a comprehensive study of this battle, and do not crave the minute-by-minute excitement of falling bombs ...

It was the first setback for the Japanese navy since the attack on Pearl Harbor and forced ... Part Three of the book deals with the Battle of Midway, a stunning US victory, due in part to good luck, ...

If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the most decisive battles of the Second World War could have ended up ...

Ever since the Battle of Midway in June 1942, American forces had been on the offensive, moving across the central and south Pacific. Step by step, island by island, they had pushed Japanese ...