Shortly after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April of 1942, the Japanese began planning for a decisive battle in the vicinity of Midway, to take place in June. The Coral Sea operation in May was ...
Yorktown’s damage was repaired in time to join in the decisive U.S. victory at Midway on June 4, 1942. After sorting out the air-to-air claims at Coral Sea, Hall was credited with one enemy ...
Lundstrom takes to task such noted historians as Samuel Eliot Morison, Fletcher Pratt, and Robert Heinl, for their omissions and distortions of the facts in recounting the attempted relief of Wake ...