re: Midway Atoll Today - site of Battle of Midway - June 4-6, 1942 - pics

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Note: Midway not even mentioned. Midway wasn’t even the biggest naval battle between Japan and the US in WW2, although it might have been the most consequential of that war.

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I would submit that Guadalcanal was more consequential. We lose Guadalcanal and the war is a lot longer and more costly, Midway notwithstanding.

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I would submit that Guadalcanal was more consequential. We lose Guadalcanal and the war is a lot longer and more costly, Midway notwithstanding.

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There is no Guadalcanal without the US winning decisively at Midway as it was our first major offensive battle of the Pacific and only two months after Midway. Even if Japan only loses 2 instead of 4 carriers, that invasion doesn't take place, as even reaching the Solomons would've been a suicide mission.

I don't think there is any doubt we don't eventually win the war in the Pacific, but it would've been at least a year if not years of the Japs assraping the entire Pacific if we don't win at Midway.

The amount of American lives saved by victory in the Battle of Midway and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can not be underestimated.

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I’m the medical provider when I’m here

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I remember now….you have posted about being a medical provider on a few other remote islands, too. You have a damn interesting life!