My late Father fought in the Battle of Midway. I’ll have to check out the film.
https://youtu.be/Pnvv8TwGa9I
US Navy Squadron Torpedo 8.
Director John Ford filmed this when the navy contacted him to film the battle of midway before it got underway. He caught live footage of the Japanese bombing the island.
A couple days before the battle he filmed this of the Hornet’s torpedo bomber squadron that was wiped out at Midway attacking the Japanese fleet. Only George Gay survived. They didn’t get any hits either.
A horrified John Ford kept much of this out of his movie about the battle but made this for the families of the TBD torpedo bomber crews and reformatted it in 8mm so they could watch it on home projectors.