![]() Afterwards, despite Japanese gains on the Asian continent, the die was cast for the United States to prevail. And at Midway (June 4-7, 1942), US forces under Admirals Jack Fletcher and Raymond Spruance cut the heart out of the Japanese Navy, destroying four of the empire’s six heavy aircraft carriers. In the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8, 1942), the American fleet met the best the Empire could bring to the war and fought them to a standstill. By mid-June, the Japanese Imperial Navy was on the defensive. Within just six months of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy reversed the strategic trajectory of the war in the Pacific. ![]() Should we wonder, then, why fleets of Japanese and American warships spent so much time hunting in vain to locate the enemy? That failure, and other misjudgments and blunders in the Pacific War, loom large in Richard Freeman’s illuminating account of the first six crucial months of 1942, Whirlwind: War in the Pacific.Įstimated reading time: 7 minutes The six-month turnaround in US fortunes ![]() That’s seventeen times the territory of the United States, and ten times that of Russia, by far the largest nation on Earth. It’s the largest expanse of territory on the planet, spanning 63.8 million square miles.
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