re: Was the battle of Midway the biggest F U of all time?

The atomic bombs were another big F U to the Japs. I wonder what would have changed if the bombs were available when we were taking all those islands.
30,000 japs dug into a little island? Drop a little boy and end that shite real quick

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The whole Pacific Fleet was just destroyed at Pearl Harbor

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Fortunately for us, our carriers were out to sea that day.

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then a few months later we kick their arse and stop their expansion

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Not hardly, we lost well over 110,000 troops and another 250,000 wounded just in the Pacific/Asian theater.

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Most of the war effort was focused on the European theater.

MacArthur and Nimitz decided on a 'island hopping' strategy to defeat the Japs that took years.

Think of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Midway(that you mention in the OP), Soloman Island, the Philippines...it was a long, bloody costly war.

The Japanese soldier nor the top brass did NOT surrender.

At Iwo Jima, there were 21,000 Japanese troops defending that piece of volcanic ash, a little over 200 Japanese soldiers were captured or surrendered.
They were very fanatical and would fight to the death.

The premise of the OP is correct, Midway in the Pacific theater was huge for us.

Exactly, something about those pesky litlle Carriers, and all but 2 Battle ships saw action later in the war. Japs achieved surprise at Pearl, that was really about all they accomplished in the long run.

One of my top 10 of all time movies. That music...ta-ta-taaaaa!

i think the soundtrack is John Williams, like every other movie

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Hal Halbrook almost lost the war when he told Henry Fonda not to go after the fourth Japanese carrier.

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There was the problem.

He WANTED that fourth carrier.

As far as importance in naval battles, Tsushima just called in to say "Herro".

this guy knows a thing or two about grilled japs.