A base on Midway would provide an "unsinkable ... The Japanese plan was to seize Midway Island quickly and then advance down the chain of islands the thousand or so miles to Hawaii sinking any US ...
Just six months after the catastrophic Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. crushed the Imperial Japanese Navy off Midway Island (about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu), sinking ...
From March 31 to April 10, 1942, the Japanese Striking Force—the same carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor—attacked Royal Navy bases in Ceylon (now Sri ... the two fleets move into the waters off ...