I read the book this was based off of over a decade ago (2010) and the book caused me to expand my interest in history to include WWI history as well which causes to understand how each war we are involved with is often an nothing more than an extension of the previous war. Once you begin to understand that concept it becomes easy to understand how the Afghanistan war is little more then unresolved issues stemming from the first Iraqi war.
The movie is fairly accurate to the actions depicted in the book. The battleship wasn't sunk right away as depicted in the movie, the Navy did get a team onboard the battleship and examine the damage caused by Mitchell's airplanes but as depicted in the movie he did manage to drive home that ships were indeed venerable from the air.
Between the sinking of the battleship and his court-martial, general Mitchell took a tour of Japan, a nation that had been our allies during WWI and tension had been growing between our two countries between the wars. After he toured the country he saw the increasing military buildup of a Japanese air power and the potential threat their military presented and wrote up an evaluation of the country presented to the United States as a whole. His assessment was brought up during the trial and it seems disturbingly prophetic watching a movie taking place more than two decades prior to our entry into WWII and filmed a little more than a decade after the conclusion of WWII, and the filmmakers took full advantage of that situation in how they presented it to the viewers.
The movie is fairly accurate to the actions depicted in the book. The battleship wasn't sunk right away as depicted in the movie, the Navy did get a team onboard the battleship and examine the damage caused by Mitchell's airplanes but as depicted in the movie he did manage to drive home that ships were indeed venerable from the air.
Between the sinking of the battleship and his court-martial, general Mitchell took a tour of Japan, a nation that had been our allies during WWI and tension had been growing between our two countries between the wars. After he toured the country he saw the increasing military buildup of a Japanese air power and the potential threat their military presented and wrote up an evaluation of the country presented to the United States as a whole. His assessment was brought up during the trial and it seems disturbingly prophetic watching a movie taking place more than two decades prior to our entry into WWII and filmed a little more than a decade after the conclusion of WWII, and the filmmakers took full advantage of that situation in how they presented it to the viewers.