[moonshot925]

4 Japanese fleet carriers sunk in one day. Kaga, Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu. 4 June 1942 was the death of the IJN.

[Former Proud Canadian]

The day the war turned in the Pacific. The Japanese were on the defensive from this point on.

I don't know what would have happened if the Midway came out differently. I guess the final outcome would have been the same, but it might have taken longer.

[rlmorel]

Almost the death of the IJN...they still had enough to kick our butts at Savo Island a couple of months later, and continued to make life tough for another six months to a year, but...I do think Midway spelled doom for japanese military aviation.

They continued to throw their best pilots back into the meat grinder until they were all gone. We rotated our best pilots out, and over time, that was the difference.

Even as early as the battle of the Eastern Solomons or Cape Esperance, gunners on ships noticed a clear change in the quality of the Japanese pilots they encountered, fighters, bombers and torpedo planes. Earlier in the war, they had been tenacious and good. They became, even that early, much less persistent and noticeably less capable.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Fortune was in our favor on this day.

Good fortune, and untold bravery.

[fella]

Made during the war so that not a lot of detail could be included but A Wing And A Prayer gives a pretty fair accounting of events leading up to and during Midway.