The short film focuses on the island proper during the battle, but the real action took place at sea. Nonetheless, the film reminds us that real Americans fought the war and that they were our neighbors, fathers, uncles. Interesting look at the battle, but light on naval action rclo 2011-07-11 02:03:02 2011-07-11 02:03:02 4 Unquestionably Midway was a stunning, lopsided US victory, and the turning point of the Pacific war. However this wartime propaganda piece is misleading or blatantly inaccurate in several areas. It does not mention the successful Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor and invasions of Attu and Kiska, which were part of Japan's Midway operations. The USAAF attacks on the Japanese invasion force had no success, and the Army and Marine, Midway-launched strikes on the Japanese carrier force were costly, complete failures. The loss of the carrier USS Yorktown isn't mentioned. The claim "28 Jap battleships, cruisers, destroyers sunk or damaged," in addition to the 4 carriers sunk, is wildly inaccurate. The actual Japanese warship losses from all five of their task forces were: 4 carriers sunk (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, Soryu) 1 heavy cruiser sunk (Mikuma) 1 heavy cruiser damaged (Mogami) Well, it was wartime and Midway was our first major victory, so all of the above can be forgiven. However it does significantly reduce this movie short's documentary value. A highly accurate, capsule view of the Midway battle is found here: http://combinedfleet.com/battles/Battle_of_Midway A detailed view of the entire battle including a timeline is found here: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=6 Inaccurate home-front morale booster picfixer 2011-07-12 03:40:52 2011-07-11 15:02:11 2 there's a better quality print here at FedFlix http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.65422.b there's a better quality print Jilly9 2012-01-22 18:39:24 2012-01-22 18:39:24 0 3 3.00