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81 years ago on June 4 1942 the Battle of Midway was fought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway

So then doing some quick math, that means it was 6 years ago where I was fortunate enough to attend an event commemorating the 75th anniversary of that battle. It was held on the USS Midway docked as a museum in San Diego, and they even had a live feed from the island.

I find the sequence of events that took place during that battle to be fascinating - the code-breaking, the submarine that delayed a destroyer, the attack of the Torpedo 8 squadron - just so many things that contributed to the outcome.

Do you mean 81 years? Are you in 2023?

LOL, fat fingers, fixed.

Many people don't realize just how lucky the USN was at Midway. On paper the Japanese SHOULD have won.

Outside of our ability to read their message traffic, yes they should have. The code breakers were the force multiplier that mattered. Plus a great deal of luck.