The Battle of Midway | 1942 Academy Award Winning WWII Documentary

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[00:00:00][music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [bell] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> A Navy patrol plane.

[00:00:52]Routine patrol.

[00:00:54]>> [music] >> Only behind every cloud may be an enemy.

[00:01:05]>> [music] [music] >> Midway Island.

[00:01:14]Not much land, right enough.

[00:01:17]But it's our outpost.

[00:01:19]Your front yard.

[00:01:21]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> These are the natives of Midway.

[00:02:12]Tojo has sworn to liberate them.

[00:02:18]>> [music] [music] [music] >> The birds seem nervous.

[00:02:36]There's something in the air.

[00:02:39]Something behind that sunset.

[00:02:46]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Excitement this morning. [music] The dawn patrol has sighted an enemy fleet.

[00:03:27]During the night, flying fortresses had landed at Midway.

[00:03:31]>> [music] >> A historic council of war is held.

[00:03:38]>> [music] [music] >> That fellow's walk looks familiar.

[00:03:49]>> [music] >> My neighbor's boy used to amble along just like that.

[00:03:57]Say, is that one of them flying fortresses? Yes, ma'am, it is.

[00:04:02]>> [music] [music] >> Why, that's young Will Kinney. He's from my hometown, Springfield, Ohio.

[00:04:17]He's not going to fly that great big bomber. Yes, ma'am, that's his job. He's the skipper. Will's dad is an engineer.

[00:04:25]38 years on the old Ironton Railroad.

[00:04:30]>> [music] >> And his mother, huh.

[00:04:33]Well, she's just like the rest of us mothers in Springfield or any other American town. And his sister, Patricia.

[00:04:40]She's about as pretty as they come. I'll say so.

[00:04:44]Well, Junior Kinney.

[00:05:05]Good luck.

[00:05:07]God bless you, son.

[00:05:43]Suddenly, from behind the clouds, the Japs attack.

[00:06:07]THEY'RE ON THE MARINES.

[00:06:36]>> [music] [music] >> YES.

[00:07:22]THIS REALLY HAPPENED.

[00:07:51]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> MEANWHILE, our warship stopped the [ __ ] fleet.

[00:09:33]>> [music] >> Then suddenly, the trap is sprung.

[00:10:02]>> [music] [music] >> Navy planes roared from the decks of our carriers, army bombers, marines under destruction over a 300 MILE BATTLE AREA.

[00:11:20]THE INVASION FORCES WERE hit and hit and hit again.

[00:11:27]>> [music] >> Men and women of America, here come your neighbors' sons [music] home from the day's work.

[00:11:37]You want to meet them.

[00:11:39]There's Jimmy Thach, seven meatballs on his plane.

[00:11:47]>> [music] >> How many more today, skipper?

[00:11:53]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Back at Midway, Tojo swore he'd liberate the natives.

[00:12:29]They seem just as free as they ever were.

[00:12:35]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> The Battle of Midway is over.

[00:13:04]Our front yard is safe, but a big job is still to be done.

[00:13:08]Day after day our [music] patrol planes search for survivors, every tiny coral reef, every distant mile of sea, search for men who fought to the last round of ammunition and flew to the [music] last drop of gas and then crashed into the sea.

[00:13:26]Eight days, nine days, 10 days without food or water.

[00:13:34]His first [music] cigarette.

[00:13:36]Boy, that first drag sure tastes good.

[00:13:40]>> [music] >> 11 days.

[00:13:47]Well [music] done, Massey Hughes.

[00:13:55]Logan [music] Ramsey.

[00:14:06]>> [music] >> Frank Fesler.

[00:14:09]That's 13 for Frank.

[00:14:18]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Get those boys to the hospital.

[00:14:43]Please do, quickly.

[00:14:45]Get them to clean cots and cool sheets.

[00:14:49]Get them doctors and medicine and nurses' soft hands.

[00:14:54]Get them to the hospital.

[00:14:56]Hurry, please.

[00:14:58]There was a hospital, clean, orderly, 100 beds, and on its roof the red cross [music] plainly marked, the symbol of mercy the enemy was bound to respect.

[00:15:13]>> [music] >> The next morning divine services were held beside a bomb crater that had once been a chapel.

[00:15:27]At eventide we buried our heroic dead.

[00:15:31]The last salute from their comrades and their officers.

[00:15:36]>> [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> Captain Simard of the Navy.

[00:16:03]Colonel Shannon.

[00:16:04]>> [singing] >> Major Roosevelt.

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