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dronescapesvideos · 5 months

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U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of Marine Scouting Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241) in flight over Midway

➤➤ BATTLE OF MIDWAY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/joqaga0tpyg

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theworldatwar · 7 months

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A US Navy Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of bombing squadron VB-8 on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) during the Battle of Midway in 1942 CREDIT : Royston Leonard

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captain-price-unofficially · 3 months

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Battle of Midway, June 1942. USS Yorktown CV-5 lists heavily after she was abandoned during the afternoon of 4 June 1942. Note that two F4F-4 Wildcat fighters are still parked on her flight deck, aft of the island

#wwii #naval #battle of midway #june #pacific theater

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floridaboiler · 11 months

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source - https://twitter.com/changnoi2018

#Battle of Midway

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lonestarbattleship · 2 years

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#USS Enterprise (CV-6)#USS Enterprise #Yorktown Class #Aircraft Carrier #meme #world war ii #world war 2 #WWII #WW2 #imperial japanese navy #ijn #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #Battle of Midway #my post

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aviationgeek71 · 11 months

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June 3, 1942, first contact! This simple message back to Pearl Harbor was all that U.S. Naval command needed to hear. Their intelligence was correct... target, Midway!

#battle of midway #this day in history #on this day in history #historical quotes

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rooster-does-art · 1 year

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"Far from shore, a pacific war

Bombs are falling from the skies

It's a bomb run day, it's the naval way

A bloodred sun is on the rise"

- Midway, Sabaton

#Art #Random Art #USS Yorktown #CV-5 #Battle Of Midway #Midway #History #Sabaton #MLP #Carrier #Aircraft Carrier #Ship-pone #My poor baby girl #She didn't deserve to go so early

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carbone14 · 1 year

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Douglas TBD-1 Devastator du 8e Escadron de torpilleurs (VT-8) – Midway – 1942

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#WWII #Artwork #Bataille de Midway #Battle of Midway #Marine américaine #US Navy #8e Escadron de torpilleurs US #VT-8 #Aviation militaire #Military aviation #Bombardier-torpilleur #Torpedo-Bomber #Bombardier-torpilleur embarqué #Carrier-based torpedo-Bomber #Douglas TBD Devastator #Devastator #Iles Midway #Midway Islands #1942

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usafphantom2 · 11 months

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WWII by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: Grumman TBF-1 (Bureau # 00380) Avenger of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8), photographed at Midway, 24-25 June 1942, prior to shipment back to the United States for post-battle evaluation. This badly damaged plane was the only survivor of six VT-8 TBFs that had attacked the Japanese carrier force in the morning of 4 June.

#Grumman TBF Avenger #Grumman TBM Avenger #TBM Avenger #WWII #Battle of Midway #VT-8 #flickr

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playitagin · 11 months

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1942-Battle of Midway

4.June 15:00 Yorktown abandoned,16:10 Soryū sunk,17:00 Dive bombers attack on Hiryū,19:25 Kaga sunk. 5.June 05:00 Akagi sunk, 09:00 Hiryū sunk. 6.june 07:00. Yorktown sunk.

#Jun.4-6.1942 #Battle of Midway #history today

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nebris · 2 years

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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.[6][7][8] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare",[9] while naval historian Craig Symonds called it "one of the most consequential naval engagements in world history, ranking alongside Salamis, Trafalgar, and Tsushima Strait, as both tactically decisive and strategically influential".[10]

Luring the American aircraft carriers into a trap and occupying Midway was part of an overall "barrier" strategy to extend Japan's defensive perimeter, in response to the Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. This operation was also considered preparatory for further attacks against Fiji, Samoa, and Hawaii itself. The plan was undermined by faulty Japanese assumptions of the American reaction and poor initial dispositions. Most significantly, American cryptographers were able to determine the date and location of the planned attack, enabling the forewarned U.S. Navy to prepare its own ambush.

Four Japanese and three American aircraft carriers participated in the battle. The four Japanese fleet carriers—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, and Hiryū, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier—were sunk, as was the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The U.S. lost the carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann, while the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet survived the battle fully intact.

After Midway and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's capacity to replace its losses in materiel (particularly aircraft carriers) and men (especially well-trained pilots and maintenance crewmen) rapidly became insufficient to cope with mounting casualties, while the United States' massive industrial and training capabilities made losses far easier to replace. The Battle of Midway, along with the Guadalcanal campaign, is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway

#world war 2 #battle of midway

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dronescapesvideos · 4 months

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F4U-1 Corsairs, Majuro Airstrip, Marshall Islands, 19 Sep 1944

➤➤ MIDWAY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/joqaga0tpyg

➤➤ HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/F4U

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ivovynckier · 14 days

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Listened to John Williams’ military score “Midway”.

You probably think that “Saving Private Ryan” or “War Horse” are Williams’ military soundtracks but they’re not. “Midway” (1976) IS.

Here’s what you didn’t know: the 19-year old Williams joined the Air Force in 1951 until 1955. He was assigned to the Air Force Band, he played the piano and brass instruments… and wrote arrangements.

He revisited that period here. Wrote some marches of his own instead of arranging other composers’ music.