Get to the other fellow with everything you have and dump it on him.

U.S. Navy Admiral William Halsey articulating his aircraft carrier tactical doctrine.

Welcome to the history of the 20th century.

Music Welcome to the history of the 20th century. Episode 363. Midway.

Last week, I told you about the Japanese campaign in the Southwest Pacific.

That episode covered events that took place before the Battle of Midway, and then the

decisions that were made on both sides in the aftermath of Midway.

Today, we are going to circle back and look at the Battle of Midway itself.

I want to set the stage for today's episode by taking a look at the Hawaiian Islands.

Hawaii was first discovered by Polynesian sailors in the 13th century.

The British explorer James Cook is generally credited as the first European to discover the

islands in 1778, although the Spanish say that a Spanish ship plying the route between the Philippines and Mexico

came across them more than 200 years earlier.

Cook named them the sandwich islands,

and they were known by that name in English for many years.

English speakers now refer to them by the name of the largest island in the archipelago, and

call them the Hawaiian Islands.

Hawaii began to trade with the British, and gunpowder weapons provided by the British enabled

King Kamehamea I.

First to enforce his rule over the archipelago in the form of a united Kingdom of

Hawaii by 1810. The flag of the kingdom incorporated the British Union Jack as an expression of

Hawaii's close relationship with Britain. The Kingdom of Hawaii sought and received diplomatic recognition from a number of great powers,

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