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Midway in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Midway in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

5 records1 event labels3 people1942–1942

Historical events in Midway

1942

1942
Battle of Midway
Raymond Spruance · World War, 2nd

Commands the Enterprise-Hornet force

4 June 1942
Battle of Midway
Chester Nimitz · World War, 2nd

Provides the Japanese code which inform the Americans of the Japanese plans

4 June 1942
Battle of Midway
Frank Fletcher · World War, 2nd

Spruance & Fletcher sink 4 Japanese carriers with the loss of the Yorktown

4 June 1942
Battle of Midway
Raymond Spruance · World War, 2nd

Attacks Japanese carriers heading for Midway, lulls Nagumo into false sense of victory

6 June 1942
Battle of Midway
Raymond Spruance · World War, 2nd

Turns away from Yamamoto & frustrates the his plan for trapping US forces

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