Was that old movie “Wing and a Prayer” with Don Ameche? I always thought it was about Midway but it might have been about the Battle of the Coral Sea.
They made a 1976 movie called “Midway” with an all star cast: Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Robert Mitchem, and many others including a lot of TV actors.
It was pretty good.