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THE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY -- IN TWO MINUTES!

4,956 views · Published 8 January 2017 · 1:58 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: PeriscopeFilm · 2017 · Education

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Enhanced historic newsreel about the Battle of Midway, one of the most crucial moments in the Pacific Campaign of WWII. The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."

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