Professor Greg Jackson

As we'll soon hear, U.S.

Naval Intelligence has been working tirelessly to break the Japanese codes.

And it seems that, with all the messages flying around and about the Philippines, they're getting quite close.

And Jimmy Doolittle's raid, that brazen attack, not just on Japan, but on the capital city itself, just over a week after General Edward King's surrender on Bataan.

Oh, that left a mark.

It may have punctured Japan's sense of invulnerability just as much as it proved a boon to the American psyche.

In fact, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku is now intent on drawing out Uncle Sam's aircraft carriers before they can strike again.

Hmm, might American code cracking and Japanese haste mean a shift in the Pacific theater's tides of war?

Might this empire of the rising sun be on the cusp of becoming an empire of a setting sun?

We'll find out next time in a vicious fight at a small atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

An atoll known as Midway.

History That Doesn't Suck is created and hosted by me, Greg Jackson.

Episode researched and written by Greg Jackson and Will King.

Production by Airship.

Audio editing by Mohamed Shahzaib.

Sound design by Molly Bott.

Theme music composed by Greg Jackson.

Arrangement and additional composition by Lindsey Graham of Airship.