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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy near Midway Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean from June 4–7, 1942, during the Second World War. This battle is widely regarded as the turning point of the war in the Pacific, effectively halting the seemingly unstoppable expansion of Japanese naval power. The outcome was heavily influenced by cryptanalysis and the unpredictable at…