Major conflict1942

Battle of Midway

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Pacific Ocean

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Naval battle reversing Japanese advantage in Pacific theater through American intelligence and carrier tactics.

Belligerents2

United States
Japan

ON THE MAPEmpire of Japan (peak, 1942)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Midway (1942). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-midway · Sources & methodology