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    Just saw Midway, and there was a character so improbably heroic I had to look him up, kind of assuming he had to be an exaggeration. No such - Bruno Gaido was an honest-to-God Hero in every sense of the word, and was quite real. Except Hollywood seems to think all Italians have NYC accents! In any event, good to see Bruno Gaido get his due, because he sure enough earned it, and paid the highest price in the end.

    Battle of Midway hero played by Nick Jonas in new film was Milwaukee man

    Yes, the sailor portrayed by heartthrob Nick Jonas in the new Hollywood film "Midway" really existed.

    And yes, Bruno Gaido was a hero, almost single-handedly saving his ship by shooting down a Japanese bomber before it could crash into the USS Enterprise.

    But Jonas' New York accent is all wrong. Gaido grew up in Milwaukee.

    "It wasn't right, but whatever," said Gaido's nephew Mike Bortolotti, who served in Vietnam in the Marines. "I'm still in awe of what he did."

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    Midway is one of my favorite films, I refuse to see the new one because i heard it was bad.
    "We saw it…. the hussars let loose their horses. God, what power! They ran through the smoke and the sound was like that of a thousand blacksmiths beating with a thousand hammers

    They rush on to the Swedes! They crash into the Swedish riters…. Overwhelm them! They crash into the second regiment - Overwhelmed! Resistance collapses, dissolves, they move forward as easily as if they were parading on a grand boulevard

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    Quote Originally Posted by elsid13 View Post
    Midway is one of my favorite films, I refuse to see the new one because i heard it was bad.
    Not true at all - FAR superior to the 1975 version. They got the details right, and that matters
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought View Post
    Not true at all - FAR superior to the 1975 version. They got the details right, and that matters
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    "We saw it…. the hussars let loose their horses. God, what power! They ran through the smoke and the sound was like that of a thousand blacksmiths beating with a thousand hammers

    They rush on to the Swedes! They crash into the Swedish riters…. Overwhelm them! They crash into the second regiment - Overwhelmed! Resistance collapses, dissolves, they move forward as easily as if they were parading on a grand boulevard

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