I just watched the docu on Midway-battles that changed the course of history. Done by a Brit and a pretty good job, although kinda an overview in ways.
Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js31XwYmeQg
Anyways, just to think, in 6 short months the USA came from being blindsided and losing all over the Pacific to sinking 4 carriers of the enemy, three of them in 5 minutes, and changing the power of the Pacific theater from Japan to the USA.
The Lord Almighty was with us in that one. A complete miracle with all the luck involved.
The Lord Almighty was with us in that one.
Chief among His blessings for that engagement - we managed to keep their command comm traffic cracked to where we could eavesdrop. It was not always so - there were times during the war when the Japs changed things up and there were dead periods with nothing new coming in. And, Yamamoto's planning - being caught with a bad dispersal of forces as he was expecting us to come into a (too elaborate) trap from a particular direction, but since we had a heads-up as to what he was doing we came from another. All of which gave us an edge that we badly needed.