Veterans, historians mark 60th anniversary of Midway

Tuesday, June 4, 2002

HONOLULU -- Sixty years after the Battle of Midway, ceremonies across the nation and on the tiny atoll itself will commemorate the day U.S. forces sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and turned the tide of World War II.

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