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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Blinder on June 04, 2014, 02:48:04 PM
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72 years ago today, our boys took off from Midway Atoll, the carriers Yorktown, Enterprise & Hornet and gave the supposedly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy a sound thumping that cost them 4 front-line aircraft carriers and their best pilots and planes. Take a moment to remember our Heroes of Midway today.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cmLWWSVPwMM#t=4844
(Turn on subtitles if they don't appear.)
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Watched the Nat Geo special from 99 back when Ballard found the wreck of Yorktown.
Makes me sad remembering how at one time, every year there would be commemorative programming on the anniversary. Now, we're lucky to see D-Day and Midway commemoration folded into Memorial Day programming. Assuming History isn't running an all-day Pawn Stars marathon. :P
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There was also another part of the battle that took place in the Aleutians, the Japanese invasion and occupation of Attu and Kiska. It was intended as a diversionary feint to draw the US Pacific Fleet away from Midway.
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:salute The Battle of Midway is my all-time favorite war movie. "What are we gonna drop on 'em now? Spitballs!?"
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:salute The Battle of Midway is my all-time favorite war movie. "What are we gonna drop on 'em now? Spitballs!?"
Yes, it is a decent film BUT... I absolutely HATE the way they splice in newsreel footage, often with incorrect aircraft types. For example, you'll se shots of Hellcats and Avengers landing on deck, even though neither type was available at Midway. There is some Dauntless footage as well, and that helps.
Of course, this was before CGI, so more excuseable, but still, that kind of stuff drive me crazy.
Also IN... When I saw the topic, I figured we were going, uh, "there" again. I'm sort of glad we aren't.
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Yes, it is a decent film BUT... I absolutely HATE the way they splice in newsreel footage, often with incorrect aircraft types. For example, you'll se shots of Hellcats and Avengers landing on deck, even though neither type was available at Midway. There is some Dauntless footage as well, and that helps.
Of course, this was before CGI, so more excuseable, but still, that kind of stuff drive me crazy.
Also IN... When I saw the topic, I figured we were going, uh, "there" again. I'm sort of glad we aren't.
If you had seen the movie on the Big Screen in the 70's with your Dad you would have just been blown away and not knit picked the details. "Were we better than the Japs or just luckier" :salute
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If you had seen the movie on the Big Screen in the 70's with your Dad you would have just been blown away and not knit picked the details. "Were we better than the Japs or just luckier" :salute
Wow. We must be about the same age because I think I did see it with my Dad and I think it was on father's day.
He (RIP) and I used to also play the Avalon Hill game by the same name.
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I love the movie "Midway" -- it is one of my favorite movies of all time. Yes, it has some incorrect plane types in snippets of historical footage here and there, but I'd rather have real footage with incorrect aircraft than Hollywood, stupidly unrealistic CGI like we typically get today.
Also, it has the cast of doom: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook, Robert Wagner, Toshiro Mifune, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Tom Selleck, even Ponch (Erik Estrada).
The only other movie that I know of that has such an amazing cast is "A Bridge Too Far" (another of my favorite movies of all time): Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, Edward Fox, Michael Cane, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Maximilian Schell, Elliott Gould, Liv Ullmann.
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By the way, you can fight the battle of Midway in frame 2 of the upcoming Scenario:
http://pacificwar.wordpress.com/battle-for-midway/
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in the movie nobody answers that question--but i say we were both--smarter because we found a way to see if midway was the target--luckier that the jap plane that found our fleet had a broken radio and could not radio it's location..and that the jap pilots thought they already sunk the yorktown
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If you had seen the movie on the Big Screen in the 70's with your Dad you would have just been blown away and not knit picked the details. "Were we better than the Japs or just luckier" :salute
I was 18 when it came out. What was the special effect it boasted Sensaround Sound or something? I have to admit the sounds were fantastic but even at 18 having started on my WWII reading binge about age 11 or so.. I was nitpicking the plane types too. :D
He (RIP) and I used to also play the Avalon Hill game by the same name.
I used to love that game Zilla! :aok