Horrible conflagration destroyed much of our Pacific Fleet in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor attack Dec. 7, 1941. Click once to enlarge. Still image by Paul Goldfinger from the movie Midway; streaming on Netflix.
US ships being destroyed during the Japanese surprise air attack. Still photos by Paul Goldfinger from the 2019 movie Midway. More photos on Dec. 7 tomorrow.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger. net
Fortunately, our air craft carriers were 170 miles at sea.
US Intelligence went right to work to plan an attack on the Japanese Navy.
6 months later, the US Navy destroyed the Japanese air craft carriers. (four) in the Battle of Midway. –June 4-7, 1942. And they also demolished their naval fighter force along with some of their elite pilots. It was a great victory.
The photographs above are still images by Paul Goldfinger from the marvelous movie called MIDWAY—streaming on Netflix.
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