The Battle of Midway involved a Japanese offensive stretching all the way to the Alaskan islands, while the Americans were trying to strike a match and the Japanese trying to blow it out. On June 4, 1942, the first American planes arrived and the Japanese battled almost constant attacks.
The arrival of American dive bombers turned the tide of the Pacific War against Japan. Despite the early struggles of American torpedo planes and fighters, the arrival of multiple waves of dive bombers, from different directions, marks a dramatic turning point in the war.