midway
Midway is a 1976 war film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford. [1]
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan’s Pacific Ocean war. [2]
"Midway" tells the story of this historic June battle where a Japanese carrier force, in an attempt to occupy Midway island and lure the American fleet to destruction, was meet valiently by US forces operating off of three aircraft carriers and numerous escort ships. [3]
U.S. Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers from the USS Hornet about to attack the burning Japanese cruiser Mikuma for the third time on 6 June 1942. [4]
The film chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the Pacific. [...] The Imperial Japanese Navy had been undefeated until that time and out-numbered the American naval forces by four to one. [1]
A dramatization of the battle that turned out to be the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. [...] It was the first battle in which naval air power was extensivly used, and at its conclusion the Japanese Carrier force had been completly destroyed which lead the way for the US 1943 and 44 offensives which would eventually bring the Pacific War to a close. [3]
Japanese Combined Fleet commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto moved on Midway in an effort to draw out and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s aircraft carrier striking forces, which had embarassed the Japanese Navy in the mid-April Doolittle Raid on Japan’s home islands and at the Battle of Coral Sea in early May. [...] Aerial photograph, looking just south of west across the southern side of the atoll, 24 November 1941. [2]
The Lexington, a World War II-era carrier that was decommissioned in 1991, was the longest-serving carrier in history. [...] All the scenes of American single-engined bombers flying in formation are of SB2U Vindicators (actually in use at that time), so that the famous attack by Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8), made in Douglas TBD-1 Devastators, is depicted by Vindicators in formation, but with SBD Dauntlesses making the actual attack. [1]
Note ship’s flight deck markings, including Katakana identification character “hi” on her after flight deck. [...] The base at Midway, though damaged by Japanese air attack, remained operational and later became a vital component in the American trans-Pacific offensive. [2]
American Admiral Chester Nimitz (played by Fonda), plays a desperate gamble by sending his last remaining aircraft carriers to Midway before the Japanese to set up his own ambush. [1]
Sources:
[1] Midway (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Battle of Midway
[3] Midway (1976) - IMDb
[4] Battle of Midway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia