Task Force (film) Battle of Midway scene, the "Japanese carrier" blowing up is actually exploding after being torpedoed by . When Cooper and Brennan attend the mid-1920s reception in Washington, D.C., the Chief of Naval Operations is called "Admiral Ames" (Moroni Olsen); the real CNO was Admiral Edward Walter Eberle. The movie CNO is clean shaven, Eberle had a full beard. Seen listening to Scott (Gary Cooper) tell Sen. Bentley (Stanley Ridges) about the use of aircraft carriers over battleships in future naval warfare and that Japan is a threat to the United States, the real Japanese naval attaché who would have heard
1st Air Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) the Japanese carrier force was again practically without aircrew and aircraft. This meant that at the Battle of Leyte Gulf the IJN carrier force was only used as a decoy force where it was ultimately destroyed, the battle that saw the last "Kidō Butai" survivor, "Zuikaku", along with "Zuiho", "Chiyoda" and "Chitose" succumbing to US air attacks of Admiral William F. Halsey's Task Force 38. 1st Air Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) The also known as the "Kidō Butai" ("Mobile Force"), was a name used for a combined carrier battle group comprising most of the aircraft carriers and carrier air groups