As the National WWII museum puts it, “The attack location and time were confirmed when the American base at Midway sent out a false message that it was short of fresh water. Navy cryptanalysts had learned the Japanese were planning a big attack in the Pacific at a place codenamed AF, but were trying to figure out where, exactly. “It was an unstoppable parade of Japanese victories,” says Rob Citino, Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum, who was not involved in the film. (The 2019 movie was shot at Hawaii’s Hickam Air Force Base and in Montreal.)Īfter Pearl Harbor, the Japanese went about carving out a huge empire in the Pacific in Indochina, Burma, the Philippines and various island possessions. annexed Midway in 1867, and the Navy took it over in 1903, and in 1940, ramped up the construction of an air and submarine base there. The islands are part of the Hawaiian archipelago, located northwest of Honolulu, but not part of the state of Hawaii. territory about halfway between Asia and North America. The Midway Islands are an unincorporated U.S.
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