I recreated a dramatic interpretation of Torpedo Sqaudron 8's Battle at Midway with the most accurate and up to date planes and skins available to to the flight sim community today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzsgEpEI6X8

TBD-1 Skins by Hayate courtesy of Mission4Today
The map is bp_Midway listed at All Aircraft Simulations and skins of the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu Zeros are available and courtesy of http://www.asisbiz.com/Zero.html
Thanks Team Daidalos and for ton414's post special Basic Mod Activator 0.001 Beta for 4.11m
Idea 4.11 SAS~CirX.
il2fb.exe and wrapper.dll files by QTim.
Generic Mod Enabler by JoneSoft.
Douglas TBD Devastator flyable. *ton414 made this aircraft flyable.*by "TD/Jason/ton414/Epervier"
Credits: Team Daidalos again thanks.
Shot with IL2 Sturmovik 1946 and edited with Sony Vegas 9

Wow really nice video Katdog5!

Great way to present a historic mission I had never heard about, well captured and edited cheers! Also IL2-1946 looks great there, will need to look into those mods for my own install.

I think there was mention of Gay in the movie Midway (including his rescue).

Nice job. Well done!

Wheels

Nice vid, well done!

Excellent job!

thats it was a hell of a day! very nice video.

Cheers

Nicely done. This story is told in compelling detail in "A Dawn Like Thunder" which details the story of Torpedo 8 from Midway to Guadalcanal. Not to be holier-than-thou on the military history minutia (but I'm doing it anyway) but it was John Waldon, not George Gay, that led the flight of VT-8 Devastators from the Hornet. Additionally, Langdon Fieberling led a flight of six VT-8 Avengers from Midway. As you mention, Gay was the only surviving member from the flight of Devastators that left the Hornet. The flight of Avengers fared little better - 5 of the 6 were shot down, and two aircrew survived. VT-8 later served in the Cactus Airforce on Guadalcanal. Their stuggle with disease, fatigue and air raids, naval gun fire, and infantry attacks was harrowing.