The Battle of Midway took place six months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
The Japanese navy aimed to take control of the U.S. patrol plane base in a surprise attack at Midway Atoll, a tiny group of islands roughly halfway between the U.S. mainland and Asia. The country also wanted to destroy what was left of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.The five-day battle was fought about 200 miles off the group of islands. Besides sinking the Akagi, the Kaga and two other Japanese aircraft carriers, U.S. forces shot down more than 250 Japanese airplanes.
In this photo provided by the Ocean Exploration Trust, the aircraft crane of the carrier USS Yorktown still stands at the aft end of the ship's island on Sept. 10, 2023. Footage from remote submersibles taken three miles under the Pacific Ocean is giving the world the first detailed glimpse of three World War II aircraft carriers that sunk in the pivotal Battle of Midway, which marked a shift in control of the Pacific naval theater from Japanese to U.S. forces.
Once freed with the help of a fellow sailor, a life jacket was taped over his injured shoulder and he held on to another to swim more than 3 miles to a waiting ship. He said the journey took about six hours. The action “speaks to the dedication of the crew to save their vessel in the last and final moments of that ship’s service,” he said.
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