Pearl Harbor started it and Midway turned the tide after the Doolittle Raid gave them a taste of their own medicine. I recently saw the new movie "Midway" which covers all three of these events. All I have read seems to point out it is much more "Correct History" than the one with Charleton Heston. I recommend it. Lots of SBD Dauntless and CGI effects, but well done for the most part. About 5 years ago one of the Atlanta Wing of the Commemorative Air Force brought a Dauntless to Cincinnati and I did a video on it. At the time only 2 were operational!
Locally, there was a radio interview with a PH survivor, and he was 98!
Greg