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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Factually, it looks like they've got 2 battleships, 1 heavy cruiser, 1 light cruiser, and 12 destroyers that weren't sunk during the battle. Do you want to reset and try again?

pretty much none of those were critical strategic elements in the pacific war

i mean he's not being nice but he's right

WWII Pacific was basically CV warfare and the US not only won midway but was out-producing japan in CV groups 10:1

what is fair to say is midway was a roll of the dice (specifically: we spotted them before they spotted us)

what is not fair is to say that had midway been a US defeat we'd have lost significant ground in the war

one of the big discoveries of WWII was that practically any island sufficed as a naval resupply point
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