Midway (2019)

Cool!  Looking forward to that one.  One of my brothers finished basic training and came home on leave and we went to see Midway in sensurround.  Opening footage under the wing of a B-25 Doolittle raider ready launch.  I remeber the seats shaking.  I imagine my 7.1 surround will deliver when it comes out to rent!

If you don't mind, recap the Japanese movie titles.

Dauntless looks pretty terrific to me. My kind of story like chapter two of the Nordhoff and Hall Trilogy about Bligh and his officers in the open boat.

The Kleiss interview is online. I'll look for it, it's pretty entertaining.

As far as why it went the way it did, a very productive discussion. My overview is that the Japanese just took too many risks and inevitably suffered for the resultant glitches.

I don't think Walter Lord quite has it correct, although his account is pretty valuable.

And of course maybe McClusky had it right. The Devil's math. Whats a couple of dozen aviators and a dozen aircraft lost when you destroy the enemies fleet? Maybe that last 30 minutes in search of the carriers took a fighter pilots mentality.

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I went to a presentation by "Dusty" Kleiss' (she pronounced it "Kleese") daughter where they showed some video interviews with him.

He really hated McClusky. Kleiss was a career dive bomber pilot, I think enlisted in 1936. McClusky came aboard Enterprise in VF-6, only to later be named to lead SB-6.

Kleiss thought that they went too far at too fast an airspeed to ever return to ship, and were only lucky to find her when they were either ditched or flying dry.

Movie looks flashy but fun.

 

 

I’ve read McCluskey’s and Best’s interviews on their role in the battle. Each tells in a favorable way for themselves without damning the other, but leaving inference as to the others’ actions open to the reader. 

Call those minutes of history, blind luck, good fortune, divine intervention, or synchronicity, they happened.

The movie does look like it has potential. As usual, the CGI folks look to go overboard. But I think between this and the also upcoming ”Dauntless”, as well as some recent Japanese movies, we will have some new takes in cinema on this battle.

I went to a presentation by "Dusty" Kleiss' (she pronounced it "Kleese") daughter where they showed some video interviews with him.

He really hated McClusky. Kleiss was a career dive bomber pilot, I think enlisted in 1936. McClusky came aboard Enterprise in VF-6, only to later be named to lead SB-6.

Kleiss thought that they went too far at too fast an airspeed to ever return to ship, and were only lucky to find her when they were either ditched or flying dry.

Movie looks flashy but fun.