THE U.S. had not merely won a great battle in the Pacific and averted a great disaster: The U.S. had proved its skill and might in a new form of warfare at sea. For, in the Battle of Midway, U.S. forces met and drove back the first full battle fleet, organized on the grand scale for modern war, which any nation has yet put to sea." So said TIME (June 15, 1942), sizing up a naval battle just fought off Midway Island in the Pacific. This week, on the 18th anniversary of the battle,...
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