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Posted: 6/4/2001 11:39:22 AM EDT
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BTT
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Posted: 6/4/2001 11:39:42 AM EDT
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I was probably Hollywood adding their own spin.
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Posted: 6/4/2001 11:41:47 AM EDT
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I noticed that too. I thought, "what the heck is that all about". Though the movie was so-so, typical hollywood drivel, not very historically accurate as compared with Tora Tora Tora.
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Posted: 6/4/2001 11:49:16 AM EDT
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if you havent seen it, you may not want to read this...................
i thought they overglorified the "doolittle" raid of jap mainland. thay acted like it was the biggest victory in pacific and it won us the war. i dont belive that is accurate. |
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Posted: 6/4/2001 11:56:15 AM EDT
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Quoted: i thought they overglorified the "doolittle" raid of jap mainland. thay acted like it was the biggest victory in pacific and it won us the war. i dont belive that is accurate. Amen to that. They should have presented it as what it was, a way to show the American public that Japan was not invincible and we could hit them just as easily as they hit us. |
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Posted: 6/4/2001 11:57:55 AM EDT
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The accuracy was a little shakey. The planes and guns were historically correct. But some of the ships in the harbor were Agesis class ships. Look at the prows and radar arrays. They tried to digitally hide them but you could still tell. How does a fighter pilot checked to fly P-40s transition instantly to fly Spitfires and a B-25. You dont have a newbie fly a B-25 off a 400 ft deck. I guess they needed to keep the story going.
As for the nurses and their behavior that is historically correct. Cant trust anyone of them. Soon as you turn around they are with someone else! Personal experience. She had no reason to think I was even dead! |
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Posted: 6/4/2001 12:05:33 PM EDT
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Quoted: The accuracy was a little shakey. The planes and guns were historically correct. But some of the ships in the harbor were Agesis class ships. Look at the prows and radar arrays. They tried to digitally hide them but you could still tell. How does a fighter pilot checked to fly P-40s transition instantly to fly Spitfires and a B-25. You dont have a newbie fly a B-25 off a 400 ft deck. I guess they needed to keep the story going. Weren't the real doolittle radiers a bomber outfit from Georga? Not a mish mash unit of fighter pilots. |
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Posted: 6/4/2001 12:08:12 PM EDT
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From my understanding. All the guys selected were experienced B-25 pilots. Its not like driving a car. Next thing you know the liberals and democrats are going to wonder why we need separate fighter and bomber pilots when they can do both like in the movie!
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Posted: 6/4/2001 12:16:18 PM EDT
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Quoted: From my understanding. All the guys selected were experienced B-25 pilots. Its not like driving a car. Next thing you know the liberals and democrats are going to wonder why we need separate fighter and bomber pilots when they can do both like in the movie! Or they will wonder why we train pilots at all? If Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Afleck can fly plains can't everyone? |
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Posted: 6/4/2001 1:48:29 PM EDT
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Can someone tell me if Alec Baldwin buys the farm? If so, I might go see it.
Wow, that was my 1000th post! How fitting. :) |
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Posted: 6/4/2001 1:52:36 PM EDT
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sorry mattja, his charicter is quite chessy though
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Posted: 6/4/2001 4:05:47 PM EDT
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The Doolittle raid was very important, not only for the morale boost it gave our fighting men but for the message it sent to Japan. Without the Doolittle raid, the conduct of the war in the Pacific by the Japanese could have been much different and Midway might never have happened.
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