[LS]

They are not "obviously wrong," and since you haven't read them, you are clueless. They are obviously right in that Japan could not even replace the pilots lost at Midway, and couldn't repair the ships they lost at Coral Sea in time to be effective. There is a difference between forcing the last surrender and having your enemy be unable to win. Napoleon could not win after reaching Moscow. Forcing his surrender took quite a while.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.
"They conclude, rightly in my view, that even if the U.S. had lost at Midway, the war in the Pacific only would have lasted one more year"

The quotation marks mean that I'm quoting you.

History proves that they, and you, are wrong. Yes, the final outcome was inevitable but the war did drag on for three more years after the the Japanese expansion ended at Midway and they never stopped us anywhere again. Whatever the strategic situation, the war did not end in a year and our people still fought and died in places like Iwo. They would have probably fought and died in Japan had Truman not dropped the bomb, and he still had to do it twice to end the war.

Give it a rest, LS.

Michael Frazier