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Undeterred by its losses in the Coral Sea, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) prepared to invade Midway Atoll- 1,300 miles northwest of Hawaii – in a final effort to defeat the US Pacific Fleet. Committing their largest naval operation of the war, the Japanese were unaware that the Americans had already decoded their messages andContinue reading “The end of Yorktown, 4th June 1942”