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First days of June 1942

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Joe Rochefort’s cryptography unit successfully deciphers Admiral Yamamoto’s orders for his fleet to ambush the U.S. Navy off the coast of Midway. This information will allow the Americans to turn the battle in their favor, inflicting irreparable damage on the Imperial Japanese Fleet (five aircraft carriers sunk), which will go on the defensive for the rest of the war.