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Benefits of cold water: Health guru and extreme athlete Wim Hof says we have ‘power within’ to heal disease
The ability to control our health could be right inside us.
This is according to the philosophy and practices of Dutch athlete Wim Hof, father of the Wim Hof Method.
Hof, 63, revealed how his teachings have revolutionized public health in an on-camera interview from the Netherlands with Fox News Digital.
The Wim Hof Method has three pillars: cold plunging, breathing and mindset.
The method has been proven scientifically — according to numerous medical journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) — to have monumental impacts on mental and physical health.
Wim Hof, known as the “Iceman” for his ability to withstand seemingly impossible levels of cold, demonstrates at a hotel in Kathmandu in May 2007. (DEVENDRA MAN SINGH./AFP via Getty Images)
Nicknamed “the Iceman,” Hof shared that one chief benefit of his method is reducing inflammation. It’s the leading cause of most ailments and autoimmune diseases, he noted.
“I’m bringing my knowledge from nature through science to global health care, showing that through science — no speculation — we are able to do so much more within our physiology,” he said.
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“And I think it’s time to have that get out to the world to bring people some consolation in these confusing times, that there is much more autonomy over mind and body,” he said.
“I’m a man on a mission. I want everybody to be happy, strong and healthy.”
Wim Hof joined Fox News Digital from the Netherlands for an on-camera interview on March 27, 2023. (Angelica Stabile/Fox News Digital)
His “powerful” techniques are “available for anybody” worldwide, he said. All it takes is commitment and a little cold water.
Who is Wim Hof?
Hof is best known for his daring physical feats, such as running marathons while barefoot beyond the polar circle and climbing through the “death zone” of Mt. Everest in only his shorts.
“I began to have control over my emotions.”
The extreme athlete first felt the pull to immerse himself in the cold as a kid growing up in Sittard, Netherlands, according to his book, “The Wim Hof Method.”
At 17, Hof took his first cold plunge on a Sunday morning in winter at Beatrixpark in Almere, Netherlands — and discovered the power of cold water.
Hof met his wife, Olaya, when he was 22 years old. The couple had four children together.
Olaya struggled with depression — and in 1995, she fell victim to the illness and committed suicide.
“The whole of psychiatry could not help [Olaya],” he said. “How broken I was in my heart and there was nothing that could help me.”
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He continued, “I had no money. I had four kids left behind and the love of my life — gone.”
This “devastating” moment expanded his method to include mental health.
Dutch world record holder Wim Hof, known as “The Ice Man,” speaks as he tries to set a new world record for the longest and largest ice bath on April 21, 2015, in Eindhoven. (Koen van Weel/AFP via Getty Images)
What helped him cope the most was “going into the cold,” he said.
“Because then, at that moment, you are surviving,” he said. “You learn to survive instead of being taken on by your emotional agony,” he continued.
“The emotional agony eats you alive and that will make you, finally, depressed. It will take the life force out of you,” he said.
With cold water plunging, “you open up to peace inside — and that inaugurates the healing,” he said.
“I began to have control over my emotions,” he added.
Hof said facing the cold as a group triggers pre-historic togetherness, as demonstrated by cold plunge group Sunday Swim on Long Island, New York. (Fernando Vasquez/Sunday Swim)
The cold exposure boosted Hof’s mental wellness as well as his energy levels, which started him on a journey of spreading the word to others who were experiencing similar hardships.
“After 49 years … all these moments of faith, like drops, [have become] a tsunami,” he said.
Since then, the method has caught fire across the world. Hof said people have thanked him “straight from the heart” for changing and saving their lives.
“They give me tears and all,” he said. “It’s real.”
Many communities, like New York’s Sunday Swim, preach the positive effects of cold-water therapy by practicing cold plunging in large groups.
This method is so powerful as practiced in groups due to our pre-historic beginnings, noted Hof.
The Wim Hof Method is broken down into three pillars: cold water immersion, breathing and mindset. Long Island polar plunge group Sunday Swim practices breathing on the beach on a cold day in March 2023. (Fernando Vasquez/Sunday Swim)
“The cold in pre-historics was our enemy and that brought people together,” he said.
“It creates a natural camaraderie because the opposing force is out there, and once you begin to act like a community, you become stronger.”
The cold, Hof said, “wakes up” the feeling of togetherness in a world that’s become “over-individualized.”
What happens to the body in the cold
The cold awakens the human cardiovascular system, which is made up of 70,000 miles of arteries, veins and capillaries, Hof said, noting that this system is long enough to wrap around planet Earth twice.
“My group of people was 100% not sick.”
Comprised of what Hof called “millions of little muscles,” this system is only awakened in the cold — and successive generations of warming up in the colder months have put those muscles to rest.
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“You feel your cardiovascular system bringing the blood flow to all cells, which is the life force,” he said.
“Then an explosion of energy happens because they get fed greatly … The heart is a muscle, so all the little muscles are being stimulated.”
When the body enters cold temperatures, he said, “the heart rate goes down, energy goes up.”
This also expels stress, benefiting mood and mental state.
Proven ‘scientifically effective’
While cardiovascular illnesses are the number-one killer in America, Hof has faced skepticism about his method.
For this reason, he’s accepted invitations from multiple scientists who have studied his lifestyle to prove its credibility, he said.
Experiments include being encased in ice for 80 minutes for a study at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, Amsterdam, where he was able to keep his body temperature stable.
Hof’s blood samples from that experiment were then exposed to bacteria known to cause violent reactions — and no reaction took place. The university subsequently invited Hof to participate in another study.
This time, Hof agreed to be injected with E. coli bacteria so that the strength of his immune system while practicing the method could be investigated.
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Hof’s system, along with those of his panel of 12 trained male subjects, showed no side effects from the bacteria. Previously, it made the other 240 subjects in the study ill.
“I showed no inflammation,” he said. “My group of people was 100% not sick.”
He added, “This showed for the first time in science that the autonomic nervous and innate immune system [can be controlled].”
Wim Hof during the NDR talk show on Nov. 5, 2019, in Hamburg, Germany. (Getty Images)
The novel findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2014.
The study proved that inflammation can be naturally suppressed, which is the “cause and effect of any disease,” he said.
“If it doesn’t work, blame me.”
This includes conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and even cancer.
This ability to ward off illness isn’t a trait unique to Hof, who’s successfully trained other subjects to adapt their bodies in the same fashion.
He’s brought groups of people, some suffering from autoimmune illnesses, to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro by preparing them through the Wim Hof Method, he noted.
Cold plunge group “Sunday Swim” practices Wim Hof’s horse stance to induce blood flow while gathered on Robert Moses beach on Long Island, New York, March 12, 2023. (Fernando Vasquez/Sunday Swim)
This includes a 76-year-old Lyme disease sufferer, who joined Hof on his last trek up the mountain. The man was able to summit the mountain in 31 hours — in only shorts — with no prior climbing experience, Hof said.
“That is the power of the mind,” Hof added.
The method works in any demographic without limitations, Hof noted. All it takes is about 10 days for the body to “fully uptake” the practice, he said.
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Although anyone can practice the Wim Hof Method, its founder said it can be adapted to fit people’s individual conditions as well.
A message to the skeptics
Hof suggested that the E. coli study should have “broken open” the scientific world, but modern-day medical rhetoric has hushed the idea of autonomy over the body.
“I want to heal the world and I will bring it on through science, no speculation.”
“There’s a lot of money going on with disease,” he said. “That’s what I’m afraid of.”
Hof’s message to the skeptics is to try his method at least once to discover the untapped power and energy nestled inside the human body.
“You don’t need to do it, but I offer you this,” he said. “If it doesn’t work, blame me.”
“This is love,” he added. “Love is the ability to bring somebody else into a healthy, happy, strong state of being.”
Hof referred to another study, this one from Detroit’s Wayne State University called “brain over body,” conducted in 2014. Here, he proved he was able to control his body temperature with just his mind.
In response to study results, the university wrote, “The Wim Hof Method may promote the spontaneous release of opioids and cannabinoids in the brain. This effect has the potential to create a feeling of well-being, mood control and reduced anxiety.”
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Hof said, “You can make the body work from the inside and do the right thing to neutralize the impact. The mind is able to connect with the physical body to make it stronger.”
This “willful control” over the body should be studied “so much more” than it has been to date, he suggested.
A group of Long Islanders run into the ocean at Field 5 of Long Island’s Robert Moses beach on New Year’s Day 2023. (Fernando Vazquez/Certified Distribution)
“I want to bring light into the darkness,” he said.
Today’s health care system can seem like a “money-making scheme,” Hof said, adding that true science should be “what benefits mankind.”
He continued, “Not their wallet, not the economy. It should benefit human wellness and the prosperity of health, happiness and strength.”
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Hof revealed some new studies in the works, including research with UCLA on bipolar conditions and DNA; research on performance and stress resilience with Queensland University; and research in Sydney, Australia, on endometriosis.
“We are built to be in control of ourselves.”
New research also includes a Penn State University study in partnership with a Dutch university, set for April 1 and 2, on cognitive ability and enhancement techniques.
“I want to heal the world and I will bring it on through science, no speculation,” he said. “Let them all come and prove me wrong. I think faith in the good is [what] will stay forever.”
The Wim Hof philosophy
Hof offered his definition of a life well-lived: It’s living up to a purpose that “drives you and that pushes you.”
“Once you get into the goodness, it comes to you,” he said. “And it’s big-time love.”
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He said, “They always say I’m crazy, but I’m bloody f—ing crazy about life and my wife. And that’s not crazy at all.”
Dutchman Wim Hof, better known as “the Iceman” for his ability to withstand seemingly impossible levels of cold, demonstrates skills at a hotel in Kathmandu in May 2007. (DEVENDRA MAN SINGH./AFP via Getty Images)
Hof, who’s almost 64 years old, revealed that he’ll be plunging for 64 minutes in icy water in celebration of his life and to show that he’s still “bloody strong.”
“I’m a simple man, but I’m going to change the world,” he said. “That power now is also for anybody else. We are built to be in control of ourselves.”
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He continued, “We have an innate capacity to have much greater autonomy over mind and body to become happy, strong and healthy, guaranteed. That is what I wish every parent in the world to be able to pass onto their children.”
He added, “That is love. That’s what I want. And that mountain, I’m going to climb to the summit and enjoy the view.”
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Black conservative father and faith leader homeschools 6 kids to ‘get God in’: ‘What could be more important?’
The Bible says the fear of the Lord, meaning a reverence for and an awe of God, is the beginning of knowledge and understanding.
So Abraham Hamilton III of the American Family Association, headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, says that begs a vital question about the public school system.
He asks, “What kind of system of instruction can you have, calling it education, but intentionally and systematically denies the knowledge of God?”
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Hamilton is general counsel and public policy analyst for the American Family Association. He’s an African-American conservative — which makes him a huge target for liberals.
He’s a husband and father of six, all of whom he homeschools, because in researching the history and intent of the public school system, he discovered what should scare any parent who’s trying to mold and shape their child spiritually and intellectually.
Abraham Hamilton of the American Family Association shared his story of how and why he and his wife have chosen to homeschool their six children. It’s not just the indoctrination today that worries Hamilton. (AFA)
Says Hamilton, “The thing that led us to start homeschooling was first my wife and I began delving into a more solidified biblical worldview — and we began to learn a bit about the history of the modern public education system.”
It was a history that looked at the intent of such lauded educators as Horace Mann and John Dewey, who crusaded for a public school system to bring education to the masses to strengthen the nation.
This has been a centuries-long effort to transform the United States of America, said Hamilton.
But Hamilton said there was a more fundamental intention lurking behind the “good of the nation.”
On a recent episode of “Lighthouse Faith” podcast, Hamilton talked about how education by its very nature is a form of discipleship. And that the public school system was designed to disciple young minds into the faith of secular humanism. It’s a man-centered religion.
Secular humanism refers to a philosophy that “replaces a worship of the transcendent or supernatural deity with the deification of man and humankind,” according to an article in the Loyola Law Journal.
So secular humanism is the very definition of what the Bible calls sin — man putting himself in the place of God, believing that humanity is the measure of all things rather than God.
Hamilton said this has been a centuries-long effort to transform the United States.
Students are shown arriving at a public high school in Apr. 19, 2021. It’s no sudden occurrence, writes Lauren Green, that parents today are seeing their kids subject to indoctrination of liberal group think on gender ideology, the environment and critical race theory. (Carlos Delgado/AP Images for Portland Public Schools)
“We did not just arrive where we are accidentally,” he said. “It has been the product of an intentional plan using the school system, by and large as a primary mechanism to accomplish it.”
The book by Fox News’ Pete Hegseth, “Battle for the American Mind,” wholeheartedly affirms Hamilton’s accusations.
The book is an exegesis of how secular, Enlightenment-based and Marxist forces took hold of and promoted the idea of public schools for the purpose of controlling the country.
Writes Hegseth, “American progressives knew that social control was far more powerful than economic control. As such, they set out to gain direct national control of the ‘commanding heights’ of American schools. A project set in motion more than 100 ago is today leveraged through 16,000 hours of government instruction.”
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So it’s no sudden occurrence that parents are seeing their kids subject to indoctrination of liberal group think on gender ideology, the environment and critical race theory.
The COVID-19 shutdown that forced millions of children to receive class instruction via Zoom also let parents see and hear what their children were being taught. The backlash resulted in parents showing up at school board meetings in protest.
Public school students are denied the knowledge that “the reason why Isaac Newton experimented was because of what he read in the Bible.”
But it’s not just indoctrination that worries Hamilton. If the Bible is true, that knowing God is the beginning of all knowledge, then millions of children sitting in public school classrooms for six to eight hours a day, five days a week, are not getting the full breadth of education.
For example, regarding the great scientist Isaac Newton, the 17th century physicist, astronomer and mathematician whose laws of universal gravitation transformed the scientific landscape and our understanding of the motion of the planets, Hamilton says, “What most children don’t realize is that Isaac Newton was a passionate Christian. He could be rightly described as a theologian who dabbled in science.”
He says that what public school students are denied is the knowledge that “the reason why Isaac Newton experimented was because of what he read in the Bible.”
A woman and her daughter pray together over a Bible. While Abraham of the American Family Association says that we do have “godly teachers, wonderful teachers, wonderful administrators, wonderful principals — the system itself has been calcified in opposition to God” to the point where you have to figure out a way to get God in. (iStock)
So they are denied the ability to connect the dots of what makes this world the way it is.
Newton and other scientists of his ilk like Copernicus were inspired by Scriptures such as Psalm 19, which says, “The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.”
Says Hamilton, “Mathematics is an opportunity to peer into the mind of God. The discipline of mathematics only exists because we have a creator who is immutable. He doesn’t change, and he has established a fixed universe that creates an environment for us to be able to have the disciplines of science, the discipline of mathematics.”
But why not try to fix the public school system, like those parents showing up for board meetings and running for the school board themselves?
Hamilton applauds their efforts.
But while he says we do have “godly teachers, wonderful teachers, wonderful administrators, wonderful principals, the system itself has been calcified in opposition to God” to the point where you have to figure out a way to get God in.
Lauren Green of Fox News Channel, the network’s chief religion correspondent, recently spoke with Abraham Hamilton of the American Family Association in Mississippi, who says he cannot entrust the intellectual development of his six children to America’s public school system. (Fox News)
In other words, the system is geared to exclude God.
The recent court battles are evidence.
A high school coach is fired for praying on the football field and a substitute teacher is fired for opposing a same-sex themed book; a school board in Maine rejects a church’s application to hold worship services at a high school because of the church’s beliefs on abortion and gay marriage; and a Utah School district removes the King James Bible from its elementary and middle school shelves because a parent complained it contained “vulgarity and violence.”
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For Hamilton, the bottom line is that he cannot entrust the intellectual development of his children to a system whose aim is to disconnect God from knowledge.
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Says Hamilton, “We are endeavoring to disciple our children in a holistic sense and doing so from our home as a basis for it for that endeavor. What could be more important than that when it comes to our children?”
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Ohio firefighters find 118-year-old time capsule buried in fire station: Here’s what was inside
A team of firefighters has uncovered treasure hidden in their fire department that’s nearly 12 decades old.
Captain Ryan Redmon and a group of six firefighters from the City of Marion Ohio Fire Department were on a mission to retrieve an old department cornerstone from a retired fire station that was about to be demolished, but they ended up finding something truly unexpected.
The Marion Fire Department (MFD) has recently been researching the history of their department, going back to 1848, by digging up some information — both figuratively and literally, Captain Redmon told Fox News Digital.
On May 25, Redmon and the firefighters went down to the old Marion Fire Department Station No. 2, which was built in 1905, to excavate their department’s cornerstone for preservation purposes before the building was scheduled to be torn down.
Captain Ryan Redmon and a team of six firefighters from the Marion Fire Department in Marion, Ohio, discovered a hidden time capsule dating back to 1905. Firefighter Andrew Niles is pictured above removing a brick. (City of Marion Ohio Fire Department)
After spending nearly 30 minutes on the excavation, Redmon and his men quickly realized the cornerstone was deeper into the building than anticipated, so they called in professionals to complete the removal.
As Redmon and his team were about to leave, they pulled out one last brick and saw a copper box fall out of the sandstone, Redmon shared.
Redmon and the other firefighters on the scene took it back to the station excited to show everyone their new discovery.
“Obviously, everybody wanted us to open it right away, and we wanted to, trust me. It was killing us to see what was in there,” Redmon commented.
The 118-year-old time capsule was hidden near the cornerstone of the retired fire station building that was set to be demolished. (City of Marion Ohio Fire Department)
The MFD has been working on the written history of their department, but nothing in their prior research led them to believe there would be a time capsule hidden in the 1905 fire station.
“We’ve done so much history work around the station and I feel like we’ve got a pretty good grasp on our past and where we’ve been, and [to] discover something like [this], there’s no written record of it,” Redmon stated.
“We scoured newspapers, we scoured old records [and] there was never any mention of a time capsule in there, so it was very exciting,” he added.
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The time capsule was placed near the cornerstone of the old MFD station on July 20, 1905, according to a letter found in the capsule written by the fire chief at the time, Redmon added.
Chief Chuck Deem (left) looks on as Captain Redmon (center) and Andrew Niles (far right) pry open the time capsule during a public ceremony on May 31. (City of Marion Ohio Fire Department)
“Firemen aren’t exactly known for being gentle, delicate creatures with things,” Redmon joked. “So we took it to the historical society in town.”
The copper box had been soldered shut on the edge and wasn’t easy to pry open, according to Redmon.
On May 31, the MFD invited the residents of Marion to be a part of a public opening of the time capsule.
Inside the 118-year-old copper box were dozens of well-preserved memorabilia referencing the department including: nine MFD badges from the “turn of the century,” an invitation to the 1878 “Northwestern Ohio Volunteer Fireman’s Association Fireman’s Games” (which is still held today), four newspapers from July 1905 and so much more, according to the City of Marion Ohio Fire Department Facebook page.
Redmon took note of the differences between the “turn of the century era” badges that had been found in the time capsule, detailing the difference in style and size.
“There has been talk about trying to back to that style now that we know that’s our history and that’s kind of where we came from. In the future, maybe we can go back to that,” Redmon commented.
One of Redmon’s favorite discoveries in the box was the letter from Chief McFarland, the department’s fire chief for almost 40 years, he added.
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“He has kind of got his touch on everything. To have an actual letter from him was very [exciting].”
Redmon is looking forward to making a new time capsule for the new fire station which will include an item from the newly found 1905 capsule. (City of Marion Ohio Fire Department)
Redmon gave a lot of credit to Andrew Niles, a firefighter on his team, who has been heading up the department’s historical research and was the one to open the time capsule.
One of the biggest takeaways for Redmon is knowing that he now has a tangible place in the history of the MFD.
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“I was becoming a part of history because I was involved in this opening and this finding,” he shared.
The MFD is planning on taking an item from the 1905 time capsule, most likely one of the badges, and placing it in a new time capsule that will be buried in the construction of the new fire station, Redmon added.
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The hope is that another 118 years will pass by before the new capsule is opened and someone will be able to discover a 236-year-old badge, paying homage to the history and legacy of the Marion Fire Department, Redmon said.
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On this day in history, June 7, 1942, Battle of Midway ends in decisive US victory
On this day in history, June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway — regarded as one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan — came to an end.
The Battle of Midway was an Allied naval victory and a major turning point in World War II.
The battle was fought between Japanese and American carrier forces near the Midway Atoll, a territory of the United States in the central Pacific, from June 4-7, 1942.
On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway began.
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Midway Island is a fairly isolated atoll, so named because it is midway between North America and Asia in the North Pacific Ocean, according to National Geographic.
Midway’s importance grew for commercial and military planners, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
In this June 4, 1942, file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Astoria (CA-34) steams by USS Yorktown (CV-5), shortly after the carrier had been hit by three Japanese bombs in the Battle of Midway. (William G. Roy/U.S. Navy via AP, File)
In the 1930s, Midway became a stopover for Pan American Airways’ “flying clippers” — seaplanes crossing the ocean on their five-day transpacific passage, the same source indicates.
Midway was an incredibly strategic location, multiple sources say.
“The Imperial Japanese Navy planned to use it to secure their sphere of influence in the Pacific theater of the war,” according to National Geographic.
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“The Japanese had not lost a naval battle in more than 50 years, and had nearly destroyed the American fleet just six months earlier in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.”
The American success at Midway was a major victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Pearl Harbor is about 1,300 miles east of Midway, says the same source.
In preparation, American military and intelligence forces worked together to defeat the Japanese.
The Battle of Midway Island, which resulted in a major victory for the U.S. fleet. The USS aircraft carrier ‘Yorktown’ received a direct hit from a Japanese plane, which got through despite the heavy barrage put up by American destroyers. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Code breakers were able to decipher Japanese naval code, allowing American leaders to anticipate Japanese maneuvers, notes National Geographic.
Because of this, the U.S. Navy was then able to launch a surprise attack on the larger Japanese fleet in the area and the Battle of Midway turned the tide of the war, says the same source.
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The American success at Midway was a major victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy as all four Japanese carriers — Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga and Soryu — had participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor, says the National WWII Museum.
The Battle of Midway is often referred to as the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
“Sinking those Japanese carriers represented a resounding defeat over the enemy fleet which had wrought such destruction only six months before,” the same source says.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy would not be capable of overcoming the loss of four carriers and over 100 trained pilots — and with the loss at Midway, the Japanese offensive in the Pacific was overturned and the United States began offensive action in the Pacific, says the National WWII Museum.
The Battle of Midway is widely considered the most decisive U.S. victory of that period.
It is often referred to as the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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Midway Atoll has since been designated as a National Memorial to the Battle of Midway, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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