What carrier has the flight to nowhere at Midway?
What carrier has the flight to nowhere at Midway? The flight of the USS Hornet Air Group (HAG) on the morning of 4 June 1942 has been one of the BOMRT's most frequently and intensely reviewed subjects.
Did Japan think they could beat the US?
For 2,000 years Japan had never been defeated. There was no word for surrender in the Japanese dictionary. And although the Japanese government never believed it could defeat the United States, it did intend to negotiate an end to the war on favorable terms.