I haven't watched it yet. Who here has seen it? And what are your thoughts on it?

I have watched it. A very good series I learned a lot, but was disappointed in the lack of detail with the German weapons. Although they did get the Italian weapon right when they introduce Mussolini.


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Pretty good production but many small wrong details.

(06-04-2014 09:54 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Pretty good production but many small wrong details.

such as?

(06-04-2014 09:59 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 09:54 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Pretty good production but many small wrong details.

such as?

The biggest fallacy was that Japan lost four aircraft carriers within six minutes at the Battle of Midway. They lost four, but only three initially, the fourth was hidden by a rain storm and our aircraft did not even see it. It's planes subsequently followed our aircraft back to the Yorktown and hit her three times, and put her out of action by a second attack group. The Yorktown had been damaged at the Battle of the Coral Sea and had an elevator out repaired, repaired deck and a lot of military and civilian workmen on board to make further repairs. It was later sunk by a Japanese submarine. After that we launched aircraft and sank the fourth Japanese carrier, Hiryu.

(06-05-2014 12:22 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 09:59 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 09:54 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Pretty good production but many small wrong details.

such as?

The biggest fallacy was that Japan lost four aircraft carriers within six minutes at the Battle of Midway. They lost four, but only three initially, the fourth was hidden by a rain storm and our aircraft did not even see it. It's planes subsequently followed our aircraft back to the Yorktown and hit her three times, and put her out of action by a second attack group. The Yorktown had been damaged at the Battle of the Coral Sea and had an elevator out repaired, repaired deck and a lot of military and civilian workmen on board to make further repairs. It was later sunk by a Japanese submarine. After that we launched aircraft and sank the fourth Japanese carrier, Hiryu.

ahh

yeah that's a biggie.

the amazing thing about midway is that it wasn't decided by commanders, tactics, or luck. it essentially came down to procedures.

the american carriers had some highly advanced damage control/safety/precaution/fire control procedures in place.

The japanese knew there were three aircraft carriers against them. they got one of our carriers ==> we repaired it in only a few hours to the point where Japanese scouts thought it was a different carrier because it wasn't damaged so they attacked it again and still couldn't sink it. plus you can't forget that the Japanese thought the Yorktown would be inactive at midway because of damage from a previous battle.

our ships got pummeled and we were quickly able to repair them.

The japanese commanders thought they had gotten 2 of our 3 when in reality they had gone 0 for 3.

meanwhile when we were attacking their carriers it was a completely different story. The didn't even take the basic precaution of draining fuel lines to the planes which allowed only a single american bomb to to wreck absolute havoc when it hit the flight deck. One direct hit and their carriers were done for.

I liked it. Some of the historical inaccuracies were noticeable by history buffs. Didn't really detract from the overall series IMO.

Is that a History Channel Documentary?

History Channel documentaries are almost always very slow, repetitious, and covered from start to finish in inaccuracies.

(06-05-2014 12:33 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-05-2014 12:22 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 09:59 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 09:54 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Pretty good production but many small wrong details.

such as?

The biggest fallacy was that Japan lost four aircraft carriers within six minutes at the Battle of Midway. They lost four, but only three initially, the fourth was hidden by a rain storm and our aircraft did not even see it. It's planes subsequently followed our aircraft back to the Yorktown and hit her three times, and put her out of action by a second attack group. The Yorktown had been damaged at the Battle of the Coral Sea and had an elevator out repaired, repaired deck and a lot of military and civilian workmen on board to make further repairs. It was later sunk by a Japanese submarine. After that we launched aircraft and sank the fourth Japanese carrier, Hiryu.

ahh

yeah that's a biggie.

the amazing thing about midway is that it wasn't decided by commanders, tactics, or luck. it essentially came down to procedures.

the american carriers had some highly advanced damage control/safety/precaution/fire control procedures in place.

The japanese knew there were three aircraft carriers against them. they got one of our carriers ==> we repaired it in only a few hours to the point where Japanese scouts thought it was a different carrier because it wasn't damaged so they attacked it again and still couldn't sink it. plus you can't forget that the Japanese thought the Yorktown would be inactive at midway because of damage from a previous battle.

our ships got pummeled and we were quickly able to repair them.

The japanese commanders thought they had gotten 2 of our 3 when in reality they had gone 0 for 3.

meanwhile when we were attacking their carriers it was a completely different story. The didn't even take the basic precaution of draining fuel lines to the planes which allowed only a single american bomb to to wreck absolute havoc when it hit the flight deck. One direct hit and their carriers were done for.

With all that indecision and not know an American carrier fleet was approaching until just before the attack the Japanese had bombs and torpedoes stacked everywhere that they had taken off their aircraft, going from different elements being loaded with bombs to hit Midway, and then torpedoes to attack our fleet.

Yes it was a history channel production. They are now in the entertainment business not the historical accuracy business.


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That's a shame.