My favorite story of WWII. I've read Shattered Sword and Midway (by a Japanese aviator who was there, Fuchida I think).
I've seen the 1976 movie many times (and chuckled at the archival footage used of aircraft that were not available 77years ago). On that note, this November there is apparently a remake of Midway coming to theaters - although as a warbirds nut, I don't have very good expectations if they cannot get something as vital to the story correct as the SBD Dauntless; the movie's poster features a Dauntless firing wing machine guns with a four-bladed prop spinning from its radial engine. I know of no Dauntless dive bombers fitted with guns in the wings or a four-bladed prop.