Why is the midway battle considered imortant?

Answer 1

Midway was the turning point of the Pacific War. Up to that time the Japanese had had everything go their way, with the exception of the Battle of the Coral Sea, the month before Midway. The Coral Sea was a draw, but did check the Japanese from an invasion. Midway, though, was a huge, clear-cut US victory. From that time the Japanese had no more successes, no more victories. It still took more than three more years to convince the Japanese they were beaten, but the war was lost for them that first week of June, 1942. The US had only a few aircraft carriers, and never more than three in the Pacific in the early months of the war. The Japanese had more than twice as many. The US was frantically building more, but this took time. The Japanese lost four of their carriers at Midway. These absolutely could not be replaced. The Japanese had nothing like the shipbuilding capacity of the US. The Japanese completed only one aircraft carrier after the war started - the US eventually built dozens of new carriers.