[sparklite2]

I’d like to see the same attention paid to Midway, the battle that broke Japan’s back. The story behind it is much more interesting than D-Day. The best D-Day book I have is from the German perspective.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071NTXK2H/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

[hanamizu]

The best D-Day book I have is from the German perspective.

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If you look on YouTube, you can find “Die Deutsche Wochenschau”—Nazi newsreels, many with English subtitles. If you look around the middle of 1944, you’ll run into their view of D-Day as was reported to the German people. I remember one showing American GIs captured. The narrator points out how Americans are a mongrel people and gum chewing really seemed to set them off.

As you get deeper into 1944, the tone changes. “Our brave boys are shifting moving to more defensible positions”, i.e. retreating. Then, in a later broadcast Goebbels says something to the effect “you won’t get into Aachen as easily as you did into Paris or Bucharest”, which I’m sure told the discerning listener that at this point the war was pretty much lost.

[PROCON]

Many old and new movies have been made about the Battle of Midway including 3 movies titled 'Midway' and their remakes.

TCM does a good job of showing them when relevant.

[yarddog]

I watched about a 20 minute video on Midway. It truly was the turning point in the war in the Pacific. Although the Japanese lost four carriers and a lot of pilots and air crew, they still had a formidable navy. Still had adequate pilots and carriers.

I think Midway (and to a lesser extent, Coral Sea) was more psychological than anything. The Japanese realized they were not invincible.

The Americans were still a long way from the massive Navy we had in 1945.

[Grampa Dave]

This was sealed up for 75 years after the Battle of Midway:

Retropolis

Unsealed 75 years after the Battle of Midway: New details of an alarming WWII press leak!: June 5, 2017

Six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the June 7, 1942, edition of the Chicago Sunday Tribune, trumpeted news of a stunning American victory over a Japanese armada at the Battle of Midway.

“Jap Fleet Smashed by U.S.; 2 Carriers Sunk at Midway: 13 to 15 Nippon Ships Hit; Pacific Battle Rages,” the front-page headlines read. And in the center of the page, an intriguing side story: “Navy Had Word of Jap Plan to Strike at Sea.”

It was a fascinating, and detailed, description of much of what American intelligence knew beforehand of the enemy’s fleet and plans. Indeed, it was too detailed.

The report — 14 paragraphs long — suggested a secret U.S. intelligence coup, and it became one of the biggest and potentially damaging news leaks of World War II.

The leak hinted that the United States had cracked a Japanese communications code, sparking fury in the Navy and the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and starting an “espionage” probe by the FBI. It also led to a sensitive grand jury investigation for which testimony would be sealed for more than seven decades.

Excerpted, for full story go to link below:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/05/unsealed-75-years-after-the-battle-of-midway-new-details-of-a-critical-wwii-press-leak/?utm_term=.f04ec108f930

[xkaydet65]

A new movie about Midwsy is in editing right now. Release scheduled for Nov 2019