- Send a flash message to Admiral Fletcher. This is not, repeat, not main body. Expect enemy carrier forces strike tomorrow from behind storm front...
- Via northwest, as previously anticipated. Signed, Nimitz.
14 seconds sound clip from the Midway (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:01:24.731 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Well, they may be just beyond his horizon, Admiral.
- If they are, Fletcher's in the wrong place. He's too far north.
- He'd have to move right now at flank speed to get within striking distance before sunset.
- But if Nagumo's carriers are where we figured coming in behind this storm front...
- Fletcher'd be caught between two forces.
- Yes, if we let him head for that main body sighting.
- Via northwest, as previously anticipated. Signed, Nimitz.
- Well, that settles that. CINCPAC must think the PBY sighted only Kondo's invasion force.
- But if it's Nagumo's attack force with his carriers, and his scouts find us before we find them...
- Captain Buckmaster, sound general quarters.
- Weather is clearing, sir. We could not have timed it better.
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