During the Battle of Midway itself, Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo fatally hesitated in launching his air fleet. He was wedded to rigid doctrine about prepping his planes with the proper munitions.

Locating the enemy could be done by patrol planes reaching out from Midway or, failing that by letting them hit something first. In this case, the "something" was Midway. And that is precisely what ...

Something the Americans had over the Japanese was a force of 127 aircraft at Midway, giving U.S. forces air superiority via sheer numbers. The resulting battle cost Japan all of its carriers ...

A Japanese torpedo bomber takes off to attack an American aircraft carrier in this historic recreation! Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippine president, is arrested on International Criminal Court ...

Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War and, Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle ... capabilities allowed both the ...