My grandfather's father, 1915 to 1942, was a torpedo pilot for the aircraft carrier Kaga, but was killed by a dive bomber. It's a very disappointing history for our family. Now I want to eradicate the Chinese carrier, not the US Navy.

My Dad was at Midway with the 6th Defense Battalion Stationed at MIDWAY. John Ford and his Motion Picture Crew took pictures of the Attack, and Dad was in the Film. How about that. Dad was a Sgt. at the time. He maned a 30 Cal. Machine Gun. Dad passed away 2007. He Retired at the Rank of Sgt\Maj. He Served from 1939 - 1974. He was a 5 War Marine. Dad started the Paper Work on me in 1969. I am a 5th Generation Marine. He is Truly Missed, enough said. Semper Fidelis, The Gunny Gy\Sgt. K.R. Dalton USMC Med. Ret.

One of the things that people forget is that the Midway soundtrack had a direct influence on the greatest movie soundtrack of all-time, Star Wars Episode IV. If you listen to both of them, you hear the similarities, and this makes sense because John Williams did them at about the same time.

Always loved those 70s John Williams scores. Something about them that i like. Like he was really finding his style and sound.

This movie showed great honor by portraying the heroic efforts of Torpedo 8. Well done.

"I want that 4th carrier!"

Who cares, Fonda, Heston, etc....it is a great movie with a fantastic score...enjoy the music, movie and the world we live in, in the now

I saw this in the theatres when I was seven...I remember it was advertised as being in "SENSURROUND" :)

I have loved this movie since high school in the 80's when I first saw it. I own the sound track now of Cd which I also really enjoy and listen to it while I work on my Navy ship models.

I remember watching this movie on a Friday, or Saturday night, at my local cinema during the mid 1970s. It was supposed to be in surround sound but the picture theatre had an outdated speaker system. But I enjoyed the movie. Those were the good old days for me. Double features too. You can tell this is a John Williams score.

I've always loved this soundtrack. Churchill (who's accolodes appear at the end of the movie) always knew we could fight. He had read every battle of our civil war from the first shot to the last but after Midway the British people knew it too and those enslaved in Europe and the Pacific knew they now had a big, powerful ally, relentless and determined to win. I mean no disrespect to the courage of the British at El Alamain or the Russians at Stalingrad but it was at Midway that the AMERICANS were outnumbered, outgunned and still won at a time (June, 1942) when allied victories still weren't all that common with the obvious exceptions of the Battle of Britain and the Soviet counteroffensive one day before Pearl Harbor. When we we're bombed Churchill himself admitted that for the first time in years he slept soundly because he now knew the war was won. Even Yammamato lamented that he had awakened a sleeping giant. 6 months later his words became prophesy.

I have VHS & DVD versions of this film both with different end themes . Battle of Briton film also has two different end themes.the opening of the film is awesome (borrowing from Thirty seconds over Tokyo ) blended with that powerful opening music & all star cast its a gr8 film!

this movie was loved in Japan for being the first movie not to show them as savages but men who tried to do a job. as sailors and airmen.

Movie was epic actors were epic story was epicly epic the music was epic. I loved this movie piece played i can see the film in my head!

At around the 2:00 mark I still get a jolt as Doolittles B-24's approach Tokyo and the bomb bay door opens.

BULLEYE! BULLEYE! YAAAAAAAA HO!

Without John Williams there no Star Wars, Jaws, close encounters. I am sir I missed many. I never knew he scored this movie. I almost forgot Superman. I wake up to the planet krypton everyday.

Just bought the soundtrack thanks to this video. Funny how I miss being "haze gray & underway" now that I'm no longer in the USN.

Perfect music to build a few 1/72 F4F-4s to

great csore by John Williams, thanks

The opening titles to this movie is the ONLY music that could fit the bravery of the Doolittle raid.

I remember watching this movie as a kid, around 8 or 9 years old, and loved it. Years later when I saw people were saying it wasn't a good movie, I realized that I had just automatically filtered out all the romance and father/son stuff and was just paying to the military stuff, which I think it actually did a very good job presenting as far as a movie goes.

At 11:33 this is the version of Midway March that I've been looking for

Didn't know this JW score yet! Thnx for posting!!

Absolutely perfect, fantastic, marvelous.

Out of the five faces above only one is still alive....

Thanks Frederik! Ordered and already on the way. :)

I spent hours trying to find the original soundtrack. Big thanks!

john williams is great when it comes to scores.

Beautiful score!!! If you listen closely, you can hear a little bit of star wars a new hope in there! This was back in the day when music was made with feeling! Now every movie seems to have a rap song attached to it! Smfh

Erstklassige Komposition und erstklassige Leistung!

Best part is at 10.36. Stand up and salute to USN

I love it.

I'm sure critics on both sides will have their own opinions. This version of the movie wasn't as historically accurate as the new 2019 version, but the score of this version was amazing. It's John Williams. Any John Williams score is amazing, even if the movie is so-so.

Wow, thanks Fredrick if you're still there. Came here from "The Cowboys". Many thanks for your efforts. All the folks that don't like copy-catting: yes, yes, but they all do. The Brits: Holst, Vaughn Williams (5th Symph), William Walton, Eric Korngold; Americans: Howard Hanson, Max Steiner, Elmer (& Leonard) Bernstein, etc. I was mad at 1st too. In the end, one needs to be thankful music like this exists. I know the big theme @ 8:00 min is the Throne Room from Star Wars and like it anyway. The military march @ 12:00 could be The Bridge at Remaggen, @ ~4:00 the drop to a lower key and broaden theme w/thick harmony & counterpoint-William Walton, Henry V w/ Laurence Olivier, 1944. Doesn't matter. I'm thankful John Williams, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, etc have moved our hearts. Thanks for the posting Fredrick.

hey there! yes, the score include "the men of the yourktown march" (here a picture of the back cover, taken from the website of the label which presented this cd, varese sarabande: varesesarabande. com/media/04/a20791a132dfd5f1a33bd5_l.jpg "TMFTYM"was also composed by maestro williams. i saw a few days ago a version of the film where the film closed with the typical "end credits" theme. the "TMFTYM" was completely not in the film. best wishes! :-)

At around the 200 mark I still get a jolt as Doolittles B-24's approach Tokyo and the bomb bay door opens.

Saw Midway, Earthquake and Battlestr in Sensurround. Only saw rollercoaster on tv. I believe these were the only 4. Battlestar was amazing in sensurround.

Great movie

The Longer Version, Where they Include the Battle of the Coral Sea is the Best ! A Quick but Touching Scene,Is Where the Naval. Communication People On Corregidor, Issue a " WE ARE SIGNING OFF" Message in the Clear, Before They Surrender, and the US Forces Receive It !

Un peliculón john Williams un maestro

All braves!!! Waldron and his bunch... Parks, Massey... all of them

the men of the midway march is the best part of this score, awesome ..

One would have to feel sorry for an admiral who would have to go home and apologise to an emperor for losing 4 aircraft carriers in 1 day.

"Matt Gard is coming in; his plane is all shot."

i am confused....saw the movie in 1976....end title was a recapitulation as a march of the original theme...this music seems different...did maestro williams change it afterwards...i liked the original ending music

The film was very good, the score great, but it was also a "gimmick" picture. Here's why: Universal had come up with something called "Sensurround" which was a low-frequency installation in theaters that would cause rumbling and a physical pressure wave on the audience--it was first used with the movie "Earthquake" to simulate the FEEL of a quake when it happened in the movie. I remember going to see it firstrun at the Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and they had strung big cargo nets across the ornate ceiling ostensibly to keep pieces of it from falling down on the audience due to the Sensurround effects (probably more hype and psychological than actual!) But THEN what do you do with this expensive gimmick? Well, the next movie they tried it with was "Midway" and when, for example, the planes warmed up their engines on the carrier decks you "felt" the vibrations--ditto the bombs bursting. Next, they used it for the rumbles and explosions in "Rollercoaster!" Remember, this was before THX sound. Sensurround was developed by Cerwin-Vega, a speaker company, with Universal. It basically disappeared after Rollercoaster except for some re-edited theatrical releases of Battlestar Galactica TV episodes and use in themepark attractions at Universal Studios. SOmetimes patrons in adjoining theaters as megaplexes grew complained of the effect coming through the walls!

Great score,the opening sounds very Goldsmith with the piano but that us hardly a critique.

"These Americans sacrifice themselves like Samuri" Torpedo 8

1) US Ships under attack (Music by John Williams) 2) US Navy falls into the water (Music by John Williams) 3) Sharks arrive (Music by John Williams...)

However there is one piece missing. The score wehre the first Betty was shot down, and same used when Akagi, Kaga, Soryu were blasted to bits!

The battle that would make or break us. By God, America really turned it all around in just this battle. Japan was on the ropes after this.

Nadie en toda la segunda guerra mundial demostró mayor valor y determinación que los soldados japoneses.

hey there! this soundtrack came out at the end of 2011 by the same label of the rerecording, varése sarabande. buy it here (varesesarabande com): /servlet/the-956/Midway/Detail all the best and good luck! Fred

Presented in SENSOROUND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally! If I may ask, how did you get this? I have the re-mastered 'Midway' soundtrack from 1998 by the Royal Scottish Orchestra but have always wanted the true original soundtrack.

I seen the movie Midway on Tuesday, July 12,1976 at the Harbor Drive In in National City, CA. I was in the Navy stationed aboard the USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 in San Diego. Great movie, great acting, great cast. Very unfortunately it was way too far underrated while that Patton movie and that POS Catch 22 were way too far overrated for movies on Worlds War II that were made in the 1970’s.

I keep hearing so many echos from the Jaws soundtrack in here, same creator, so maybe thats not too surprising.

Everyone keeps going on about this score, but I'd like to know does the score include "Men of The Yorktown March"? When I saw this movie on late-night TV back in the 1980's, that was the music track that the movie closed with. I've always associated the 'Men of The Yorktown march' with the movie.

His forgotten epic.

America's revenge for Pearl Harbour. "Bombs on the Flight deck how did we get so lucky yeeeeh!!!!"

when the movie came to dvd they cut out the battle of the corral sea.

After reading about the battle, you realize how close we came to defeat. Tactics and procedures then were just horrible.

1970s? Miles Zentner on Piccolo?

I love these suites of yours Fred, how do you do it??😁😁

4.53.....strawberry n.5

2:27 Revenge of the sith :D !!!

The offical soundtrack sounds slower

It sounds like a Victorious Starwars march........

1:38

Parts of this became Superman, then later The Patriot. @11:08, is this an old song, or a complete rip-off of Patton? This part later became 1941.

Roll over Beethoven

Shame it was such a mediocre film except for Fonda who is brilliant as Nimitz!

This is played entirely too fast. It sucks.