Bomber Football
Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:42 pm
524th BS 379th BG 8th AF Kimbolton, England June 1944
B-17G s/n 42-38141 WA*D MIA Jul 9, 1944
Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:25 pm
Can't ya just hear the QB:
"BEE SEVENTEEN! BEE SEVENTEEN! HIKE!!!"
Dean the pseudo-comedian
"BEE SEVENTEEN! BEE SEVENTEEN! HIKE!!!"
Dean the pseudo-comedian
Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:40 pm
Now that's just plain funny! Well said, Dean.
Gary
Gary
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:29 pm
If they're typical Americans they're playing full contact touch football. 
Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:06 pm
I guess this game would be training prior to overseas movement?
Fairmont Army Air Field, Geneva, Nebraska 1943.
Scott
Fairmont Army Air Field, Geneva, Nebraska 1943.
Scott
Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:40 pm
Footsteps in time....
Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:57 am
I love the picture, and I know I am going to get flamed for this, but it reminds me of the opening in the 90's movie Memphis Belle.
Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:03 am
No flames here...I thought it was an abyssmal movie, but the B-17s were still cool. And it still isn't as bad as "Pearl Harbor."
It was kind of interesting..when "Memphis Belle" was showing at our local multi-plex, Glenn Lamont was at the airport over the hill selling rides in his B-25 "Guardian of Freedom." The theatre even promoted the movie by raffling off a flight. I ended up paying 100 bucks for a half-hour ride..a fortune for a college kid in 1990, but a bargain by today's standards!
SN
And it still isn't as bad as "Pearl Harbor."
It was kind of interesting..when "Memphis Belle" was showing at our local multi-plex, Glenn Lamont was at the airport over the hill selling rides in his B-25 "Guardian of Freedom." The theatre even promoted the movie by raffling off a flight. I ended up paying 100 bucks for a half-hour ride..a fortune for a college kid in 1990, but a bargain by today's standards!
SN
Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:06 am
No Flames Here...
Still watch it occasionally for the many shots of real B17's (no computer generated too pretty pictures) flying. I just don't pay attention to the story when I do watch it.
Had I known about it while it was happening, I would have traveled to the UK just to watch what I could when they were filming...I know, from far away, but still...
Still watch it occasionally for the many shots of real B17's (no computer generated too pretty pictures) flying. I just don't pay attention to the story when I do watch it.
Had I known about it while it was happening, I would have traveled to the UK just to watch what I could when they were filming...I know, from far away, but still...
Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:54 am
What is funny is if they had just changed the name of the airplane, it would have been pretty accurate. I can overlook the P-51 escorts because te Memphis belle did have escorts for part of the trip, but it was Spitfires, and the did not go on the whole mission. The worst scene in the movie in my opinion is the bombay scene when the guy is dangling above the open bombay. I came to later find out that that event was based on a true story that Vince Evans told someone. I do wish they would have just done more of a straight forward movie, but I think it is an accurate depiction of the life of a B-17 bomber crew in WWII. Just not the Memphis Belle.
Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:21 am
The movie did seem to capture how young they were.
Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:13 pm
Well...you know Hollyweird. Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
Mudge the cynic
Mudge the cynic