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78 Years ago TODAY...Battle of Midway...always remember.
05 June 2020 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 06/05/2020 3:43:06 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Japan; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: battleofmidway; empireofjapan; godsgravesglyphs; japan; worldwareleven
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1 posted on 06/05/2020 3:43:06 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

Actually it started on 04 June 1942


2 posted on 06/05/2020 3:43:39 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: US Navy Vet

The Imperial Japanese Navy never recovered for the loss of their carriers at Midway. There was a lot of fighting left to be done, obviously, but after this we were on the offensive and the IJN was doomed.


3 posted on 06/05/2020 3:46:55 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: US Navy Vet

If you haven’t seen the 2019 film Midway, get the DVD or stream it now! One of my favorites.


4 posted on 06/05/2020 3:50:49 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Amazing hunches - Amazing courage - Amazing victory !


5 posted on 06/05/2020 3:55:00 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: US Navy Vet

We lost the Lady Lex (April) then Yorktown at Midway but they turned the Japanese around in Coral Sea and saved Midway. Plus 4 Jap carriers destroyed and a light support carrier (at Coral Sea). At the time it was hugh. The Navy was finding its sea legs. Tomorrow in 1944 we got going in Europe. June was a hot month in a couple places during WWII.


6 posted on 06/05/2020 3:55:34 PM PDT by Equine1952
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Naval Heritage | Jonathan Parshall: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway [2014]

Naval Heritage | Jonathan Parshall: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

7 posted on 06/05/2020 3:55:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: US Navy Vet

There is a long Youtube account of the battle done by, I think a German who studies these battles in depth. At the end he summarizes the reasons for the win or loss.

He gives the usual reasons but one which caught my attention was just how daring the Americans were and how the Japanese were not at all expecting it.


8 posted on 06/05/2020 3:55:54 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Bttt.

5.56mm


9 posted on 06/05/2020 3:57:13 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: Ciexyz

Re that movie .. gotta hand it to that leftard who played Nimitz - he did a respectable job with the role.

(drawing a blank on his name ..)


10 posted on 06/05/2020 3:57:22 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Ciexyz

Excellent film!


11 posted on 06/05/2020 3:57:35 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: US Navy Vet

Well, if you meant 78 years +1 day — you’d be correct.

The Battle of Midway was on 6-4-2020


12 posted on 06/05/2020 3:57:40 PM PDT by Calif Conservative (Ronald Reagan fan forever)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Their defeat at Midway was so devastating and humiliating, the Japanese public wasn't told the entire story until 1955 -- ten year after the war ended.

13 posted on 06/05/2020 3:59:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Today’s Democrats would be trying to surrender already, getting on a knee to apologize for their racist conduct towards Japan.


14 posted on 06/05/2020 4:04:01 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Ciexyz

If you haven’t seen the 2019 film Midway, get the DVD or stream it now! One of my favorites.

Yep quiet excellent. Much better than the all star Heston verson IMO! Very entertaining!


15 posted on 06/05/2020 4:05:33 PM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: US Navy Vet

“78 Years ago TODAY...Battle of Midway...always remember.”

Remember what. Since the government took control of the education systems and only hired liberals, these kids today have no clue of American History is about and the sacrifices made by those who sacrificed themselves to keep us free.


16 posted on 06/05/2020 4:26:49 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: tomkat
Woody Harrelson (?!) played Admiral Nimitz. Wow. Of course Alec Baldwin played Jimmy Doolittle in Pearl Harbor.
17 posted on 06/05/2020 4:30:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: US Navy Vet
Back when we actually had a determined, skilled, & heroic Navy (Although pretty decimated at the time)... The last couple of decades has "sunk" that stature...

Having lived through WWII, I have no doubt that "today's" U.S. citizenry would have folded after Dec 7th and sued for peace by any means necessary...

Now the world is slowly being divided up and absorbed by the moslem devils and the communists (including both the ChiComs and the worldwide communist parties of which the CPUSA and the Democrat party are a major part)

18 posted on 06/05/2020 4:34:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Rummyfan; tomkat

I was pleasantly surprised with Woody Harrelson’s performance in Midway. It is the only decent performance I can credit him with other than being the drunken mentor in the Hunger Games trilogy.


19 posted on 06/05/2020 4:42:50 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Equine1952
Tomorrow in 1944 we got going in Europe.

Actually, Allied forces took Rome on June 4th. It was largely overshadowed by D-Day.

20 posted on 06/05/2020 4:50:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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