15 Minutes Changed the World

The first week of June is crammed full of historic military anniversaries. We commemorate the Allied D-Day assault against the Nazis on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The Israeli-Arab 6-Day War began on June 5, 1967. Israeli jet pilots destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981. The Marshall Plan was introduced as a Cold War defense, on June 5, 1947. 

Yet a US Navy battle this same week, just 6 months after Pearl Harbor and a full 2 years before D-Day, goes largely unnoticed, yet it certainly represents the pivotal event in world military history.

It is the Battle of Midway, which occurred over a three-day period, June 4-6, 1942.  See Montville Blog.

Comments

[L. Benson]

I did not know this. Thank you for a very educational article. I hope our teachers will mention this event in the coming years.