WI Spanish philippines during WWII?

While I was having my morning shower it occurred to me that if the Philippines and Pacific Islands were Spanish in World War II it would make the OTL American and Japanese naval doctrines irrelevant. The USN doctrine was a Philippines relief expedition. Meanwhile the Japanese doctrine was to wage a war of attrition on the advancing American fleet using bases in the Pacific Islands before fighting a decisive battle with capital ships off the home islands or the Philippines.
 
If the Spanish still held the Pacific Islands and the Philippines I think we would still have the attack on Pearl Harbour, occupation of Port Moresby, the Doolittle Raid and the Battle of the Coral Sea, but would we have had the Battle of Midway as I know it?
 
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