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document.write(' <p>THE OVERWHELMING VICTORY AT MIDWAY – THE FIFTH STAR OF FLETCHER – ');
document.write(' ORIGINATED CONSEQUENCES MOREOVER THE MOST FAVORABLE CALCULATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT ');
document.write(' AND PERHAPS IN THE FINAL RESULT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. </p> ');


document.write(' <p>`If it had not been for what you did and took with the Yorktown,  ');
document.write(' I am firmly convinced that we would have been badly defeated and the Japs would be ');
document.write(' holding Midway today´...-Ray Spruance’s letter to Fletcher-. </p> ');


document.write(' <p>`Battle of Midway June 4-7, 1942. - They had no right to win, yet they did, ');
document.write(' and in doing so they changed the course of a war. Even against the greatest of odds, ');
document.write(' there is something in humans... A magic blend of skill, faith and courage - ');
document.write(' that can lift men from sure defeat to incredible victory´. ');
document.write(' -Griten on the left side of the central column of the Lincoln Memorial- </p> ');


document.write(' <p>Nobody close to Yamamoto thought that, as in the Coral Sea, Fletcher might ');
document.write(' also be waiting for him at Midway. Nobody understood May warning. ');
document.write(' The wise men in Washington didn’t notice the victory. It was MacArthur’s strategic instinct, ');
document.write(' -and Nimitz’s, of course- that measured the consequences and took advantage of them. ');
document.write(' Unfortunately, Japan didn’t even notice it. </p> ');


document.write(' <p>This memorable American victory was of cardinal importance, not only to ');
document.write(' the United States, but to the whole Allied cause. The moral effect was tremendous ');
document.write(' and instantaneous. At one stroke, the dominant position of Japan in the Pacific was reversed. ');
document.write(' The glaring ascendancy of the enemy was gone for ever ');
document.write(' -Winston Spencer Churchill. `The Second World War. Volume IV. The hinge of fate´-. </p> ');


document.write(' <p>On a May 30th, that of 1916, Great Britain witnessed the departure of its Grand Fleet ');
document.write(' towards Jutland. It was the biggest and most powerful on earth and a victory against ');
document.write(' German ‘High Seas Fleet’ could decide the outcome of the war and perhaps save Russia from communism. ');
document.write(' It doubled its opponent in number and had triple its power. But it did not defeat it.  </p> ');


document.write(' <p>On another May 30th, that of 1942, America could see what was left of its fleet set ');
document.write(' sail under difficult conditions towards Midway. It was going against the biggest and ');
document.write(' most powerful navy on earth and a defeat by Japan could isolate Europe from American help and ');
document.write(' drag the world into the fauces of fascism. The enemy was triple in number and power. But it defeated it. </p> ');


document.write(' <p>`Fletcher decision to split his task force upon rendezvous with Spruance was a ');
document.write(' flash of inspiration. A good tactical commander not only knows the principles of war, ');
document.write(' he knows when and how to manipulate them, Fletcher’s separating his numerically inferior ');
document.write(' force in the face of the enemy was a classic example of this flair. ');
document.write(' Had the three American carriers remained bunched the tragedy of Yorktown ');
document.write(' could well have been multiplied by three´ -Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. ');
document.write(' Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. ‘Miracle at Midway’-. </p> ');


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