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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Just watched a History Buffs video review of the movie, Midway. It seemed to me the flak coming up against the SBD's was heavier and a little more accurate than what I have read. I also question the altitude of the bomb releases from the SBD's. I also think there were too many Zeros as CAP defending the last CV left, Hiryu.
PlasticHero
Senior Airman
Anything from Red Tails whereas the original Tuskegee Airmen was pretty good.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Memphis Belle going around for a second try because they might have hit the school that was right next to the factory they were supposed to bomb.
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The appearance of the flak against the SBD's struck me as what you've mentioned and I put it down to 'dramatic license'. I did not know that the rear gunners job was to call out the altitudes to let the pilot know when the correct release altitude was reached. I had always thought the pilot had some sort of 'heads up' indicator for that. I know that the Stuka used an automatic release and pull up system to relieve the pilot of some of the work load. Again the extra Zero's over the Hiryu were probably put there by the film makers to make the odds against the SBD's appear greater.
I thought they should have shown a greater number of TBD's along with at least a couple of more torpedo failures to give a truer impression of just how bad the unreliable torpedo situation was during that time.
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The only time I saw that was in the film 'The Longest Day' which, given the lack of CGI or something comparable at the time, I think can be forgiven. At least it was a 108 and not a P-51 in LW markings.
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I remember them going around but forgot the reason.
Thumpalumpacus
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AT-6s as Zeroes bugs me. So do Shermans given a Balkankreuz and sent on a rampage.
An A-36 or a Bouchon looks more like a Bf109, the Bf108 looks like a Cessna. There are several movies that it has been used in.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I just give them a pass if it's pre CG. Zeros have been kind of hard to come by. If a producer uses AT-6's, I understand and it shows some thought. At least they didn't use a bunch of Cessna 152's. Same story with panzers. As long as they don't use Shermans as Germans. It's a distinctive shape and if you were filming in the U.S., you could have come up with metric buttload of M-4's. Then use the M-47s or M-48s or whatever as panzers.
Though not strictly a flying scene(?), in the movie Pearl Harbor, with all the CG used they didn't "overwrite" the Spruance class ships. A pretty good job on the BB's but just left modern warships in.
Though not strictly a flying scene(?), in the movie Pearl Harbor, with all the CG used they didn't "overwrite" the Spruance class ships. A pretty good job on the BB's but just left modern warships in.
Crimea_River
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...and did a wheels down landing on a beach and kept the plane upright
....and his burning Spitfire appeared to have a 2 inch pipe for an engine.
....and his burning Spitfire appeared to have a 2 inch pipe for an engine.
special ed
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Many years back when Guns of Navarrone was released I went to the theater with a friend who had been stationed in Germany three years. He began to translate the German dialog and we discovered two sisters I went to high school with sitting in front of us. They had been born and raised in Greece, so they began to translate the Greek dialog until one of them said, "I can't say that. I's very vulgar." As far as accuracy, that was the only part that didn't match the subtitles.
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I've seen the HA-1112 in a couple of films and remember; it is a Bf-109 with a Rolls Royce-Merlin engine (talk about full circle). Perhaps that type was unavailable or too expensive at the time for the film I mentioned. It was right around then or shortly after that the Spanish Air Force stopped using the type. The deep fuselage of the A-36/P-51 gives them away. The 108 does look like a number of modern low wing general aviation airplanes.
The recent Midway, which I liked, but, too many B-26's, no B-17's attacking the fleet, Devastator crashing into an IJN ship on one of the torpedo runs and too much flak against the Dauntless'. All of this could have "easily" been fixed with CGI. Really burns my ass. So close...
I'd say it looks more like a Piper, but...details....
IFollowRoads
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I nominate "FURY". Especially the last 30 minutes when the Germans presented themselves as target practice for "FURY". Bla.
