Thanks for the info, I didn’t know that. I’m a retired Army Infantry NCO and Omaha was no fun picnic, I’d be scared to death to go through that! When a Infantry Veteran has a V device on his Bronze Star, that’s something we respect. Sadly, from 2003-08 the Army held the policy to give Bronze Stars to every Senior NCO and Officer that was just within Iraq or Afghanistan for their unit rotation. I declined two Bronze Stars out of protest from my tours which didn’t sit well with my raters/bosses as you can guess. I had men who deserved far more than a Bronze Star and my award recommendations were constantly downgraded. So whenever you see a Bronze Star license plate on a Veterans vehicle and the Veteran is around 45-59 years old, chances are very high that it was just tossed at him as I described. I have a CIB w/ 2nd award decal on my back window, that intimidates them enough, lol. And that “Combat Action Badge” is just another form of a participation trophy for non-Infantry/Combat Arms Soldiers and they know we laugh at them which seems to make things worse, lol. In the Army, each enlisted chooses the exact job he’ll be doing during his term of service and I heard countless young men say; “I’ll take any job except Infantry” then later they try to convince people they’re some sort of Rambo and says; “my job was kind of like Infantry” which is acceptable for a Cavalry Scout Specialist which we respect along with our Medics, they get a pass and all our respect.

I'm not sure what the Medal of Valor is.

A lot of actors from his generation were real heroes. Eddy Albert and Jimmy Stewart to name two. They all had earned the right for a Stunt Double

Well done!

@@NV555_82nd And yet... you'd type 'medal of valor' in your question instead of google. For some reason, this absolutely fascinates me.

That is crazy

WHOA

Wow.

wow good observations

Even crazier... UAP's are further away from us in time than we are from Pearl Harbor. I hope they can find their way back to their own time.

Maybe she hated that ex?

​@@paulg8753 you must've went to MIT.😅😅😅😅😅

dude that guy was in so many things... mash episodes , you name it. he pops up everywhere

@@ghost4-6 "must have GONE" to MIT. (I will forgive you this time. Don't make it a habit). ;)

I was also in the movie. I was a Nimitz crewman at the time.

...and five episodes of M*A*S*H.

Soon was super convincing as a Japanese pilot

@@prokesuk I remember him best from the MASH episode where he played a NoKo soldier that surrendered to BJ & Hawkeye.

@@twnll not to me, when Japanese yell, it’s more guttural. Screaming loudly is an Korean trait. You must love Korean Sushi…

okay going to look him up... Korean name

My father was a Corpsman onboard 76-79. At 11:15 in this video he's the one holding the end of the stretcher with the spots on his helmet (which he still has) and later (not shown in this video) he helps Charles Durning off the helicopter after they pick him up out of the water. My father also mentioned he got to help the special effects guys rig the squibs when the Marines got shot in sickbay. He has some photos of him with the various actors (as well as with the dog, haha). My father's active in the USS Nimitz Association and they have yearly reunions. At one some years back, one of the Admirals knew Kirk Douglas and got him to sign some copies of the dvd for their scholarship auction. He also managed to get the photo of my father and Kirk Douglas signed.

That is truly awesome story! When the movie was released in '86 I was 3 years away from being commissioned in 89. I since retired in 09. I wonder if there is a chance our service time overlapped or you might have retired before I got in. I was in Norfolk until... 96.

@@SonofDaVinci4 I retired in 1989 as a Master Chief Quartermaster. I left the Nimitz in 1980 and went to Miami University to teach Navigation to the ROTC after that I was assigned as the Senior Enlisted in Navigation Department on USS Independence CV-62 from 83-86.. My last assignment was as the USCinCLant Command Master Chief.

@@usnavye9 At the very least we might have walked on the same sidewalks before you retired.

@@SonofDaVinci4 😆😆

Remember that Kirk Douglas was also a WW 2 veteran and he was in the Navy…

The plot of this movie hat faszinated me from the veröffentlicht first Szene I waschen in 1980. I Tried to imagine such happening to H.M.S. VICTORY on the English Channel getting "transsituated" to the jear 1545, 1/2 days before the MARY ROSE sunk ìn sight of Heny VIII. watching it from SOUTHSEA CASTLE. What would had happened to the French siddenly Washington a ship approaching 7times bigger as the largest French or English carrack or galley. Or imagine the ARMADA of 1588 approaching the Devonshire Coast heading for Calais with Howards, Halbinsel, Drakes, Frobishers ... Galleons - and the suddenly getting the model than twice or four times bigger VICTORY fast approaching from the East - opening her 52 or 55 gunports running out her 32, 24,12 and 68-pdr.s. I think Medina Sidonia and most of his Spanish officers and crewmen would had looked Luke the Japanese Zero-pilot who get caught after their yacht-bombing. 😅

How very cool!! I have watched this movie at least once a year for the past decade once I got it on DVD. But have seen it multiple times since the theater release as well.

That’s awesome!

Cool man! Was he just a kid? Early 20s?

And God bless your Dad for his patriotism, sacrifice, and service. 🇺🇸

If your pops is still kickin'...thank him for his service...Great film...

Should be more time travel showes No end to materal Hi from canada😃

Agreed! I keep forgetting the name of this film for some reason. But was always a film I LOVED as a kid (didn't know it cane out a year after I was born though)

One of the best anticlimactic dog fights of any movie. I still watch it every few years for that feel good feeling. Thanks for posting this. :-)

There is the Anime Zipang where a Japanese Agis Class vessel time slips to 12 hours before The Battle of Mudway

@@petewarrell228 agreed! The only other one I remember is an anime (can't remember the name) where a modern Japanese missile frigate goes back in time just in time for the battle of midway and the crew are very conflicted. It was a fun watch.

Was The Pilot Bill Mccluskey related in any way to Wade Mccluskey of WW2 Fame and CAG Of Enterprise.

@@DarthRevan-rp5sn I am not sure about that. His father was Robert. I'd have to ask my dad if Bill had ever mentioned Wade.

@@algg19761994 Thank you for the reply i would like to know

I recall this movie well, my Old Man who had been a DI at Pendleton after serving in Korea had always enjoyed catching any Hollywood movies that featured the Navy..and òur warlords. He was working for Lockhead in Burbank intense days, thank you for your insights sir.

Wow, I didn't know of his service. Thanks for adding it.

Plus he was an excellent actor!

Fun fact: When Durning stormed Omaha Beach, he was approximately 15 yards from Burt Reynolds' father, Big Burt. Go to minute 13:40.... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9B9g7Z5zZnQlGg.html

Great info Roth. Thank you for sharing this!

Heard he was a survivor (and thus an eyewitness for the prosecution) of the Malmedy Massacre, when GIs captured during the Battle of the Bulge were machine-gunned by SS and paratroops. The massacre led to Americans subsequently giving no quarter in turn to the SS or Fallschrimjaeger.

I saw this movie at the same time and same theater. I was finishing up tech school about to head to Okinawa : )

I watched it at Roosevelt Roads, naval station, “El Coquí theater” with my father and brother, I was 10, final approach for the runway was on top of us, we can hear both engines from the movie and real Tomcats landing. It was so hilarious!

My father was stationed at Keesler in 1959 for training and transferred to Davis-Monthan the same year. We lived off the base initially in what appeared to me to be a plantation house, and then moved into base quarters (barracks). I was 5. Other than the mosquitos, I loved it there. The Spanish moss on the trees was incredible to me. I'll never forget it. Then we moved to Tucson. I didn't like it there at first. Tooooo bloody hot! Miserably hot!

OMG that is hilarious. Remember that recruiter that lied to your face......yea same approach. Like dangling a carrot before a mule.

I was an RD on the HBW, DDG-7, escorting Enterprise from California to Vietnam in June of 1971. My ship has a Re-Union coming up in Michigan in May. After making RD3 I made OS2. I was one of the first OS's in the Navy.

Same here

It makes sense.

Good thing temporal mechanics wasn't an issue in those days. Wouldn't it be the policy to defend the country/ship with whatever you have at your disposal?

@@durdle1701 Actually, there is a "policy" all ready in place; it doesn't have to spell out the situation (ie time warp or whatever) The term is "doctrine" though. Doctrine is guidance on how a force carries out national objectives. Doctrine doesn't change with situation but there is room for the commander's judgement. In the movie, the commander finds himself in an unanticipated situation with unknown consequnces for any action he takes. According to doctrine, he would be well within his rights to attack the Japanese fleet to defend the U.S. However, what about the consequences of attacking the Japanese fleet? Would history be re-written? Could the long range outcome be the destruction of the U.S.? After doing his best to reason through the situation, in his judgement, he thought it best to actively defend the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. Suppose in a different situation (or a different movie) we have a different science fiction type of event where a U.S. armed force finds itself. Or better yet, let's say the NIMITZ found itself in the same but with an accelerated rime line with Japanese attack formations in the sky and just a few minutes before they are over land? Should the commander have to weigh the options? OR... if there isn't time to ruminate and only time to react, I would hope his judgement is to take immediate action and defend the U.S.

@@SonofDaVinci4 Thanks for the reply. I'm reminded of the Star Trek episode where Edith Keeler (played by Joan Collins) had to die in the end to keep the timeline intact. This stuff just gives you a headache.🙂

Ytjndallas An Uncle by marriage his cousin was on the U.S.S .Arizona on Dec. 7,1941. He did not survive. Here's where the story takes a strange turn. Years after the war was over his Mom gets his wallet in the mail and it had never been wet because as we all know when paper gets wet it just does not look the same.

@@lilorbielilorbie2496 Wow. That sounds like the makings of another movie, or at least a TV episode of something. Where was that uncle when the attack happened? Was he AWOL and then deserted rather than risk courts martial? Was he AWOL with a townie and died in collateral damage? Did he accidentally leave his wallet in a bar Saturday night, and the bartender kept it as a souvenir until his own son or daughter realized what it was and tracked down the owner's family? Interesting.

My great uncle died on the Scharnhorst, and my Grandfather(his brother), fought in the US Army as a AA gunner, on an M16 Halfrack. My family had issues.

@@cesarebeccaria7641 My Uncle was in the Merchant Marines. I don't know where he was when Pearl Harbor was bombed. I really doubt that his cousin was AWOL, but we will never know the real story because all of the people involved have passed away.

i will be in pearl harbor december 6 7 of 2021 i pay my respects to him god bless them all

Agreed, the visual with the sound does a better job then most of the CGI today

Affirm. I was like Hell No, I ain’t going thru that. Never joined the Navy because of it.

Agree!

Yep, still holds up. Some of the acting/writing however....lol.

I'm with you! I was the same way. Watched and re watched it.

Same here, I was about the same age and if this movie was on, I watched it.

All of you need to check out the Zipang! miniseries/movie?! from like 2004. It's this movie just from the JSDF perspective (via a destroyer) with much tighter ROE, no hope of getting back, so many logistical issues, and goes through the entire Pacific War and wrestles with so many aspects of both sides' culture/history/dignity/etc.

This is one of my favorite movies. Your video of it is excellent! For as many times as I have watched it, you pointed out several things I never noticed. I first saw the movie while stationed at Cannon AFB, and although in the USAF, I enlisted out of a Navy family. Oddly enough, the main critique at the time was the Zero being destroyed by a heat seeking AIM-9. Most didn't think the engine of the Zero put out enough heat, yet the AIM-9 also had an influence fuze that triggered an explosion when it was close enough to "see" an object. Not sure if modern versions have this feature as I last loaded the AIM-9 in 1994. Great movie and your breakdown of it was awesome.

Looks like a stall....

Wow, on my 50th birthday. That's a shame.

Damn. I didn’t even hear about this until I just read it. Rip “SNORT”

They are killing witnesses.

The Air Force deployed my daughter Courtney Schantz to begin flight training January 25 on my birthday after she graduated with a 4.0 GPA in Aeronautical Engineering from New Mexico State University after she went to Mayfield High School in Las Cruces New Mexico and just got married on July 4, 2021 and her grandparents raised her and Morning Star Las Cruces United Methodist Church delivered a gunmetal blue casket lined in blue embroidered with white seagulls and deleted my graduate dissertation research Master's in Microbiology (Molecular Biology) records and posted a military assault on my hacked Facebook profile and declared me clinically insane and tortured me.

My dad took me to see this when I was nine years old.. ..and we both had the DVD! I wish my dad was still here too God bless you

My dad was in the 82nd Airborne when I was born. I was saddened that he didn't live to see how prosperous South Korea is today.

I wonder what your dad thought about the movie

My Dad was on a carrier during WWII and he enjoyed this movie, too. I wish he was still here to watch it, too.

when u watch it. he is there with you in spirit.

Thank you Michael, to you and your family for your commitment to our Nation… Freedom is not free… A price must be paid… You and your family paid it… My Father and his two brothers served in World War II… One of them a forward gunner on a Destroyer… USS Braine was killed at Okinawa… given the history of that War, I would hardly call Jamie’s comment a ‘racist one’ for simply using the term Japs 🇯🇵 that said, today Japan is our Allie…

Hi Michael, I joined the Australian army at the age of 17 and drove M113 APC's just after the end of Vietnam. All fun time, no real action. However, I wanted to tell you a story I heard. A column of Iraqi troops were marching down a road during Desert Storm. From behind a hill they heard someone call out "One Australian soldier is better than ten Iraqi soldiers" The commander was a little miffed by this insult, so he picked out a squad and sent them over the hill to take care of the insulant dog. After a brief firefight, the Iraqi's heard the call, "One Australian soldier is better that a platoon of Iraqi's". This incensed the commander even more so he sent his top platoon over the hill. Yet again a firefight could be heard, but no Iraqi soldiers returned. Finally, the call came from behind the hill, "One Australian soldier is better than a company of Iraqi's. The commander was raging by this point and sent all the remaining men from the company over the hill. A massive firefight begun, but a lone Iraqi soldier shortly came back around and waving frantically at the commander, yelling "Stop, stop, Don't send any more troops. It's a trap. There are two of them!"

I wonder about his feelings having survived that tragic attack and the horrors that followed. I'm glad he enjoyed the movie.

SALUTE!!!!

@@colorin81colorado He was a Marine to the end. After his ship was sunk he transferred into Marine Aviation. Went to Korea with a fighter wing. Retired as a First Sergeant and an electronics expert. Was hired by the Airforce on the F-111 program and went to Viet Nam with them. He finished up with the Airforce's first electric fly-bye-wire jet the F-16.

I think I watched it six times the first month it came out on HBO! LOL

Still think this is better then either Top Gun film.

@@mughug9616 Absolutely

@@MW-bi1pi Are you saying you find it weird to be old?

saw it with my family at the movies i was 20 then

My dad and your dad knew each other. Engineer on the E2, EA6B and Tomcat D.

RubTheRock64, that is very cool that your uncle was a real yellow jacket in this movie. I was in the movie, Stripes. The Army band and the end of the movie was, in actuality, members of the 1st Marine Division Band. Our sequence was filmed in Jan. 1981, in Van Nuys, CA. I played trombone in the front. It was a lot of fun and got to meet several of the stars.

Hopefully your Uncle is still with us, you can impress him by calling him a "Yellow Shirt". We never used the term "Jacket" on the flight deck. You were either a Red shirt, Purple shirt etc..

@@odyshopody9387 I take it you were a red “shirt”

@@slugmaster64 Purple, aviation fuels!

Also referred to as "grapes". The military loves nicknames for everything. During Initial Sea Trials for the Super Hornet, one of the squadron LSO's aboard asked one of the test pilots how he liked flying the "Super Freak". Kinda sad that one didn't stick.

No zeros were in the movie LOL

@@RobertMememe that tends to prevent such damage XD

By the terms of surrender, General MacArthur ordered ALL Japanese Zeroes remaining after the war to be destroyed! So, movies like this one and "Tora! Tora! Tora!" had to use modified T-6 Texans and SBD Dauntlesses to stand in for Zeroes.

@@lelandframe1029 That was horribly shortsighted of MacArthur. We could have a few Zeros at Warbird Flyins from time to time but instead due to his egotistical narcissistic ass...

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I thought he was the skipper in Gillian's Island & casey jones ....

He was also starred in "NCIS" Call of Silence (TV Episode 2004) - Charles Durning as Ernie Yost

He was also a medal of honor recipient. The military (and I know this for a fact because I am a military widow and also worked for a time at Paramount movie studio) The military has a very very strict rule that if the medal of honor is to be used as a prop in a movie or tv episode, it absolutely must be the personal possession of the person displaying it. When Durning appeared in an episode of NCIS he reached inside his shirt and pulled out a medal of honor.

@@glenphillips9068 No, that was Alan Hale jr.

@@kp1278 Absolutely not! It was Durning!....check the credits of the show.

There may have been some creative editing in Top Gun, but there wasnt any CGI in that movie either.

@@guitaristxcore I wasn't indicating that "Top Gun" had CGI, just that "The Final Countdown" does not.

@@guitaristxcore well Top Gun use model kit for many scenes. And do you believe the F-14 flying upside down with the Mig? That’s special effects, not real as Final Countdown flight scenes are. The pilot in Final Countdown almost got killed shooting the scenes

The best part of Final Countdown... no Tom Cruise!

Even though the premise of TFC is science fiction, everything else within that bubble seems more credible than the recruitment vehicle that is Top Gun. I mean, I loved Top Gun as a kid, but now in my 40's its cheesy as hell.

I saw this movie in Norfolk when it first came out (summer 1980). The theater was packed. The crowd absolutely went nuts when the F-14s shot the Zeros. We didn't know why the audience all lost it like they did. We later found out the carrier in the movie was actually homeported there and nearly everyone in the theater was from the crew (or related to someone who was). I'm sure everyone on the ship saw this movie at least 10 times!

I was on the ship when it changed home ports from Norfolk to Bremerton in 87. I remembered that initiation

I was on the America, and had nuke friends on the Nimitz. They were playing a game called Squad Leader in the ships library when the battle stations goes off.

Served on the Nimitz from 1980-83 in Cryptography. Greetings to those that served with me. I was onboard during the horrific crash on the flight deck and guns of August when in 81 we shot down two Lybian SU-22s after they fired on our F14.

Too bad the actual Zero was not used, I think the Planes of Fame A6M5 was airworthy when this movie went into production. The combat speed of the one's that are currently airworthy is between 170 to 250 knots. Quite a bit closer to the F-14A's optimum maneuvering speed of 350 knots

That was a dogfight? Teacup poodle vs. Tiger

Did you know they made I think it was a full size drone for the Sidewinder shot? Between a real missile shoot and impact and actually firing the gun it's that real feeling that will never dethrone that scene. I think it's also the only film to get the Vulcan sound right too, for obvious reasons. Anyone want to vote this movie as the most realistic, unrealistic movie in history?

If the "Zero" was hit by a solid burst of M-61 20 mm cannon fire - wouldn't it do more than simply trail a thin stream of smoke ?

@@agwhitaker You may well be right, but I am guessing, based on the Zero airframe and the damage that .50 ball would do, that the velocity and firing rate of the gatling cannon would have let the first round or two breach and open such a gap that remaining rounds would only sideswipe or brush aside damaged metal, and maybe detonate beyond, or have the blast "vent into the vacuum", the ballistic inverse of a shaped charge. That is only a guess, based on my limited knowledge. That smoky crash seems more surprisingly realistic, coming from a Hollywood that lets aircraft explode from single 9mm hits.

That make's two of us who's fathers are in the VA-35 ready room shot !

Awesome dude! Thank your dad for us all!

word!

Yes. They hit a weather balloon filled with swamp gas and set off some St. Elmo's fire inside the Aurora.

... wormholes, or aliens ... or some super-rich @$$hat screwing around in a flying armoured suit he built himself. :)

Best explanation.

@UCoQvBxIysyRXEJs4FKSiYXA "Training accident, isn't that the usual BS?" "It's not that simple." *cuts to scene of news being informed of a training accident*

Fun fact, indeed! Thanks, Mike!

Went to NWTGP A school N. Island in 77 and had pilot type friends. He was a legend then.

Also Mike..our Master Chief's name back then was Cheslock..a UDT legend.😉

@@davechartier6898 The actor Aldo Ray who played Master Sergeant Muldoon in The Green Berets was a UDT in ww2 too, as was Hedda Hoppers son who played the Detective in Perry Mason

I think Final Countdown is one of the best time travel movies, establishing a perfect going back in time to set up the events of the present loop. Like Terminator 1. I saw it in the theaters too and at the time felt a little cheated of my big shootout, but in hindsight its perfect as it is. And all the glorious aircraft and carrier p0rn didn't hurt either.

The last scene was TwilightZone great but the lead up to it, the 5 minutes or so was squeezed too much as well as somewhat disappointing. I left the theater disappointed.

I remember that scene very well and my thoughts as I watched it the first time. I told my friends who were there with me his thoughts: "WTF did we get ourselves into??"

cool...

I can confirm this, I was there!

Is Emory Brown still living?

@@matrox Yes indeed! I spoke with him via FaceTime during the VF-84 reunion last month (August '21)

I heard that they had originally had the camera directly behind the F-14 and it was blown over by the exhaust.

I was in VA-105 on Forrestal1986 Med Cruise

@@brady3474 Damn! I operated with Forrestal in the Med in 1960! When was she decommissioned?

@@jimsteele9975 1955

My bro and I flew Texans in FL in mock dogfights

Like Ward mentions, these "Zeros" are actually T-6 trainers, same as in Tora Tora Tora. Imagine how cool this scene would be today, now that several real Zeros are flying!

Absolutely. I remember seeing it on broadcast when i was maybe 10 (way back when broadcast movies of the week were a thing lol) I still get goosebumps too, and bought it on dvd the first time i ran across it.👍

I was bummed at the ending, though, as more than one of my friends had falsely told me that the Nimitz’s crew does end up stopping the Japanese attack.

@@christianorr1059 I think it would’ve made for a much more interesting story if they had had an affect not necessarily stopped it but had a noticeable effect on the attack

I would think that an F-14 buzzing a Zero would have caused the pilots to loose control of their aircraft due to wake turbulence. Never mind that the appearance of such an airplane as the Tomcat would have likely scared the Japanese pilots senseless! More stretching the bounds of credibility.

I liked Iron eagle more than top gun

@@megaben99 I loved Iron Eagle as a kid but later when I joined the Air Force and was assigned to F-16s…….uh, well let’s just say I understand why the USAF declined to cooperate with the making of that movie.

Same here. Have watched it don't know how many times to this day.

Based 👍

Top Gun is Pop Corn for Military Aviation, Final Countdown is a more serious realistic film in my opinion but I like them both the same for different reasons.

Thanks for your dedication and service, Steve!

LCDR AFTER 20 YEARS MEANS YOU are stuck and will never make CMDR. I wonder WHY? (I actually already know the reason but out of respect I will keep it to myself)

Did you’re pilots come across any flying tic tacs back then?

@@marksauck3399 Those flying Tic tacs may just be carrier aviators of the USN from the year 2085!

@@anonimous2451 He said he enlisted. We don't know when he went through OCS, which would have moved him from the enlisted track to the officer track. But yeah, I would expect him to retire with 20.

I was a member of the Spacebattles forum a decade ago and this movie was very popular as a what if discussion. I guess it is a movie that appeals to both scifi nerds and history what if buffs alike. Of which that forum had no shortage of neither at the time.

Can't be to picky it a movie. Noisy. Yea.

we had a theater full of Marines when it was on, same response. We’re about 5-miles from the Main Gate of MCB Camp Pendleton.

I worked as a civilian firefighter at Lakehurst for 27 years

@@djroselli6310 going to school in hanger 1(twice) was one of the coolest parts of my enlistment. Not to mention learning about the hindenburg right there where it happended.

I saw the movie the first week it came out; extremely enjoyable. However can anyone please clarify if Kirk Douglas really said "splash the Zekes". Google search has Kirk Douglas saying splash the zeros.

Never experienced anything at that level… but maybe this was close. I was at a conference in Omaha, Nebraska, when Team America: World Police was released. When one of the characters (marionettes) was introduced as a former QB for the Cornhuskers, the whole place went insane.

As a retired Army Bandsman, I loved it...

And NO CGI 👍

I have the 4k blu ray version on its way to me, with a cd of the soundtrack included. Can't wait.

@@whos-the-stiff you will love it. I do not know whether your version contains interviews with some of the VF-84 crews, one being Emory Brown, but if it does, well worth the price of admission.

I was whistling the theme while he was showing those clips.

Hope uncle told you lots of stories. My dad was on a destroyer in the Pacific. His ship was hit by a kamikaze at Leyte. My uncle had two ships sunk out from under him in the Pacific. My dad was very open about his experiences which helped him I would bet.

If you do a little searching you can find the name of the Japanese naval officer who shot the photo.

I think too, there is just the beginning of a great water splash on the port side of the BB.

Montemayor's youtube channel has a great analysis of the Pearl Harbor raid that uses this photo and names the Japanese aviator who shot it.

I guess the filmaker did not have Photoshop at the time of filming... I better time travel with my laptop and fix that photo for them!

@@colorin81colorado ~Ha!

The line we had all been waiting for until this point!

Was that a line from the movie...??

@@dunruden9720 If memory serves, it is the order they receive for "engage the hostile forces". until that point, they had only harassed them, to preserve the timeline.

@@dunruden9720 Yes. It was a real feel good moment. Or at least I thought so. :-)

“Toy with them...draw them off”

The Oki's Huey Det had an office just off the flightline at North Island, circa '84-'86. I got a ride in it once. I was at Marine Barracks NASNI and a family friend (Marine) was one one of the Oki-3 pilots at that time.

I entered in 1974, same thing. We are among the first to get the "new" uniforms, and I thought, what the hell? I was a WestPac type too. USS Enterprise Air Wing.

Fellow Brokinawa sailor. WestPac 1980 and 1981. A very small part of Operation Eagle Claw

Thank you, for your service!!!

Bravo Sierra, Flashback to TYT 2 and the mini 3 mile island that WE sat at Pier 12 for almost 3 months when virtually all the interior shots were done and the one bridge storm scene on a very cloudy day

That’s awesome. The Med.

Actually the film was shot in Key West, Pier 12 in Norfolk and while out steaming around in the Vacapes

Agree Brett!....great movie and I still get chills watching it!!

The wave still rules wavy tv 10

Absolutely, Top Gun was a kid movie. You had to be that naive to believe all the nonsense. like the "canopy to canopy" scene !!! =)

@@axiomist4488 Even more unrealistic than any of the flying scenes: The inquiry into the F14 crash that killed Goose was completed within a day or two and Maverick was cleared to rejoin his class in time to graduate

@@axiomist4488 I aways though that way a split screen show the to planes on screen at the same time, like telephone seen a call is made or answered, and the over side of the call comes in as part of the screen, goes out when they hang up the call?

@@axiomist4488 yeah!.......my first reaction to that scene was "WTF.!.....the tails would be in the way and causing a mid-air!"

@@MrJeffcoley1 Great points!

You can also see shock waves in the water, radiating out from the side of the battleship, from a torpedo strike.

Politicians, were and still are self centered, narcissistic, mostly bi-polar asswipes! No change from the past!

The more things change...

Yes, Chapman is an entitled jerk. But from his perspective, everything he's seen since the first F-14 flyover seems - pretty reasonably! - like a massive conspiracy directed specifically at shutting down FDR's political rivals. The officers and men aboard _Nimitz_ have repeatedly refused to give straight answers to direct questions, even though legally they should be obligated to do so. And finally they cap it all off by trying to dump him on some uninhabited island under the pretense of delivering him to Pearl Harbor as promised.

@@Philistine47 They wanted to dump the Senator off at a different Island but Gilligan, the Skipper , and the rest all said NO. Find someplace else.

He played it so well too.

The Nimitz carrier group is a small air force with a purpose to protect and defend. Had she engaged the Japanese and stayed in 1941, it is feasible that she could have sailed through to the Japanese islands, then Italy, North Africa and finished off in the European theater of operations. With all the history books on board, it would be rather simple to eliminate the axis powers and not make the same mistakes that led to Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War and all the other craziness. Plus, the Nimitz would bring with her 40 years of scientific advancement overnight. I think that would make a great sequel to the movie.

If they follow thru with the mission and stop Pearl harbor attack that would had changed the history so much they meant now even had built the Nimitz

@@darthmaul7277 ~ "Nimitz" who?

I also love the way Capt Yelland, handles the situation. Instead, of being a know all, he does'nt try to solve the problem all at once, but as problems arrive and uses ' The Book' to solve those problems and shows fictional Capt Yelland as a total proffessional military officer Sure the Dogflights are fantastic but if I was asked the name favorate part it is when James Francicus, reads out the names of The Japanese Carriers, that are then translated and the firefight happen. James Francicus subsequent scene with Katherine Ross, as She gets dressed. It, is this bit of acting that has always left me wondering what would She of been like portraying Dr Helena Russell in Space 1999, as She was in the running before The Landau's were cast! But also once more the fictional proffessional of Capt. Yelland - Kirk Douglas, asks Michael Sheen is he alright after witnessing a Japanese Naval Officer blown away by a M16. and seeing his blood and guts speewed across the deck. My, background is Nursing in the NHS, in the UK and I can think of certain situations where you just act, do what the job requires of you there and then and it is only afterwards you think on what just happened, did you do your best, are you alright by what you just witness and Capt Yelland takes the time to ask 'Are you alright'

then you would like a three book series of alternate history where a future battlegroup including stealth ships, Abrams and future submarine actually does go back to WWII era, a really good read... by John Birmingham, called Weapons of Choice , Designated Targets and Final Impact, if you loved this movie, you will love this series, I think it would be awesome if they ever made them a movie or movies !!

35 years ago I was like 😝 Today I'm like 😫 When I'm forced to listen to that one hit wonder.

....and now I can't get that song out of my head!

Of course, the movie and the song are completely unrelated.

@@Ichijoe2112 They may have been that, but they had some GREAT songs. Oddly, the bulk of the movie Hot Rod uses the album as a soundtrack. 👍🏾❤

@@Ichijoe2112 they weren’t a one hit wonder. They were a 2 hit wonder

Yes, you’re pretty much correct on that one. Don’t remember exactly how it came to be or what other noises were combined for that scene but part of it was her screaming & the way they choreographed everything together was excellent for being in 1979.