This movie is special to me and my brother: it's the story of my father's adventures at the Battle of Midway. He (Thomas Ramsay; they used his real name) led his squadron (VB-6) from USS Enterprise in the attack that so severely damaged HIJMS Kaga that she was scuttled by the Japanese the next day. (He missed with his bomb, a fact that my mother said vexed him for the rest of his short life.) He was then shot down and spent 8 days in the open water with his gunner until being rescued by a PBY piloted by a school classmate from his home town. Mike Phillips has wanted to make a film about this ever since he heard the story some 15 years ago and finally got the money to put it on screen. It is too bad that he never got the major studio backing that the project needed to make it work as well as it should. Still, it will be a tribute to my dad and I'll get a copy or, I hope, see it on screen asap. Now, if someone would be interested in the rest of the story, there are those absolutely hair-raising adventures my father had at Guadalcanal ...
Review of Dauntless: The Battle of Midway
