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| Video: Battle of Midway -- 79th Anniversary |
| 2021-06-04 |
| 79th Anniversary |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #12 Not luck but skill and determination. We cracked the Japanese code. |
| Posted by: Skunky Swedes9228 2021-06-04 22:00 |
| #11 ^ Yeah, I have yet to see a really satisfying explanation of that. Not everyone's a hero. |
| Posted by: Matt 2021-06-04 14:20 |
| #10 Notice that there is very little about the flights from the Hornet. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-06-04 11:33 |
| #9 Some newspaper should have set up a separate website that re-published news day by day as if we were in 1939 or so. Give a feel for the lack of info the average person had at the time. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-06-04 11:31 |
| #8 From my reading, it seems luck or maybe karma played a great part. it becomes intelligible how good luck in War assumes a much nobler nature than good luck at play. -- von Clausewitz |
| Posted by: badanov 2021-06-04 10:45 |
| #7 From my reading, it seems luck or maybe karma played a great part. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2021-06-04 09:58 |
| #6 If you can find a copy, Shattered Sword is about as close to the battle as you can get. The semi-fictional account in Herman Wouk's War and Rememberance is awesome. But you can't do better than Churchill: "The annals of war at sea present no more intense, heart-shaking shock than this battle, in which the qualities of the United States Navy and Air Force and the American race shone forth in splendour. The bravery and self-devotion of the American airmen and sailors and the nerve and skill of their leaders was the foundation of all." |
| Posted by: Matt 2021-06-04 08:35 |
| #5 ^They're very bad at game design? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-04 04:31 |
| #4 ...Interesting bit of trivia: the US Naval War College has continued to wargame Midway at least once a year since the late 40s. They have never again been able to reproduce a US victory of any kind. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-06-04 04:18 |
| #3 ... When We Were Great |
| Posted by: Elmineting Glinesh2916 2021-06-04 01:12 |
| #2 Got the big 8-0 this year on 7 December. |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-06-04 00:55 |
| #1 Contemporary newsreel by the great Hollywood director John Ford, "The Battle of Midway" |
| Posted by: Zorba Ebbusoger7406 2021-06-04 00:49 |