This decisive naval battle 75 years ago not only changed the course of World War II, but also established the aircraft carrier as the principal strategic weapon of the United States Navy.

Midway Atoll, pictured in 2002, was the site of a major turning point in World War II’s Pacific theater. A new battle is pitting preservation of its vaunted military history against the ...

June 4 marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. — -- On June 4, 1942, the heavily outnumbered US and Japan clashed in an epic nearly four-day battle off Midway Island, a tiny atoll ...

June 4 marks the 74th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, the greatest naval battle in American history and the turning point of World War II ... Midway is without equal for significance and drama.

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A Beach vet recalls losing his Newport News-built ship 65 years ago. When retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Otis Kight remembers the Battle of Midway, he remembers the silence. A deafening silence. The 83 ...

A Beach vet recalls losing his Newport News-built ship 65 years ago.When retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Otis Kight remembers the Battle of Midway, he remembers the silence.A deafening silence.The 83-year ...

Reviewing Battle of Midway lessons learned 75 years after the naval victory turned the tide in the Pacific provides a link to understanding the maritime challenges of the future, writes retired ...

Hastily repaired after suffering serious damage in the Battle of the Coral Sea less than a month earlier, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown shouldn’t have been ordered out of the safety of Pe… ...

Last year, my father passed away at age 100, one of the last surviving U.S. Navy dive-bombers to have fought at the Battle of Midway, the so-called turning point in the Pacific War 75 years ago ...