In the film, the events begin with the distant 1937 and the prophetic words of Admiral Yamamoto that Japan would then attack when the United States cut off its oil supplies.
After that, the short Pearl Harbor line starts with the so-called aircraft carrier "Enterprise" Richard Best (the aircraft carrier survived both on December 7, 1941 and June 4, 1942) and his fellow officer of the battleship "Arizona" (sunk on December 7, 1941).
By attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan, according to Yamamoto, woke up and angered the giant.
Later, Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, and the crew of the aircraft carrier Enterprise become the main characters of the film.
The events of the film jump through all the significant campaigns of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War in the first half of 1942:
- raid on Japanese bases in the Marshall Islands (bombers destroyed on the ground and a downed Japanese bomber that fell on the deck of an aircraft carrier - real events)
- Colonel Dolittle's Tokyo Raid (April 18, 1942)
- The Battle of the Coral Sea (May 8, 1942)
- Preparations for the Battle of Midway (late May-early June 1942)
- The Battle of Midway (June 4, 1942).
The specifics of this historical film, as for me:
- show the feat of real heroes, not some fictional ones;
- show real locations that were related to the fighting, in particular, the port of Hakirajima (the starting point of the Japanese squadron to attack Midway) and the Japanese-occupied China;
- attention to the smallest historical details, in particular:
- The scenario of an unknown Japanese officer at the war games, which accurately reproduced further real events, but was rejected by the Japanese admirals;
- Breaking the Japanese naval cipher and checking Midway as a target by falsely openly reporting a lack of fresh water at. Midway;
- Emergency patching of the aircraft carrier Yorktown right on the move before the battle
- Shooting defense of Midway directed by.
- Accurate translation of all aspects of the Battle of Midway, including the destruction of 3 Japanese aircraft carriers in a matter of minutes.
Clarence Mcluskey, James Doolittle, William Halsey, Raymond Spruance and Richard Halsey "Dick" Best, mentioned in this film, are famous American pilots and admirals, heroes of both the Battle of Midway and the entire Second World War. This battle marked the end of the age of battleships and the dawn of a new era, the age of aircraft carriers.
In short, this film is an accurate, albeit artistic, chronicle of the turning point in the Second World War in the Pacific Ocean ("Pacific Stalingrad"), which is worth watching, because in the hell of the Second World War, the world that we know was born - with democracy, human rights and scientific and technological progress. Watch USA online porn https://mat6tube.com teens, milfs, matures!
