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I heard a rumor back in the 70s that some producers were looking to do a movie about Ploesti in the same scale as Tora, Tora, Tora and Midway, but the USAF didn't want to cooperate because it was going to make them look bad - plus the lack of B-24s didn't help.Matt - Could not possibly have a better choice of an epic and important illustration of perhaps the greates life and death drama of USAAF heavy bombers on one of the most important missions of the war -
Leon Johnson taking the 44th in with delayed action fuses going off from the 93rd just minutes earlier, gunners dueling with flak batteries and a flak train running parallel, coming home with wheat and corn stalk chaff in the bomb bays and only one more guy from the lead squadron .. 5 MoH..
Who could possibly capture that on film?
somebody tell me again about the 332nd?
thanks Comiso and here is another rather lengthy thesis in more detail, still trying to find out the Ju 88 KG that did the damage, one report says only 20 Ju 88A-4's did the carnage ........
Curt Maynard's Blog: Bari Revisited
I heard a rumor back in the 70s that some producers were looking to do a movie about Ploesti in the same scale as Tora, Tora, Tora and Midway, but the USAF didn't want to cooperate because it was going to make them look bad - plus the lack of B-24s didn't help.
thanks Comiso and here is another rather lengthy thesis in more detail, still trying to find out the Ju 88 KG that did the damage, one report says only 20 Ju 88A-4's did the carnage ........
Curt Maynard's Blog: Bari Revisited
Matt my response with link posted was just to give another overview, funny how everyone gets a bunched up panties once in awhile during the war, what if and if you do we will retaliate with something even more evil. In a movie form if there would be any truth and not a fantasy the attack on Bari would be something, doubt it will ever happen as it was a total govt, cover-up during the war and still is. the 1-3 books on the subject are sadly lacking
Silly walkin Bastard, I like the siggy Cosimo.....
There are soooo many other topics worth making a movie about concerning the air-war during WW2.... Why a bunch of over-hyped black guys flying Mustangs is more interesting than say the Cactus Air force or the Black sheep or the disasters at Schweinfurt (sp) or Cassel is lost on me....
There already has been a movie about the Tuskeegee Project, and in it they propagated the myth even more so about not losing a single bomber while escorting....
Pure horseshit...