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This is a well done telling of the last mission of a WW II b-17 bomber crew who were the first to achieve 25 bombing missions over Europe. The casting is well done and I am always struck by how young the crew was, most 18 or 19. The action sequences are splendid.
John Lithgow is a bit much as a PR. officer trying to get publicity from the crew's achievement.
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> > I am always struck by how young the crew was, most 18 or 19 < <I once talked to a guy who had piloted a B-24 in WW2, flying out of North Africa. He'd been in the infamous Ploesti raid. The guys in his crew called him "Pops" because he was the oldest - a geriatric 20. He told me that one of the hardest parts of the job was having to be the responsible grown - up who had to roust the crew out of bed in the morning, tell them when to leave the pub at night, and so forth. I remember what I was like at 20 and I can't imagine having that kind of life and death responsability for eight men at that age.
You have to go through this one too.
I taped it a million years ago. I had it on 16mm and used a vhs recorder to tape it. My uncle was a $1 a year man and would show movies and sell war bonds. When the war ended, he started sending the movies back until someone told him there was no record of them and he should keep them. So he had about 20 films. When I was living there, I would get the 16mm projector out on rainy days and play war films.Memphis bell (not that great)
The fleet that came to stay (very good, you see clips in 100s of Hwood movies)
The Penny (excellent, need to be remade)
"Captured Japanese film" (gruesome US propaganda)
The Burma Road (five stars! Reagan narrates)
destination Tokyo (not the hollywood version)
Some movie with straffing, don't remember the name
Some movie following Clark Gable around,
Some movie with a song about how great is it to "kill japs"
Diary of a seargent
one more in the pacific which name escapes me.Maybe a few more.
My stepfather was a B26 pilot and got shot down and spent time in camp. Lots of stories there.
MB is not that great, but still worth." My uncle was a $1 a year man " What do you mean by this?
Thank you for your evaluation.
If you had, um, "connections" and some dad did not want their son to go to war, they would "get" some local official to do some paperwork and the son would get a "$1 a year" assignment. They would do a fair amouunt of mostly easy work, like showing war bond films to moms and workers, or driving generals from the airport, and not get drafted. They were paid $1 per year. My aunt still has the check in a frame with a commendation from some elected official thanking my uncle for his service.If Bush had been in WWII, he would have doen $1 a year instead of not showing up for NG.
It was a "legal" way to get kids out of the war. Almost everyone who did it has ind means, as it did not allow another job and only paid $1 per year.
Thank you for the complete answer!
It shows only that the same rule apply everywhere...
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Thanks, Patrick. I'll check miyt out. Regards, rico
And Memphis Belle has a much better screenplay, too.I'm a pushover for anything involving World War 2 aviation-I highly recommend the British miniseries Piece of Cake, available on DVD from Netflix.
Have you seen "The War bLover" with Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner?
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