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bob = """The Battle of Midway (ミッドウェー海戦, Middowē Kaisen<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) was the most important naval battle of the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Theater_of_Operations" title="Pacific Theater of Operations">Pacific Campaign</a> of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Midway_Decisive-7">[7]</a> Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Japan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">attack on Pearl Harbor</a>, and one month after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea" title="Battle of the Coral Sea">Battle of the Coral Sea</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> decisively defeated an <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> (IJN) attack against <a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a>, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.<a href="#cite_note-U.S-8">[8]</a> Military historian <a href="/wiki/John_Keegan" title="John Keegan">John Keegan</a> called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a>"""
bob = bob.replace("<\b>",'').split()
for item in bob:
 if "<" in item or ">" or "href=" in item or "style=" in item or "class=" in item:
 bob.remove(item)

tom = " ".join(bob)
print(tom)

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