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Pjay

In Reply to: Re: "Memphis Belle" posted by patrickU on April 19, 2006 at 12:49:14:

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.
P

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Re: I have that one . . . - patrickU 01:24:14 04/22/06 (2)
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.
- Re: I have that one . . . - Pjay 07:12:14 04/22/06 (1)
  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.
  P
  
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  - Re: I have that one . . . - patrickU 08:27:46 04/22/06 (0)
    Thank you for the complete answer!
    It shows only that the same rule apply everywhere...
meant B24, not b26 - Pjay 17:17:35 04/21/06 (0)
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