Talk:General Discussion/@comment-16545476-20140707120618/@comment-25139231-20140708112142

Operation AL and MI objective was to reduce the operational area of US fleet. Operation AL was meant to capture and secure the north area of the pacific, the bering strait, avoiding a possible use of that base to support an assault to the north area of japan and use that same base to control that area. Operation MI was more important than operation AL because without Midway the only remaining base in the pacific (and also the closer ones to japan) would have been Pearl Harbour (witch is too distant to be able to support operation in the west pacific area), If you watch a pacific map you notice that midway is in the "middle of the way" to japan and there are no other island in the pacific witch can be used as staging base for a fleet, if midway was captured US would not be able to attack japan controlled territory without recapturing midway first. Not an happy situation.

And just to be sure isn't operation AL already rappresented in world 3?