Air Battle of Midway - References

This page lists various references I have used in the creation of "Air Battle of Midway".

General Information About The Battle

Books

• Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, 2005

Web sites

• Midway, 1942: Facts & Documents

YouTube Videos

Flight Deck Crews: Landing & Re-Spotting World War 2 Aircraft Carrier Planes

CARRIER OPERATIONS AT SEA PART 1 1944

CARRIER OPERATIONS AT SEA PART 2 1944

The Fighting Lady (1944), a color film about the Essex-class USS Yorktown CV-10, filmed in 1943.

WORLD WAR II LIFE & DEATH OF AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER FILM " DAY OF BATTLE "

Modeling References

Aircraft

• Brewster Buffalo 3-way Drawings (plans.aero)
• Pienoismallit.net Brewster Images

Cockpits

• Brewster F2A Buffalo (Brewster Buffalo cockpit is position number 7 in the tour)

Ships

USS Yorktown CV-5

• Booklet of General Plans (including USS Yorktown, USS Astoria, etc)
• Yorktown Images from Navsource.org

USS Enterprise CV-6

• High-resolution photos from Wikimedia Commons
• Enterprise Images from Navsource.org, including this rare color photo:
  

Aircraft Performance References

• WW2Aircraft.net Forum

Technology References

• Computer Graphics Techniques Articles by Inigo Quilez
• Intel Cloud Shader Sample
• kode80 Clouds for Unity3D
• "Weather Maker" Unity Plugin Readme (includes lots of interesting references)
• List of Cloud Technologies