The new movie “Midway” opened in theaters around the country this weekend. It has been roundly endorsed by Navy leadership. Here is the official statement about the movie from the Director of Naval History:

From: Director of Naval History

To: Senior Navy Leadership

Finally, Hollywood decided to make a $100 million dollar movie about real heroes instead of comic book heroes. In this case, the heroes are the pilots, aircrewmen, submariners, sailors, intelligence officers/code-breakers and senior commanders who against great odds and at great sacrifice turned the tide of the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan at the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942. Although the movie is not perfectly historically accurate, the producers went to great lengths to be as accurate as possible given time and resource constraints, and it comes far closer than any other movie about naval combat (and is way more accurate than the 1975 “Midway” movie or the more recent “Pearl Harbor.”)