Early reports and the teaser trailer indicate that they’re going to cover the sacrifice of the TBDs, as well as the preceding US carrier raids that everyone’s seemed to forget.
For those old people who haven’t kept track, the movie also shows the Japanese carriers correctly - turns out they weren’t caught with their entire air wings on deck. See the YouTube vid I posted above.
The first book I read as a kid about the battle of Midway was Walter Lord's Incredible Victory.
As a military brat, that book inspired me to enlist and to try to be as dedicated to honor and sacrifice over self as the Torpedo 8 fliers were.
I did have the pleasure of meeting George Gay at an airshow at Miramar many years ago.
The status of the 4 carriers, specifically Kaga, Soryu and Akagi, was detailed brilliantly in “Shattered Sword,” which debunked the lies Fuchida told that historians swallowed for decades.
Shattered Sword proved that it wasn’t just sheer luck that allowed the dive bombers to wreck the first 3 carriers.
The Japanese were nowhere close to launching a strike on the US carriers at the moment when the dive bombers zoomed down.
So props to the 2019 movie for showing the sacrifice of the torpedo planes.