[Bender2]

Re: Director John Ford was on the Hornet at Midway.

Sorry, you are wrong.

John Ford was on the island of Midway, not the USS Hornet during the battle. He grabbed his 16mm film camera and used it to shoot most of his Academy Award winning 1941 semi-documentary The Battle of Midway That same year he also did the Torpedo Squadron documentary.

BTW from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ford : "Ford was present on Omaha Beach on D-Day. As head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services, he crossed the English Channel on the USS Plunkett (DD-431), anchored off Omaha Beach at 0600. He observed the first wave land on the beach from the ship, landing on the beach himself later with a team of US Coast Guard cameramen who filmed the battle from behind the beach obstacles, with Ford directing operations. The film was edited in London, but very little was released to the public. Ford explained in a 1964 interview that the US Government was "afraid to show so many American casualties on the screen", adding that all of the D-Day film "still exists in color in storage in Anacostia near Washington, D.C."

[TonyInOhio]

Sorry, you are wrong.

And not for the first time, I might add. :)

Thanks for the correction.

[FDNYRHEROES]

Sorry, you are wrong. John Ford was on the island of Midway, not the USS Hornet during the battle. He grabbed his 16mm film camera and used it to shoot most of his Academy Award winning 1941 semi-documentary The Battle of Midway That same year he also did the Torpedo Squadron documentary.

Sorry you are wrong. The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in December 1941. The Battle of Midway was 6 months later in 1942.