Battle of Midway

[Boaz]

Battle of Midway in 1942 documented by John Ford .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkiXHKeMC9k

[DCP]

Great Post

John Ford did many of these

Lets we forget

[Walla2]

Thanks

[w5pv]

Give thanks to our Savior that we were on the winning side and pray for all the lost lives on both sides that was incurred

[popper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9EBemu3T5o Marianas turkey shoot. A doc I knew had 8mm of mostly pacific battles he showed me when I was a kid. No clue where he got them unless he took them. Way before I saw the Victory At Sea TV series. I think Cronkite announced most of what I saw on TV which was strange as he was a major pacifist.

[Thumbcocker]

Ensign Gay had a somewhat soggy ringside seat.

[jimlj]

Wow. Thanks for the post.
My Dad was there on the USS Portland. I am reading a book about "Sweet Pea" as we speak.

[M-Tecs]

The WW2 film crews did things no sane person would do. In Europe they would go behind enemy line to film troop advancement so both side shot at them.

[Boaz]

John Ford was wounded several times , he was wounded during this filming by shrapnel . Several ariel photographers were lost over the course of the war .

[Blackwater]

Naval battles are spectacular events. And you can't walk away and try to find another spot to fight from! You're there, and it's sink or swim, fight or die. They're very desperate affairs, and require EVERYONE aboard doing their job perfectly and without hesitation. It's a very humbling thing to staff a real fighting ship! God bless those who did what was necessary. I know my Dad was on the Yorktown, but don't believe he was on it when it went down. Nimitz will always rank among my all time favorite and most respected fighting men in our history!

[poppy42]

Hey guys a little off topic but I just watched a movie called The Zoo Keeper's Wife. I highly recommend. About a zookeeper and his wife had saved 300 Jews from the gas chambers at Auschwitz during the occupation of Warsaw. I thought it was pretty damn good movie check it out if you get the chance
Least we never forget !

[Blackwater]

Thanks, Poppy. Not that many movies worth going to see these days. I may well try to go see that one. I love a good movie, but they're SO rare today!

[Thumbcocker]

If you can find "The Battle of Sevastopol" on Amazon or Netflix it is fantastic. It is about a female red army sniper (she was Ukrainian) with 300 confirmed kills. The action sequences are awesome. She got to meet Eleanor Roosevelt on a trip to the US and was a real hero. She also had serious PTSD issues. We don't get to hear much about the fighting for the Crimea but it was hard and bloody.

[bob208]

midway was the first naval battle where the ships never saw each other.

[Wayne Smith]

midway was the first naval battle where the ships never saw each other.

Nope, that was the Battle of the Coral Sea. A month or so earlier.