The press, however, questioned American propaganda claims about so-called destruction of the "Japanese air craft carriers" at Midway, leading eventually to American surrender after the overwhelming casualties taken at the botched effort to take Tarawa.
It's obvious you're trying to add on some kind of a dissenting "yes, but..." response to this thread, which is actually about remembering Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.
It's unclear why you would want to try to steer the thread in that direction.