"On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway kicked off between the U.S. and Japan. When it was all over on June 7, it was hailed as a decisive American victory — and much of it was captured on film.
That's all because the Navy sent director John Ford to Midway atoll just days before it was attacked by the Japanese. Ford, already famous in Hollywood for such films as "Stage Coach" and "The Grapes of Wrath," was commissioned a Navy commander with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and thought he was just going to document a quaint island in the South Pacific.
"The next morning – that night we got back and evidently something was about to pop, great preparations were made," Ford told Navy historians after the battle. "I was called into Captain Semard's office, they were making up plans, and he said ‘Well, now Ford, you are pretty senior here, and how about you getting up top of the power house, the power station, where the phones are?' He said, ‘Do you mind?" I said ‘No, it's a good place to take pictures.'…"
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