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| Tango01 | 02 Jan 2020 3:51 p.m. PST |
"Roland Emmerich's Midway is a historical war movie that has audiences shaking their heads, with plenty of things that just seem too insane to be true. But sometimes reality really is stranger than fiction. Here are the things in Midway you won't believe were true. Most of Midway's characters are based on real people, including Nick Jonas's Bruno Gaido. Remember that unlikely scene where the USS Enterprise is raided by Japanese bombers, only to have them all miss… except for one, badly damaged, about to crash into the ship? Gaido hops into a nearby dive bomber and starts shooting, only to send the bomber careening away at the last minute, at the same time the plane he's in takes a direct hit. Surely Hollywood drama, right? It's absolutely true. Gaido really did take a running leap into a parked plane, then opened fire on a Japanese bomber intent on crashing into the Enterprise, just like the movie depicts. The Japanese bomber really did clip Gaido's plane, slicing off the tail and sending it skidding across the deck…" YouTube link Amicalement
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