WWII, episode 8 - Midway & Guadalcanal: 1942 in the Pacific Theatre

This episode returns to the Pacific Theatre of World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Japanese conquest of the Philippines. In the 1st six months of the war, Japan racked up an impressive list of victories. Then at the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japan failed to take Port Moresby, and for the first time, they suffered a strategic defeat. However, since the Allies lost more ships in that battle, Japan could sell the battle to its citizenry as a victory. But about a half a year after Pearl Harbor, the US Navy dealt the Imperial Japanese Navy a crushing blow at the Battle of Midway, which turned out to be the turning point of the war, though no one suspected that was the case at the time. At the end of 1942, the Allies racked up another big win in the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Solomon Islands. And just like that, the tides turned.