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The final conclusion was that Midway was the decisive victory of the war. Not because as is widely stated, that it broke the back of Japan’s naval forces.

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I agree with the author who gave a lecture at the Navy War College -— to a nearly empty auditorium, amazingly.

Midway was pivotal, but the Meat Grinder, ie, the Guadalcanal and associated actions, allowed the US to fight at what we do best, attriting the enemy. Which we did. He said that was the decisive victory because we chewed ‘em up.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Their constant Banzai charges contributed greatly to our chewing them up.