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The Battle of Midway in thePacific ocean.
The Japs would have crippled USA's fleet if it hadn't been for one cryptographer that figured out their plans only a few days before they were to attack. As a result, the Japanese Navy, consisting of 5 large aircraft carriers, and a number of destroyers and cruisers were crippled and/or destroyed. Along with these ships, a huge percentage of experienced Zero fighter pilots were killed (huge loss because these planes depended on manoeverability to survive in battle) leaving no one to train new fighter pilots. Also the designer of the Zero fighter died on the flagship, the Yamato.
This pretty much fucked japan's hopes of conquest, and is lucky (i think) for the americans, because california was basically unmanned, and japan would have overrun the whole area.
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