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To: Retain Mike

I saw it a few weeks ago.

It’s a great movie and historically accurate.

10/10.


2 posted on 12/01/2019 3:24:47 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Well, not it’s not.

1) Spruance was with the Enterprise/Hornet, NOT at Pearl when the battle commenced.

2) Nimitz would not have been at all surprised about the “AF” confirmation because he approved it.

3) Yorktown was NOT with the Enterprise/Hornet task force but sailed later, which made its arrival all the more timely.

4) Yamamoto never said “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant.” He may have believed that, but there is no record of him ever saying it.

5) The Japanese were NOT planning to extend their perimeter until the Doolittle raid. Despite logic, they somehow thought the raid came from Midway.

6) The movie doesn’t mention Yamamoto’s fateful (and poor) decision to send two carriers to the Aleutians in a feint. This was SOP, but in this case, those two carriers would have finished off the American carriers had they been in the fight.

7) The movie most importantly completely missed the fact that Spruance, the senior commander at Midway, willingly turned over all operational flight control to Jack Fletcher, his junior, because Fletcher had carrier experience. This was something you never would have seen in the Japanese Navy, nor even the Royal Navy for that matter.

While these didn’t substantially damage the film, it’s far less historically accurate than the 1976 “Midway.”

Editorially, while it was ok, the movie tried to do way too much by including Pearl and Doolittle. It took away from the real tactics and skill (and luck) of the American forces in battle.


9 posted on 12/01/2019 3:43:45 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Signalman; Engedi
What movie? it is new Hollywood "Battle of Midway" movie or documentary?
143 posted on 12/13/2019 11:04:40 AM PST by wannabegeek
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