In more modern things, they say that this window was probably more like forty five minutes and that explains why the american admiral a spruance, who was pushing this whole thing, decided to launch when he did. He was hoping to catch the japanese sort of in mid transition, right, landing some refuling, re arming, but not up there waiting for him. That's exactly what happened. And instead of being able to mow the lawn so that the Japans could maintain a naval superiority over a quickly building states navy, they ended up being the ones whose grass was cut. The first five or ten minutes of this battle of midway strike that we just