The Battle of Midway-the naval and air battle that determines the offensive and defensive situation of the Pacific War

Al 2022-12-03 17:36:24

The Battle of Midway Island was a sea and air battle that was decisive for both the United States and Japan in World War II. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States was retreating in the Pacific Ocean, Japan made a plan to defeat the United States’ viable power and force the United States to make peace before the powerful industry of the United States would produce aircraft carriers and aircraft that Japan could not compare. A careful plan to attack Midway Island, an important US stronghold in the Pacific. The end of the naval battle was that although the United States suffered heavy casualties, Japan failed and suffered severely. What's more important is that the Pacific War has become a situation in which the United States attacked and Japan retreated. Japan was defeated for two main reasons: First, the US military intelligence agency deciphered and confirmed with a sub-summary that Japan was about to attack Midway Island, so as not to be confused by Japan's detailed attack on the Aleutian Islands, and deployed the main military force to Midway Island; Then, when the Japanese fleet to attack Midway Island did not find the U.S. forces for a while, it replaced the torpedoes on the aircraft that were ready to attack the US aircraft carrier and replaced them with heavy bombs to launch the second wave of bombing of Midway Island. At that time, American aircraft carriers and fighter-bomber groups appeared. Japanese aircraft carriers had to let the aircraft that bombed Midway Island first fall onto the aircraft carriers, thus delaying the fighter planes. As a result, they were beaten by the U.S. military and never stopped. Get up. It is not easy to show such an unprecedentedly tragic and intense sea-air battle in a movie. It's not easy to make a movie like this. In addition to showing the battle scenes, the film should also show the arrogance and murderousness of the Japanese army and the arrogance and lofty ambition of the entire US army to defeat Japan when it was attacked by Japan in Pearl Harbor and retreated in the Pacific. In the former, the film performed similarly; in the latter, the film was also very careful, but it seemed a bit far-fetched to let the father fly a fighter jet into the sky. The film also inserted an episode in which the father’s pilot son fell in love with a Japanese girl; the father also asked someone to release the girl and her parents from the concentration camp, although during the Second World War there were even naturalized Americans. The fact that Japanese nationals are all locked up in concentration camps, but the insertion of such a paragraph in the film is really redundant, but it dilutes the theme. Of course, from another angle, these episodes were successful.

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Midway quotes

  • Miss Haruko Sakura: I don't love you anymore,

    Lieutenant Tom Garth: Say it to my face.

    [pause]

    Lieutenant Tom Garth: Say it to my face, Goddamit!

  • Captain Garth: [On the phone to his boss] They've taken the bait, Sir. It's Midway!