Six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy had already begun striking back. The Doolittle Raid in April 1942 brought the war to the Japanese home islands; the Battle of the Coral Sea in May halted the Japanese drive toward Port Moresby; and in June the decisive Battle of Midway shattered Japan's carrier striking force. These pages from the June 1942 Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin — the publication that would later be renamed All Hands — recount how American sailors and aviators were transforming from a force reeling from disaster into one capable of seizing the offensive across the Pacific.
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