Midway-WW2 Dogfight and action scenes Part 2 of 2

This is the 2nd video of the scenes from "Midway". I cut out scenes from the movie "Midway" to make a full video about all of the action. The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in the Pacific for the United States. It took place from June 4th-June 7th 1942, ending in victory for the United States.

Enjoy!

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Midway
• Battle
• naval
• Japanese
• American
• WW2
• dogfights

[ericsantiago011]

wat is the title of this movie

[collegefootballrulez]

@ericsantiago011 The title is "Midway".

[Rikki0]

It was a great movie and for the most part fairly accurate. Sadly, the Hollywood types just could not help themselves. There was not a single Kamikaze attack, nor even a wounded Japanese who decided to give his all and crash into the Hornet or any other ship, during the Battle of Midway.

[hill9868]

@galoon No, but it did equip squadrons of New Zealand's air-force. The US-built aircraft the Australians used during WW2 were the P-40, the P-51, the B-25 and B-24, the PBY and the TBF. You are right about the SBD's quality- it proved a very sturdy machine that Japanese fighter pilots found difficult to shoot down and it also had a lower rate of flight deck crashes than other US types. Many carrier pilots preferred it over its intended replacement-the SB2 Helldiver.

[hill9868]

@galoon US Historian Barrett Tilmann says that the two biggest advantages the Japanese navy had during the war was a better quality torpedo and better carrier-borne reconaissance aircraft. But the scout pilots of Nagumo's fleet under-performed at Midway- one scout plane flew right over the US task force without spotting them and scout no 4 from the Tone only found the US carriers because it veered off course and was late in taking off. Had it taken off on schedule, it would have found nothing.

[galoon]

@hill9868 Also a good point you made on the IJN dive-bomber pilots--they had a good stable aircraft in the Aichi D3A "Val." I read somewhere that their pilots put 80% of their bombs on target overall, which is incredible. The US Douglas SBD was a fine dive-bomber as well; it had the lowest loss rate of any US naval aircraft. I think it equipped a number of Australian squadrons as well.

[galoon]

@hill9868 All good points you mentioned--the Battle of Coral Sea had a huge impact on what would (or wouldn't) happen at Midway. One Japanese strike (100+ aircraft) couldn't find the Lexington or the Yorktown, but sank a destroyer and the oiler USS Neosho instead! One of the good things about this film is it touches on the many problems of aerial navigation in a WWII naval battle. With the Japanese advantage not only in numbers, but in combat experience, it's remarkable that the US won Midway.

[hill9868]

@galoon Very true. And there are more 'what ifs'. What if Stanhope Ring had flown in the right direction and the Hornet's dive-bombers had found Nagumo's carriers as well. What if the IJN destroyer Arashi hadn't led Wade McClusky's dive-bombers to the Jap carriers. What if the carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku hadn't got knocked about at Coral Sea and had been at Midway too. What if the battle had been fought a few days later then June 4th so the carrier USS Wasp had been able to participate.

[galoon]

@hill9868 True, this battle could easily have gone either way. Had the radio been working on the Soryu's scout plane, had Nagumo decided not to re-arm the torpedo planes with bombs after the first Midway strike, had the Japanese found our carriers before we found theirs...any one of these could have resulted in a Japanese victory here. So many battles in history have come down to pure chance.

[KingSofttn]

Đấy là phim gì zậy chòi

[canon21100]

@SpenzOT Yeah, Midway was in Sensaround

[jaredlee283]

LOL @6:00 - @6:03 "This is whirlwi~IN THE AIR DAI BOMBA!!!!"