THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY

24 MAY− 5 JUNE 1942 25 MAY 1942 Small Japanese fleet leaves Hokkaido island bound for the Aleutians off the coast of Alaska. 27 MAY 1942 USS Yorktown returns to Pearl Harbor for repairs following Coral Sea battle. 5 JUNE 1942 United States formally declares war on Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. 7 JUNE 1942 German army begins its final assault on the Crimean port of Sevastopol. 11 JUNE 1942 German submarines begin a minelaying programme in US coastal waters. 12 JUNE 1942 Anglo-Soviet agreement on creating a “Second Front” published. The Japanese failure at the Battle of the Coral Sea confirmed the navy commander-in-chief, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in his conviction that a decisive action should be taken against the United States Pacific Fleet to prevent further American activity in the…

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