Seventy-eight years ago this week one of the most, if not the most, important naval battles of WW 2 for the United States took place near Midway Island.

Part One of a Naval Training film from 1950 based upon the 1948 document "NAVPERS 91067, The Battle of Midway Including the Aleutian Phase, June 3 to June 14, 1942: Strategical and Tactical Analysis by Richard W Bates" (later Rear Admiral Bates) at the Naval War college.

I have never been able to find part two of this training film.

Warning!!
Period prejudices towards the Japanese are still very much evident in this 1950 program.

Battle of Midway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgpLzp8TGU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgpLzp8TGU 1942 ARC Identifier 13196 / Local Identifier 80-MN-9168D. Department of the Navy. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Naval Observatory. (1942 - 09/18/1947) Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran.

More reading on the subject of Midway can be found here:
www.history.navy.mil/c...tag=midway

Get the NAVPERS 91067 document here:
www.history.navy.mil/c...p;ts=false


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I thought I had posted Montemayor's video on Midway from the Japanese perspective here last year but I must have forgotten. Since the video series is about Midway I may as well keep it in this thread now.

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After an almost 15 month delay Part Two, which is now Parts Two and Three, of the Midway Battle are out.


The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective (1/3)
Link to video: https://youtu.be/Bd8_vO5zrjo

The Battle of Midway: Hiryu’s Counterstrike (2/3)
Link to video: https://youtu.be/BXjydKPcX60

The Battle of Midway: The American Perspective and The Strategic Consequences of the Battle (3/3)
Link to video: https://youtu.be/WHO6xrSF7Sw

I am not exaggerating when I say his videos rival several that have been professionally done.

Montemayor has several other really good documentaries at his YouTube channel.
Montemayor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX7katl3DVmch4D7LSvqbVQ


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