National Geographic's The Battle for Midway
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Actor: Bob Ballard, John Ford, Peter CoyoteBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
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Movie Review: "Battle of Midway", Turning Point of American Victory over Pacific War !
Summary: 5 Stars
" Battle of Midway",Turning Point of American Victory
On Pacific War!
Carrier USS Hornet based 16 B-25 Mitchell Army Medium bomber's one way ticeted successful
Tokyo Raid made symbolic strikes on Japan Mainlad,on18,April,1942.
Commanding-in-Chief of the Combined japanese Fleet Yammamoto planned Striking US Carriers
which failed on previous "Suprise Attack of Pearl Harbour".
4 important Carriers-Ksga,Soryu,Akagi and Hiryu were mobilized for Operation Midway on 3,June,1942.
on 4,June,1942,Fleets exchanged the serious Air Attacks with TBF Avenger Torpedo Bomber and
successful dive bombing by SBD Dauntless Dive Bombers sunk Kaga and Soryu and USS Yorktown crippled
by Japanese Torpedo bomber and Dive Bombers.On5,JUNE,1942, Japanese remaining Carriers,Akagi and
Hiryu sunk. On 6,JUNE,1942,Japanese withdrawal was made.Later damaged Yorktown was complrtely
crippled by 2 Torpedos and bombs,finally sunk by Jap.Submarine's Torpedo Attack.
National Geographic tried very meaningful works:
1) Recognition of high quality of US.Code breaking Activity.
2) Discovery of sunken USS.Yorktown by Famous Discoverer Dr.Robert Ballard and his teams.
3) Arrangement of both eyewitness(2-American Veterans and 2-Japanese Veterans), witness, and
exchange thrir Friendship--Verry imressive and enotional scenes of elder Veterans!!!!!!
4) Emotional Scenes of USS. Yorktown-- intact Mast,uprised multiple 40mm Anti Aircraft Guns etc.
just slightly tilted almost intact original Carrier!!!!!.
Most important situations of All 4 sunked Japanese Navy and land based 360 lost Airplane means
losted more extensive loss of experienced Pilots and associated Technicians lead to Complete
Defeat of Japanese Air Powers!!!!!!!!!!.
Summary of National Geographic's The Battle for Midway
One thousand miles from anywhere lies a lonely outpost of coral and sea called Midway. It was here in 1942 where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the greatest naval battles of World War II that changed the course of history. And it is here again where Titanic discoverer Dr. Robert Ballard now leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans on the voyage of their lives. They're on a race against time to do the impossible: find at least one of the five downed aircraft carriers, including U.S.S. Yorktown, more than three miles underwater. Hear the heart-wrenching stories of four remarkable men and how each survived the war despite incredible odds. And join them as they pay their final respects to their fallen comrades in THE BATTLE FOR MIDWAY.The man who found the Titanic, Dr. Robert Ballard, took on the greatest technical challenge of his career when he traveled to the Pacific waters off Midway Island, site of a critical turning point of World War II, in search of the sunken aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown. This documentary not only details Ballard's challenge in finding the Yorktown, which rests three miles below the surface, a mile deeper than the Titanic, but also provides an intelligent and gripping narrative of the Battle of Midway, in which four Japanese carriers were also sent to the bottom in a furious day of fighting that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific. On the expedition with Ballard are four veterans, two Japanese and two Americans, who had been involved in the decisive 1942 battle, and who are at times overwhelmed by emotion as Ballard looks for their old ships. The dogged search for a Japanese carrier is fruitless, but finally Ballard finds a debris field that leads him to the Yorktown. Ballard's remarkable underwater cameras scan the great carrier, which rests upright on the ocean floor, its antiaircraft guns still pointed skyward as if to ward off yet another furious Japanese attack. As one might expect from a National Geographic production, this documentary is both intelligently conceived and beautifully photographed. --Robert J. McNamara
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