The Battle of Midway (1942)

About

US Navy film. On the Japanese aerial attack on Midway Island and U.S. ships in the area. Shows activities before, during, and after the attack. Reel 1, Marines parade on the island and bombers prepare for a flight. Japanese planes attack the island, setting fire to a hangar, a ship, and other targets. Reel 2, carrier planes take off and Japanese planes attack ships. Several planes are downed. Shows damage on the island and dead and wounded men on ships and shore.

Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov

National Archives Identifier: 12870 Local Identifier: 80-MN-1433

https://research.archives.gov/description/12870

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Wikimedia Commons, in Wikimedia Commons

Licence or status

Public domain, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.

Rights statement

Public domain

Credit

US Navy. Directed by John Ford.

Subtitles

English

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed