Midway Movie $200 million Remake

Original Midway is in my Top 10. I'm ready for 3 D of this epic. Hope this flick gets it right and as someone else commented - leave the Pearl Harbor love story ******** out of it.
 
Thanks for book recommendations PFD and bullzak. I bought Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors to give my Dad for his birthday. I didn't know he had a first cousin, Warren Williams, serving aboard the USS Johnston, mentioned ever so breifly in the book. He was terriby moved by the story, then after reading his cousin's name remembered learning about the sinking and his cousin's being wounded. I had read about half the book before I gave it to him, expecting to borrow it back and finish. Alas he's keeping the book for a trip home to show the relatives still living. So i went to the public library and checked out Neptune's Inferno. I read 80 percent of it over the three-day weekend. Both are terrific books, well written and educational. For example, I had no idea that limited availability of battleships in the Pacific theater had more to do with their fuel consumption than the fact that many had been sunk at Pearl Harbor. Most of the PH sinkings had been repaired, upgraded and were ready for war when cruisers were taking on battleships near Guadalcanal. They stayed on the west coast because of priorities assigned for fuel consumption.
 
Kind of an interesting postscript re: Neptunes Inferno.

My stepdad passed away in December at 91. Navy veteran of WWII. He served on destroyers and destroyer escorts in the Pacific including D-Day at Iwo Jima, peripheral action at Okinawa, and assorted action in the Solomons. Never discussed it much.

After he died we did a memorial and found a bunch of his old stuff from the war that none of us had ever seen before including battles maps of Iwo Jima and the like. Found out then that he had served on the USS Quincy at some point in the war.

The USS Quincy was the first ship sunk at the battle of Guadalcanal with the loss of 370 men.

He was always someone who I thought was fearless and now I know why. You live in daily mortal combat for four years and there isnt much that civilian life can do to you.
 
I never met Warren Williams, though his dad was my favorite great uncle. They were from West Virginia where there was terrific reproductive efficiency through the first six decade of the 1900s. I think I know what you mean about not being afraid though. Warren had some postwar adventure from the stories my father told me. I can imagine after Warren fought in a destroyer in a battle againt cruisers and battleships, a bar fight with anybody this side of Joe Louis wouldn't seem so scary.
 
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