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Miracle at Midway?
At 10 o’clock on the morning of June 4, 1942, the Japanese were winning the Pacific War; an hour later, three Japanese aircraft carriers were on fire and sinking.
By Craig L. Symonds, World War II Magazine
Trial by fire in the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea was a tactical defeat for the U.S. Navy that also proved to be a significant strategic victory.
By Joseph H. Alexander, Military History Quarterly
That time American planes fought American planes
The strange story of Task Force 34.
By John W. Lambert, Aviation History Magazine
The incredible life and terrible death of the Navy’s first World War II ace
By the end of the action, he had downed five of the attacking Japanese planes and damaged a sixth, approaching close enough to the aircraft carrier Lexington that some of its gunners had fired on him.
By Geoffrey Norman, Military History Magazine