My nine year-old is obsessed with Midway and WWII carrier warfare. He loves Battle 360 on the History Channel and the Midway movie. He’s getting a Lego USS Enterprise for Christmas.
He thinks Star Wars is a boring joke. Dad is pleased.
Outstanding post.
My nine year-old is obsessed with Midway and WWII carrier warfare. He loves Battle 360 on the History Channel and the Midway movie. He’s getting a Lego USS Enterprise for Christmas.
He thinks Star Wars is a boring joke. Dad is pleased.
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You’ve got a smart young man there!
When I was your son’s age I was beginning to dream about a future in Naval Aviation. Mainly from reading and rereading Samuel Elliot Morrison’s ‘History of the US Navy in WWII’.
Today many kids are more attuned to video rather than book so I commend to you several short YouTube videos which you both might find enjoyable.
First, the prelude to Midway. . . the battle of the Coral Sea. Go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB5hH3ksvKE
Then onto part 1 of 3 to analysis the battle of Midway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo
As an aside, by 13 I had a firm goal to be a “Nasal Radiator” (sorry inside joke) and 13 year later won my “Wings of Gold”.
If your son has such dreams assure him they can come true if he believes and fights to realize his goal. As Disney like to say “dreams can come true as long as ‘You Are Young At Heart”.
FReeper regards.
I hope the Midway movie mentioned is the recently released version about Dick Best, not the earlier abomination with Charlton Heston.
So I have very clear memories of WWII...
Particularly the Pacific Theater since my Dad joined the Marines in Feb 1942 and was in the first wave onto Guadalcanal (1st Division) and, subsequently, several other island amphibious landings,,,
The last one on April fools day in 1945 on Okinawa (6th Division)...
Here is a link to a YouTube playlist that I have compiled of video histories of the Pacific theater land, sea, and air battles...
I made this for my grandchildren and great grandchildren to help understand just how great the United States was back when it was a Nation of freedom, liberty & patriotism...
See your FreeP Mail.
Get him a copy of Midway, the Battle That Doomed Japan by Mitsuo Fuchida.
John Toldand's But Not in Shame has good eyewitness accounts of not only Midway but many of the Pacific battles during the first six months of the war.
My nine year-old is obsessed with Midway and WWII carrier warfare.....
I don’t know where you’re at, but if you’re anywhere near Texas, take him to Fredericksburg and the National Museum of the Pacific War (aka Nimitz museum).
Lots of excellent stuff there.
I read your post back when posted, and thought your son would enjoy a 12 ep series on YouTube. I just searched to find it. It’s called “Battlefield”. Very well done in a very chronological analysis of certain battles. The Midway one was excellent.