[gridlock]

An amazing story today. When you think of the degree of luck involved in our victory at Midway, you can't help but credit Divine providence. If those dive bombers had not found the Japanese fleet at precisely that time, Midway would be remembered as a tremendous US defeat, and the US Navy could have been eliminated as a contender in the Pacific for a very long time.

We would have prevailed eventually, but at an even higher cost.

[SAMWolf]

Yep. God was on our side that day. All the things that had to fall into place that day. The precise timeing of events, the dive bombers and torpedo bombers arriving at the same place at the same time, the Japanese scout plane failure, the loaded planes on deck, the straggler DD that lead the Dive bombers to the carriers. Nothing short of a miracle.