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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
There wasn't one at the beginning of the war. There was nothing there but a seaplane base for commercial flying boats to refuel. (...) Midway's "harbor" consists of a shallow bay which can hold next to nothing. Even when I was there in 1970 our little destroyer had to tie up at one of the piers outside the bay.
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So yamamoto's plan there in 1942 was nothing but an attempt to lure US carriers out? I mean, the island itself, if captured, would change praticaly nothing?