[BenLurkin]

“Look at that flat-top burn!”

Oh wait. That’s Midway.

Never mind.

[NonValueAdded]

LOL, read it that way myself at first.

[rdl6989]

I misread it that way too.

[SunkenCiv]

Just to be *really* confusing, there was a Battle of Medway in the 17th century as well. ;^) Annnnd, it was in June.

[SunkenCiv]

For a nitpicker, he does a great presentation. BTW, of COURSE Midway was the turning point of the Pacific War, because air power was crucial, and the Japanese lost most of their best pilots, planes, and their four largest carriers, and after that they were unable to maintain the initiative in the sw Pacific and could no longer hang on to their land based air bases. BTW, June -- again? What's the deal with June? Lots of men wanting to postpone their weddings?

As part of The General Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series on World War II, hear author Jonathan Parshall discuss decisive strategies of both the Imperial Navy and Allied Navy during the Battle of Midway in World War II. This event was a "Turning Point" of the war that ultimately led to a Japanese naval defeat in which they were never able to fully recover from.

Mason Lecture | Jonathan Parshall: The 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway | June 8, 2012 | The National WWII Museum.