Discover how the U.S. Navy defeated Japan's fleet to check Japanese expansion in the Battle of Midway
In June 1942, one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, U.S. naval airplanes stopped the advance of the Japanese Imperial Navy near Midway Island. From “The Second World War: Allied Victory” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Transcript
[Music in]
NARRATOR: A month later there was Midway [music out]. Twenty-seven American ships engaged a hundred and twenty-seven Japanese, and the odds looked impossible. But when it was all over, the Japanese had suffered their greatest naval defeat in history. Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific [music]--Japanese expansion had been checked.
NARRATOR: A month later there was Midway [music out]. Twenty-seven American ships engaged a hundred and twenty-seven Japanese, and the odds looked impossible. But when it was all over, the Japanese had suffered their greatest naval defeat in history. Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific [music]--Japanese expansion had been checked.
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