Six months after Pearl Harbor, the US Navy was on the brink of collapse, and the victorious Japanese fleet planned a final, decisive blow. At a tiny atoll named Midway, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto prepared an intricate trap to annihilate America's last aircraft carriers. What he didn't know was that US naval intelligence had broken Japan's codes, turning his ambush into a deadly gamble for both sides.

This episode tells the story of the codebreakers who revealed the plan, the admirals who risked everything on that intelligence, and the pilots whose incredible courage during five fateful minutes would turn the tide of the entire Pacific War.

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