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Originally Posted by tater
That Ken Burns WW2 show on PBS claimed the whole point of Midway was to take Hawaii, too, which is nonsense. They never had operational plans to move farther East. The point of Midway was to bait the US fleet into "decisive battle."
Like every single large battle the japs lost at sea, they failed to realize that they'd just had another of their "decisive battles"—and lost.
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Gods. What's the point of teaching research skills in schools if nobody uses them anymore?
