Midway

[TheBookie]

Since the Anniversary of the Battle of Midway is upon us I thought I'd up;oad a few pics of the Japanese carriers hit and burning.There is also a pic of Shokaku burning from action at the Coral Sea.

TheBookie

 

[Roxane-21]

Since the Anniversary of the Battle of Midway is upon us I thought I'd up;oad a few pics of the Japanese carriers hit and burning.There is also a pic of Shokaku burning from action at the Coral Sea.

TheBookie

Just to be fair, maybe you should add a picture of the USS Yorktown burning and sinking...

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Good morning,

Dasuto247 - I have been aware of this and showed my students the "Battlefield" episode in its entirety. I like the film "Midway," but the documentary is far better.

 

[kelticheart]

Good morning,

Dasuto247 - I have been aware of this and showed my students the "Battlefield" episode in its entirety. I like the film "Midway," but the documentary is far better.

...particularly because the Midway move budget for aerial sequences must have not been that great....

Although I do love it as well, I bought the VHS tape when it was released, then the DVD so that I can enjoy its original language soundtrack, its aerial sequence work could, at least, have been a tad more accurate to avoid gross historical errors.

All Japanese side aerial pics were taken from "Tora, Tora, Tora", which would not have been that bad, the AT-6 Zero replicas and BT-13 Kate/Val replicas were the same planes, after all. It becomes painful when aerial battles are shown with the shooting down of Heinkels or Stukas from the 1968 Battle of Britain movie, P-40's scrambling from Haleiwa ("Tora, Tora, Tora") while P-40B's never fought at Midway, colourised WWII footage of scrambles on US carriers showing Hellcats, which at the time were still on the drawing board, Charlton Heston teaming up with SB2U Vindicators instead of SBD Dauntlesses, Heston's son (in the movie) crash landing is the famous sequence of, again, an F6F missing the cable and crashing against the ship's superstructure breaking in two, quick shots of Corsairs with their guns blazing, yet only prototypes in June of 1942, and so on.
Watch the movie trailer here, to see what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMrVTMRbtJg

Even Heston's disastrous, fatal carrier landing, towards the end of the movie, is actually a famous documentary of a F8F Panther impact against the carrier landing deck and stern during the Korean War. The fixed wingtip tanks and cone nose of the Panther are clearly visible!

I have seen a number of WWII documentaries shot during the Midway period that would have been much more accurate for this movie. The actor cast was impressive with the number of stars acting in it, the script was historically accurate, apart from the unnecessary romantic tale of Heston's son engaged to a Japanese-American woman interned after Pearl Harbour.

I could never understand why the producers of such a milestone movie did not pay a lot of attention to the true focus of the Midway Battle and its pivotal point in history, that is naval aviation!

You did right showing your kids the Battlefield series episode, instead!

Cheers!
KH

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Stefano,

They use that exact same plane Panther footage in "The Hunt for Red October," where a F-14 Tomcat does the same metamorphosis.

In the Midway film behind the scenes look, they discuss using stock footage to keep down cost.

 

[dasuto247]

Since the Anniversary of the Battle of Midway is upon us I thought I'd up;oad a few pics of the Japanese carriers hit and burning.There is also a pic of Shokaku burning from action at the Coral Sea.

TheBookie

Which ships are you using? Never seen these before. Where can I get them?

 

[Maxstuka]

Since the Anniversary of the Battle of Midway is upon us I thought I'd up;oad a few pics of the Japanese carriers hit and burning.There is also a pic of Shokaku burning from action at the Coral Sea.

TheBookie

nice pictures, this kaga model, is a usio model?, nice texture.

 

[kelticheart]

Stefano,

They use that exact same plane Panther footage in "The Hunt for Red October," where a F-14 Tomcat does the same metamorphosis.

Man, you are right! I forgot that!

In the Midway film behind the scenes look, they discuss using stock footage to keep down cost.

......No problem with that. Yet they could have used, at least, correct stock footage.

Cheers!
KH

 

[TheBookie]

Which ships are you using? Never seen these before. Where can I get them?

They are the old Aerosim IJN Carriers. I bought them long ago before others started making more ships for CFS2.

TheBookie