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The TV version also added Coral Sea battle scenes to help the plot build up to the decisive engagement at Midway. [13] Mitchell Ryan played Rear Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch aboard the USS Lexington and Jim Ishida played Takeo Koda, a Japanese pilot and old friend of Nagumo.
United Air Lines Flight 553 was a scheduled domestic flight from Washington National Airport to Omaha, Nebraska, via Chicago Midway International Airport.On December 8, 1972, the Boeing 737-222 serving the flight, City of Lincoln registration N9031U, [2] [1]: 2 crashed while approaching Midway Airport.
The accident occurred exactly 33 years after United Air Lines Flight 553, also a Boeing 737, crashed while approaching Midway Airport, killing 45. [ 17 ] This was the first Southwest Airlines accident in the 35-year history of the company to result in a fatality.
Vincent Riotta played Jimmy Doolittle in Bille August's 2017 film The Chinese Widow aka The Hidden Soldier. Aaron Eckhart played Doolittle in Roland Emmerich 's 2019 film Midway . Bob Clampett 's 1946 cartoon Baby Bottleneck briefly portrays a dog named "Jimmy Do-quite-a-little", who invents a failed rocket ship.
Midway is a 2019 war film directed by Roland Emmerich, produced with Harald Kloser, and written by Wes Tooke. The film covers the first six months in the Pacific Theater of World War II , from the Attack on Pearl Harbor to the titular Battle of Midway .
Rear Admiral Clarence Wade McClusky, Jr., (June 1, 1902 – June 27, 1976) was a United States Navy aviator during World War II and the early Cold War period. He is credited with having played a major part in the Battle of Midway.
The opening scene of the film Midway (1976) uses footage from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to launch the film's plot with the Doolittle Raid. In the Seinfeld season 3 episode "The Keys", Kramer mentions to Jerry that he is watching the film. The title of "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo", an episode of The Simpsons, is a reference to Thirty Seconds Over ...
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 — Chicago Midway International Airport overrun accident on December 8, 2005. TAM Airlines Flight 3054 — A similar runway overrun crash that occurred 7 years later where an Airbus A320 landed on a wet runway and hit a gas station, killing all 187 onboard and 12 on the ground.