To the Southwest was the invasion task force with a group of cruisers and transports carrying 5,000 troops ordered to invade Midway, destroying what would be left of the 4,000 dug-in marines.

The closure of the homeless shelter would have a wide ranging impact on the Midway area and other homeless shelters in the city. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7 ...

Kaga was instrumental in Japan’s initial wartime dominance, helping refine carrier warfare doctrine. However, its prominence ended at the Battle of Midway, ...

As Martin Dugard reminds us in “Taking Midway,” Yamamoto, after hobbling the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, oversaw a series of campaigns in the Western Pacific that consolidated Japan’s ...

An air traffic control tower at Midway International Airport on Feb. 25, 2025, after a camera caught a near collision between two planes there earlier in the day.

The World War II-era Kaga was sunk after the Battle of Midway from June 4 to 7, 1942, off an atoll located to the northwest of Hawaii. Its wreckage was discovered in 1999 and 2019.

MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Deep-sea explorers scouring the world’s oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area ...

An Airbus A300B arrives at Midway Airport on 3 October 1973 as part a promotional tour. Back on 3 October 1973, Midway saw its largest airliner. The A300 prototype landed at Midway as part of a ...

The Izumo-class Kaga might sound familiar to World War II historians. That's because it shares a name with another aircraft carrier in the then-Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

The Battle of Midway in June 1942 is regarded as a decisive U.S. victory in the war against Japan during WWII — and on this day in history, June 7, 1942, the Midway naval battle ended.

On June 4–6, 1942, Kleiss flew his aircraft in the Battle of Midway. ... McClusky’s pilots caught sight of the main body of the Japanese fleet and they attacked the Japanese carrier Kaga.