Group: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
From: WaltBJ
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: The importance of the Battle of Midway

If the Japanese had taken Midway they would have become a practice
target for B17s out of Oahu. I have been on Midway and there is no
place to hide. It would also have a been a nice radar target for
midnight bombing using radar which came into service shortly after the
Midway battle. Operating search aircraft out of there would have
swiftly become impossible and life on that pair of sand bars
intolerable.
Walt BJ