Today we remember the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Midway on June 4-6, 1942. In just a couple of days, this battle changed the course of the war in
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.
These ordinary men, these citizen-soldiers like John Waldron, are the embodiment of the core values that have shaped our American identity – independence, guts, and devotion.