Midway between 34 and 40 is 37. How you work this out is by taking the difference between 34 and 40, dividing it in half and then adding it back to 34.

The Battle of Midway occurred in June, 1942. The first atomic bomb was not used until August, 1945.

The Battle of Guadalcanal was a turning point in the Pacific War. It marked the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Japanese Empire and resulted in a strategic victory for the Allies. The battle ended Japan's expansion in the Pacific and forced them to adopt a defensive strategy for the rest of the war. This shift in momentum proved crucial in the ultimate defeat of Japan.

The U.S. naval forces at Midway consisted of 3 aircraft carriers, 8 cruisers, 16 destroyers, and 19 submarines.

No ships of the Royal Navy took part in the Battle of Midway. It was fought entirely by the ships of the U. S. Pacific Fleet.

The battle brought near parity between Japanese and American carrier forces in the Pacific and removed the threat to Hawaii that a Japanese victory would have brought. It also permanently stopped Japanese expansion to that area of the Pacific.

Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto commanded the Imperial Japanese Navy and was responsible for the plan to attack and invade Midway. Admiral Chuichi Nagumo commanded the aircraft carrier strike force that was responsible for destroying any U.S. naval forces that intervened and the military installations on Midway. There was no Japanese general involved in the battle.

Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto was Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy and responsible for the Midway operation. Admiral Chuichi Nagumo commanded the Striking Force of aircraft carriers responsible for carrying out the operation. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet and was responsible for the strategy to defend Midway. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance commanded the two U.S. carrier task forces responsible for defending Midway.

The first naval battle fought entirely by aircraft, and in which the opposing ships of each side never came within sight of each other, was the Battle of the Coral Sea in May, 1942, one month prior to the Battle of Midway.

The US Naval Communications Service HQ in Washington D.C. code named "NEGAT' in WW2

Nimitz obtained crucial intelligence from U.S. codebreakers who had cracked the Japanese naval codes, specifically the JN-25 code. This allowed him to learn about the Japanese plan to attack Midway Atoll and estimate the timing and location of their attack. This intelligence played a significant role in Nimitz's decision-making and ultimately contributed to the American victory at the Battle of Midway.

The US victory turned the tide of the war in the Pacific to US favor

On the American side there were two Task Forces in the Battle, one being commanded by Raymond A. Spruance. Spruance was not a flier, and not a carrier man, but was recommended by Bull Halsey to be Halsey's replacement just before the Battle, when Halsey was hospitalized in Hawaii. So on practically no notice Spruance sailed from Pearl Harbor on the mission, and straight into the Battle, which he handled masterfully. Spruance and Halsey then alternated in command of the US fighting ships in the Pacific for the rest of the war - when Spruance was in command they were the Third Fleet, and when Halsey was in command they were the Fifth Fleet. One admiral would go out and complete an operation while the other with his staff was in Hawaii planning the next one. Spruance was in command again in the last great carrier battle in June of 1944, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, also sometimes called "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot", which completely destroyed the last of Japan's sea-going air power. Spruance's biographer called him "The Quiet Warrior", which was an apt description, and he has never been given the adulation that was poured on Halsey. At the end of the war when a few officers of both the Army and Navy were made the first five star officers ever in American history, Halsey got five stars, but Spruance did not.

The overall US Naval Commander in the Pacific from just after Pearl Harbor through to the end was Chester Nimitz, who also got five stars. Nimitz was the one who made the decision to believe in what the intelligence people were telling him, and to stake all the slender resources remaining to the US Navy on the defense of Midway. Nimitz directed the Central Pacific, Northern Pacific and South Pacific efforts from Hawaii.

The other Task Force commander at Midway was Frank Jack Fletcher. Fletcher was senior to Spruance and was in overall command of the American ships in the Battle. Many of his papers were lost when his ship was sunk during the war, and he refused to be interviewed by the influential naval historian Samuel Elliot Morrison at the end of the war, so Morrison snubbed Fletcher in his writing on the Pacific War, and later historians have largely followed suit, so that you have to be pretty well informed on the Battle to even know that Fletcher was there, let alone in command in this smashing victory. Fletcher was in command in the North Pacific for the rest of the war, and, needless to say, like Spruance, never got five stars.

Maybe the most famous regular guy was Ensign George Gay, who got no grief over his name, because "Gay" was not coopted to be a synonym for homosexual until he was a pretty old fellow. But as a young Naval aviator Ensign Gay was the sole survivor of the attack of Torpedo Squadron Eight on the Japanese Fleet. There were three types of carrier planes - fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers, with torpedo bombers being the biggest, with a three man crew - pilot, rear gunner and radio operator. They carried a torpedo, just like the ones launched by submarines, and had to fly in low and straight over the water and drop the torpedo within a mile of the enemy ship they were hoping the torpedo would hit, which made them large, slow targets. At the time of Midway the US had a new generation of dive bombers and fighters, but the new torpedo bombers were not yet with the fleet, meaning the old torpedo bombers were extremely slow targets. The plan had been for the dive bombers and torpedo bombers to hit at the same time, but the torpedo planes got there ahead and went on in. They were slaughtered, by both shipboard anti-aircraft fire and defending Japanese fighter planes. Few of them even managed to get close enough to release their torpedoes, and they scored no hits. But this was not in vain, as they drew all the umbrella of Japanese fighter planes after them, and when the dive bombers appeared overhead just as the last of Torpedo Squadron Eight was going down in flames, there was nothing to stop the dive bombers, who proceeded to sink three Japanese carriers in the next ten minutes. Ensign Gay had a ringside seat for this, floating in the middle of the Japanese Fleet in his life vest. He was rescued a day or two after the Battle by a flying boat, and lived to be an old man.

On the Japanese side, the most famous was Admiral Yamamoto, who would be dead within a year, shot down as a result of more code-breaking by American intelligence, and Admiral Nagumo, who up until Midway had led the Jap carriers whereever and whenever they wanted to go, until they had become overconfident.

Midway was in the Pacific Theatre and made no dfference at all to the European Theatre.