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Dauntless: The Battle of Midway

Eh, the airfield's wrecked, but it could've been helda lot worse

Eh, the airfield's wrecked, but it could've been held
a lot worse

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- Eh, the airfield's wrecked,
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but it could've been held a lot worse.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
01:02:36
Uploaded
Jun 12, 2025
Genres
action, adventure, history
Production
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Movie Summary

Actual events as written by carrier pilots at the time of the battle of Midway, Computer-generated imagery but it's so good you have a hard time telling it!
- The Marines flew every fighter they could get in the air - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:07
- The Marines flew every fighter they could get in the air
- The good news is the Navy scratched four Jap flattops. - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
- The good news is the Navy scratched four Jap flattops.
She's still afloat, but that's about it. - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
She's still afloat, but that's about it.
- Carrier planes were slaughtered - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:08
- Carrier planes were slaughtered
- Let's just say that there's not enough pilots - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:05
- Let's just say that there's not enough pilots
- You know, we were in the thick of it earlier, - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:06
- You know, we were in the thick of it earlier,
- Those were Hornet and Yorktown birds - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
- Those were Hornet and Yorktown birds
- Uh, yeah, I'm... - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
- Uh, yeah, I'm...
Eels - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
Eels
Half of them were in my class in Pensacola. - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
Half of them were in my class in Pensacola.
Tom Schneider, Frank Weber, - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:06
Tom Schneider, Frank Weber,
He and I got into some, uh, disagreements - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:06
He and I got into some, uh, disagreements
Well, it was a positively frigid - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:07
Well, it was a positively frigid
We had just been given holiday shore leave, - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:09
We had just been given holiday shore leave,
There were aviators everywhere, - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:12
There were aviators everywhere,
Whiskey, a little sugar, - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
Whiskey, a little sugar,
We had plans to do our time - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:07
We had plans to do our time
- Of course he's gonna scare the hell out of the passengers - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:06
- Of course he's gonna scare the hell out of the passen...
- So I'm thinking you make a better flight engineer - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:04
- So I'm thinking you make a better flight engineer
- Which means you can have the co-pilot seat - Dauntless: The Battle of Midway 00:06
- Which means you can have the co-pilot seat