US Navy History: Midway
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
This is a work in progress, please forgive...
The battle of Midway is perhaps the biggest turning point is naval history since the building of the Monitor, or the first successful ship-shore flight in 1911 at NAS North Island, which opened the seas for more powerful, durable warships, and the ability to combine two forces into one powerful war machine respectively. The marriage of ships and planes created a mobile power capable of extending out great distances and putting power where it was needed.
The battle of Midway was a big sucess and proved that in order to have a great Navy a country must maintain a large airwing forward deployed on advanced aircraft carriers. Though the battle itself may have been only a show of power the United States was able with careful planning and decision making able to decide how to attack and thus take the Japanese foothold in the pacific. With five aircraft carriers left and Japanese rapidly running out of resources this battle was the camel that broke the sraw's back!
The battle of Midway is perhaps the biggest turning point is naval history since the building of the Monitor, or the first successful ship-shore flight in 1911 at NAS North Island, which opened the seas for more powerful, durable warships, and the ability to combine two forces into one powerful war machine respectively. The marriage of ships and planes created a mobile power capable of extending out great distances and putting power where it was needed.
The battle of Midway was a big sucess and proved that in order to have a great Navy a country must maintain a large airwing forward deployed on advanced aircraft carriers. Though the battle itself may have been only a show of power the United States was able with careful planning and decision making able to decide how to attack and thus take the Japanese foothold in the pacific. With five aircraft carriers left and Japanese rapidly running out of resources this battle was the camel that broke the sraw's back!
