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Four weeks later at Midway, U.S. dive-bombers inflicted the war's first clear defeat on the Japanese, sinking four Japanese carriers. Long years of war were still to come, but thereafter the U.S. was never again to fight against hopeless odds...
...Midway. The turning point of the war, according to Toland, came at 7:24 a.m., April 18, 1942, when Jimmy Doolittle took off from the carrier deck of the U.S.S. Hornet at the head of 16 B-25s. Though the raid on Tokyo did little actual damage, Toland reports that Japanese officials were astonished to find that their capital was so vulnerable, concluded that the nation was likely to panic under sustained air attack. The result was the Japanese decision to invade Midway and the Aleutians, the likeliest U.S. bomber bases. Dangerously overextended, they blundered into the Battle...
...Midway through the second period of the game took place...
After a very poor start, Bob Kolodney rallied to turn in one of the best per formances of the evening. Down 1-11 midway through the second period, he fought back, almost gained a pin, and was finally defeated by the slim margin...
...third Army TD was set up on a 41 yard pass play from quarterback Joe Doolittle to Dick Seiler, the lonely end. Another dramatic pass, this one for 48 yards, from Doolittle to Perdew, gave the Cadets a comfortable 24-0 lead midway through the third period...