George Chamberlain Duncan's flight-deck crash aboard Midway left him with burns after the aircraft's fuselage broke away and slid along the deck. The footage later appeared in The Men of the Fighting Lady and, according to some source lists, Midway and The Hunt for Red October. Sources disagree about how many films used it, so the attribution beyond the best-known example remains uncertain. The accident is a carrier-safety case and a reminder that dramatic film images can originate in real naval accidents.
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A Midway crash became reusable film footage
George Chamberlain Duncan's crash aboard Midway illustrates both the danger of postwar carrier aviation and the later reuse of real accident footage in feature films.