Why The United States Won The Battle Of Midway

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A long-standing debate in American history is when the United states gained the upper hand against Japan in World War. Some say it happened at the Battle of Midway, while others claim it to be Guadalcanal. Both had their significances and contributions to the American victory, but the victory at Guadalcanal is likely to not have occurred had Japan won the Battle of Midway. The American victory at Midway did several things for them, firstly they gained morale and momentum in the pacific, they essentially destroyed the Japanese navy’s surface fleet, and they secured Midway Atoll. When combined, the resulting outcome spells out the start of Japan’s failure to when the war. The war in the Pacific against Japan was fought largely by carrier and …show more content…

The Japanese lost more than a bunch of ships and a bunch of airplanes, and a bunch of men. Experience is what wins’ wars. You can have the biggest guns and the best planes, but if you lack the men with enough training and experience to be an effective combatant, then there no sense in having those guns and those airplanes because the experienced fighters on the other side will just make quick and easy work of them, which was often the case through the Pacific after the Battle of Midway. After Midway, the Japanese just lacked the highly-experienced commanders, pilots, tacticians, and shipman to fight the Americans and win. Midway was the punch that turned the Americans in favor of winning the war, and Guadalcanal was the knockout punch that would strip the Japanese of any chance of winning the war. The only thing the Japanese could do after Guadalcanal was defend their outposts as the Americans proceeded with their island-hopping campaign with an ultimate goal of fighting them all the way back to the Japanese

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