Individual #battle_of_Midway__Midway naval battle of World War II (June 1942); land and carrier-based American planes decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
instance of: #naval_battle
part of: #World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
part of: #Midway_Islands an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 mile northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base
part of: #Hawaiian_Islands__Sandwich_Islands a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific
part of: #Polynesia the islands in the eastern part of Oceania
part of: #Oceania__Oceanica a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
part of: #Pacific_Ocean__Pacific the largest ocean in the world
part of: #Austronesia islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
part of: #Pacific_Ocean__Pacific the largest ocean in the world
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