midway

     

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Trivia about midway

  • This amusement area is Corky's turf; his dad fought in the 1942 naval battle of the same name
  • During WWII America won its 1st major victory over Japan in this naval battle, about 1,200 miles from Hawaii
  • In June 1942 U.S. dive bombers sank 3 Japanese aircraft carriers at this central Pacific battle
  • This battle of June 1942, soon after the Battle of the Coral Sea, is considered the turning point of the Pacific war
  • This word, before "Plaisance" in the name of the 1893 Chicago Expo site, came to refer to any carnival area
  • This island was named for its location between the U.S. west coast & Japan
  • Give me this name of Chicago's 2nd busiest airport & I'll give you a famed WWII battle named for some Pacific islands
  • Among the 30 busiest airports in the U.S. are O'Hare & this other one in Chicago
  • This atoll 1,300 miles NW of Honolulu, the site of a 1942 naval battle, is actually 2 small islands: Sand & Eastern
  • Henry Fonda & Glenn Ford were Admirals Nimitz & Spruance in the 1976 movie about this crucial battle of World War II
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war", reads an inscription about this decisive Pacific battle of June 4-7, 1942
  • The U.S. lost the destroyer Hammann & the aircraft carrier Yorktown in this June 1942 battle in the north Pacific
  • The site of a major American naval victory over Japan in June 1942, it's located 1,300 miles northwest of Hawaii