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Midway 2019 #1 at the Box Office!
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| 11-10-2019
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Posted on 11/11/2019 10:47:29 AM PST by Calif Conservative
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To: RWGinger
Hmmm.
They didn’t dedicate it to the Japanese who captured the American naval pilots who ditched during the Battle of Midway, tortured them for information, then bound them in chains and threw them over the side fully conscious while the crew looked on...did they?
I don’t mind recognizing that there were enemy personnel on all sides who were moral and compassionate when it was called for, because it is true that there were. I just have distaste for virtue signalling and accepting a moral equivalency.
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posted on
11/11/2019 11:57:04 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: Sans-Culotte
Thanks for that explanation. When you said “when one comes along that celebrates American heroism, it deserves to be supported” I agree wholeheartedly.
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posted on
11/11/2019 11:58:33 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
There were four at the actual battle of Midway, the 4 that that USA killed.
So it is correct to say there were 4 Japanese carriers in the active battle zone
Zuiho — and the main invasion force — never got close enough to the actual kill zone where the combat took place
the US admirals withdrew back towards Pearl Harbor to avoid a night engagement on June 4th
The Japanese advanced with the main fleet briefly during the night — hoping to lure the US carriers —
but IJN realized their battleships and any carrier with the main invasion fleet would be vulnerable to both the US carriers as well as the attack aircraft on the atoll — so they slunk back to Japan at daylight on June 5
To: gaijin
I hope Matt didn’t wreck “Ford vs Ferrari”!
I’ve been waiting for it for 6 months.
Always wanted a Mk1 GT40 in the garage.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:00:09 PM PST
by
Zathras
To: Magnum44
Perhaps not, but they did talk to their friends in the service about their fears (again, this fact is in their writings) and some of that is going to be in the film.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:02:37 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: billyboy15
LOL...always, except for...”The Next One”!
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:03:33 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: gaijin
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:06:08 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: BuffaloJack
GMTA, BuffaloJack. I wrote this post sometime back:
The scale of the battle was huge. The stakes were high. The sub-plots were astounding.
Halsey, itching for a fight, taking the bait, and through a common clerical error which threw gasoline on the fire, ends up to his dying days fighting what he viewed as slander by people who questioned his actions, all under the shadow of the words "The world wonders".
On the other side, almost simultaneously, the Davids of the US Navy in Taffy3 against the Goliaths of the Imperial Japanese Navy and their battleships, darting in, really, the unbelievable parallel to "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
The destroyers of Taffy 3 with bones in their teeth sailed directly at the Japanese battlewagons, their five inch guns like the sabres of the Light Brigade being flashed in the air, they "Volley'd and thunder'd" like hooves, as the superstructures of the battleships flashed with impacts. They sailed under full steam to what many of them, like the calvary in Tennyson's poem, assumed was going to be their certain death..."Someone had blunder'd".
Halsey, in full pursuit to the north, gets the communication from his boss who is trying to discreetly ask what Halsey was up to without ruffling his feathers, ending with Halsey losing it on the bridge of the New Jersey and throwing his hat to the floor in white hot anger and shame as "All the world wonder'd" in Hawaii what was going on.
You could not make this up.
And then, Typhoon Cobra just a month or two later.
With the way they could use computer graphics to recreate that, with the real, unadulterated story line from history, that would be quite the production.
"The Battle of Leyte Gulf".
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:06:16 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: Calif Conservative
“God has watched out for the United States from Plymouth Rock onward”
He seems to have gone to sleep sometime around 2008.
To: gaijin
In *some* cases (aside from heavy seas), WW2 carrier aviators would use a sort of ‘pop-up’ maneuver to land if they knew they were coming in too fast and didn’t want to go around. It was an attempt to (more or less) stall and drop the plane on the deck - there’s a video on YouTube of that.
As for the bombed civilian - didn’t one of the Raiders who crashed in China actually record that happening in his memoirs?
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:12:06 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: rlmorel
Yes, and now you’re using eyesearing font size and BOLD to repeat yourself. UGh.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:12:47 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Calif Conservative
I will be seeing “Ford vs Ferrari” on its opening night this Friday. I wonder how it will fare?
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:15:12 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
("Progressives" want government in action. Conservatives want government inaction.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
God never sleeps - we just need to perceive His wisdom
To: gaijin
I watched all of the episodes and was instantly hooked. Be sure to check other videos from Montemayor.
EVERYONE HERE will LOVE this Midway analysis.
Annoyingly, my stupid link starts you midway through, but manually you can start from the beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&t=0s
No super graphics, but in 5 minutes I think you will be drawn in, and held to the finish.
Makes it all really clear, 5 million views.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:30:11 PM PST
by
Dacula
(Epstein did not kill himself.)
To: BuffaloJack
My Dad was on Yorktown at Midway and West Virginia at Leyte Gulf.
To: Nothingburger
Yeah, Rotten Tomatoes currently has Midway with 42/92 critic/audience scores. If I use scores to decide what to watch, I always go with audience scores.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:32:33 PM PST
by
be-baw
To: Jim Noble
“Shattered Sword “, thanks I have been trying to remember the name of that book for the last week. I heard it was excellent.
To: Calif Conservative
Many years ago, I used to play a computer game called Midway by Avalon Hill company. It was a mostly real time mostly text game. In that game, the Zuiho and the main invasion force were there. On occasion, the scout planes would locate it.
My goal was to sink the main four and then go for the ultimate goal of sinking the Zuiho with either US task force. I only got her once.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:35:43 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
To: Dacula
Aha..!
I see you are correct.
I see that years ago I also saw his best-ever PEARL HARBOR analysis, and that one, too, was just stellar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cz9gtMTeI
The best Pearl Harbor analysis I ever saw, I had simply lost the link.
THANK YOU for leading me back to that great net place.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:35:46 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
The Dauntless dive bomber. Along with the PBY Catalina, a history-changing weapons system.
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posted on
11/11/2019 12:36:49 PM PST
by
91B40
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