Midway Battle Marked the Turning Point in WWII Nearly 2,000 people gathered on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific to honor those who served in the Battle of Midway 65 years ago. That was ...

The Battle of Midway, fought 70 years ago this week, was an extraordinary victory for the U.S. Navy and proved to be the strategic pivot in World War II's Pacific theater of operations.

“Defensively, [Midway] was a turning point for us,” added Norberg. “Offensively, it was a turning point for Japan. In the next action, the Battle of Guadalcanal, we were on the offensive. After six ...

Reporting from midway atoll — The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in World War II’s Pacific theater. The remote atoll where thousands died is now a fragile sanctuary for millions of ...

The Battle of Midway was an Allied naval victory and a major turning point in World War II. The battle was fought between Japanese and American carrier forces near the Midway Atoll, a territory of ...

The Battle of Midway unfolded over four days in June 1942, some 1,100 miles west of Hawaii, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The war would drag on for another three years ...

Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war," so says an inscription on the World War Two Memorial in Washington, referring to the Battle of Midway. It became the pivotal Naval ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The Battle of Midway is known as the turning point in the Pacific War in World War II. The United States lost 300 lives that day, but the Japanese lost 5,000. NAS Pensacola held ...

Rochefort, who died in 1976, was a mid-level intelligence officer whose small unit in Hawaii provided the analysis that led to the U.S. naval victory in the Battle of Midway—the turning point of ...