It is a shame that most people alive today in America have never even heard of the Battle of Midway, the most decisive naval battle in history.
Watch the movie every year on the anniversary. My 6 kids, ages, 12-27, their spouses and, soon our grandchildren when they’re older, all know of the heroism and valor of those who fought in this battle. It’s hard to imagine what we’d be if we didn’t guess right and Carey the day.
It is arguable but stacked up against Salamis (480 BC Persians vs Greeks) or Lepanto (1571 Ottomans vs Catholic Europe), I don't think so. Remember that IJN Admiral Yamamoto, himself, said that Japan would have 6 months of free rein in the Pacific but then the power of the USA would start to hit back. If Japan had won at Midway, we had Hawaii at peril and the supply route to ANZAC in grave danger. Yet, even then, the US & Allied Submarines were starting to be felt and Japan's power was stretched very thin. US Technology in aircraft alone was becoming equal in 1942 and became superior in 1943 and forward.