File:Midway (film) screenshot.jpg

Screenshot from the film Midway. For this scene the "Midway" editors used stock footage from the Japanese movie "太平洋风暴 Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi" from 1960 (US title: "Storm Over the Pacific").

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