Battle of Midway | Significance & Outcome

Battle of Midway (June 3–6, 1942), World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. The American victory effectively ended Japan’s ability to prosecute an offensive war in the Pacific.

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