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2021-06-04 China-Japan-Koreas

Video: Battle of Midway -- 79th Anniversary

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Posted by badanov 2021-06-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Contemporary newsreel by the great Hollywood director John Ford, "The Battle of Midway"

Posted by Zorba Ebbusoger7406 2021-06-04 00:49|| 2021-06-04 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Got the big 8-0 this year on 7 December.

Posted by Clem 2021-06-04 00:55|| 2021-06-04 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3 ... When We Were Great

Posted by Elmineting Glinesh2916 2021-06-04 01:12|| 2021-06-04 01:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-04 04:18|| Front Page Top

#5 ^They're very bad at game design?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-04 04:31|| 2021-06-04 04:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-04 08:35|| Front Page Top

#7 From my reading, it seems luck or maybe karma played a great part.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-06-04 09:58|| 2021-06-04 09:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-04 10:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-04 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Notice that there is very little about the flights from the Hornet.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-04 11:33|| 2021-06-04 11:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-04 14:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Not luck but skill and determination. We cracked the Japanese code.

Posted by Skunky Swedes9228 2021-06-04 22:00|| 2021-06-04 22:00|| Front Page Top

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