In the six months between the attack on Pearl Harbor and the "Miracle at Midway," the nation unified and was mobilizing. The combination of Nimitz's warriors stopping the Japanese advance in 1942, and the parallel stubby pencil work in Washington, allowed the United States Navy to capitalize on the momentum gained at Midway. To get the complete picture of the Battle of Midway and what it meant for the war effort, you need to know what happened behind the scenes in Washington, 5,523 miles away.
But, instead, what the Midway miracle did was buy a little more time for America's war machine to get up to full speed. Though Nimitz's scrappy fighters managed to stop the Japanese advance, their massive war machine was far from defeated.Īrguably the victory could have easily been in vain if that battlefield momentum was not coupled with a fast-moving mobilization back on the home front. It would take four more years to defeat the Japanese juggernaut. A month later, those forces swept north, licking their wounds, and stopped the northern Japanese counterpunch aimed squarely in our Pacific backyard. Chester Nimitz's gritty forces stopped the Japanese advance in the South Pacific with May 1942's slugfest during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Navy's stunning victory at the Battle of Midway against overwhelming changed the course of World War II paved the opening miles of the road to victory in the Pacific war.
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