ROUNDUP VIDEO: Declassified Footage Battle Of Midway By National Archives And Records Administration

https://youtu.be/h-FXKVzDGeU

GOVERNMENT FILMS: Department of the Navy. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Naval Observatory. (1942 - 09/18/1947).

ROUNDUP TV:  This information was classified in 1950 which is the date shown on the final frame. This is because the very detailed fleet information on the Japanese could only have come from cracking the Japanese naval codes. At that time the US Navy did not want our enemies to know we had cracked these codes.

HISTORICAL FOOTAGE:This is a good overview of the ships available to both sides at the outset of the battle.

This film provides an interesting narrative of the events leading up to the Battle of Midway.

However, it is incomplete, as it appears to be the first part of a multi-part film. It would certainly be nice if the remaining parts--with the actual battle--could be found.

Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.

Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy.

An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position.