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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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Jack Cook
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Can't ya just hear the QB:

"BEE SEVENTEEN! BEE SEVENTEEN! HIKE!!!"

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Now that's just plain funny! Well said, Dean. :lol:

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If they're typical Americans they're playing full contact touch football. :shock: 8)

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Fairmont Army Air Field, Geneva, Nebraska 1943.

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Footsteps in time....

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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.

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No flames here...I thought it was an abyssmal movie, but the B-17s were still cool. 8) 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!

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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...
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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.

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The movie did seem to capture how young they were.

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Well...you know Hollyweird. Never let facts get in the way of a good story.

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