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


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gary1954
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Flat 12x2 wrote:
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Now I got to find a copy of the movie and watch it again. :D 8)
Robbie

Heres a little reminder, including a mass takeoff in this clip.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNnWw1YHGg&feature=related

P.S. Stoney , I've always loved the down the runway shot of the mass takeoff, I thought you all purposefully were all over the place rather than a neat formation takeoff , after your story I now know different !
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Before I read of the Catch 22 Air Force in *pukes* Air Classics, the Late Great Frank Tallman told me that the cross winds at location were very bad, and d a m n e d near dangerous

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Nope never seen it!

Thanks for the clip though Martin,I shall definately have to see the rest now!

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ALAN.L wrote:
Nope never seen it!

Thanks for the clip though Martin,I shall definately have to see the rest now!


YOU!!! have never seen Catch 22?? :shock:
SOMEBODY Please help me up from the floor :D

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Which of the aircraft were painted up as M&M Enterprises aircraft for the contact bombing by the Germans to bomb the AAF base?

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Great thread w/great story and photos ................. I'm on the hunt for the movie.
Keep up to good work, it is magnificant,

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The movie does start to slow down (at least for me) when they get into town,

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Stoney wrote:
MITCHELLS OVER MEXICO

or 130 combat free hours in a B-25 over the Sea of Cortez

written and photos by L.P."Stoney" Stonich

"It's a Catch-22 situation". How many times have you
heard that phrase? How many of you remember reading the
satire "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, based on a B-25
squadron in the Mediterranean in WW II. Paramount Studios
made a movie based on this novel in 1969.



I read the Book 5 Times, and have used the phrase, thats a Catch 22 situation many times during my lifetime

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Catch-22 went through several title changes before Heller decided on the number 22. It was originally "Catch-18" but Heller changed it when Leon Uris's novel Mila 18 came out.

Heller later rejected "Catch-14" because 14 simply wasn't a "funny number." He settled on 22 because of its repeating numbers echo the repetition of certain phrases and scenes in the book. (Source)


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gary1954 wrote:
Which of the aircraft were painted up as M&M Enterprises aircraft for the contact bombing by the Germans to bomb the AAF base?


I know that one of the "M&M" painted B-25's was the Cavanaugh Museum's "How Boot That". When it was first flown to the Pennsylvania for outside display display in a cemetary, it arrived in it's "M&M" Colors.
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Ah, that would be
6F B-25J-15NC 43-28925 (N7687G), Superman

Thanks
I wonder what the others were

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the scene where colonel cathcart is taking a dump when the padre comes in is hilarious!!

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i flew in the air classics magazine pacific princess b-25 at the corsair gathering in mt. comfort indiana 2003. a 1 hour flight / pic shoot w/ jim read's corsair. i was in the shell of the top turret. is she 1 of the birds in catch 22?? if so which 1??

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Yup, it's a Catch 22 bird, don't know which one though.

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tom d. friedman wrote:
i flew in the air classics magazine pacific princess b-25 at the corsair gathering in mt. comfort indiana 2003. a 1 hour flight / pic shoot w/ jim read's corsair. i was in the shell of the top turret. is she 1 of the birds in catch 22?? if so which 1??


6G B-25J-5NC 43-28204 (N9856C), Booby Trap 39856C , Olive Drab
B-25J, Aero Traders, Chino, CA (A) Photo by Wiliam T. Larkins which he sent to me in the late somewhere between 1977 and 1981

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