3h 8min, jun 15, 1942 y - Battle of Midway
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Instead, all of the fighting was conducted 200 miles apart from the fleets by carrier launched planes. The United States successfully turned back the Japanese assault on New Guinea, then scored a major victory in June when US planes from three aircraft carriers near Midway Island sank four of Japan’s ten aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway, while the United States lost only one.
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