[Figment]

“The battles of Coral Sea and Midway (mid 1942) stunned the Japanese and it was then that they realized they made a grave error”

Yes it was a BIG mistake. The USA handled them while maintaining the Europe first strategy and still almost wiped them off the planet

[central_va]

Two things, their aircraft lacked armor protection and we also broke the IJN code( their “enigma”). Midway was a miracle we should gave lost that battle according to all the computer simulations of the battle.