Midway is one of the most well known and discussed battles of the Pacific War. But far less known was that, at the same time, another Japanese carrier group was attacking another US held island some 1800 miles away.
On Louisiana highway 1, just south of the leeway bridge in Jefferson parish, not far from where the road ends, is a marker for the Cheniere Caminada cemetery, all that remains of a once thriving town that disappeared virtually overnight.