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Oliver Stone was a Vietnam War infantryman who saw plenty of action.
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Oliver Stone was a Vietnam War infantryman who saw plenty of action.
Glider
Major
Have to go with Das Boot. I have spoken to four different British WW2 submariners, without exception and unprompted they have said that to see what life was like in a WW2 Submarine, watch Das Boot.
Thats good enough for me.
The great director, John Ford was at Omaha beach
actors:
Eddie Albert was at Tarawa
Jimmy Stewart flew B-17's
syscom3
Pacific Historian
Jimmy Stewert flew B24's, and was a B47 pilot in SAC. He even flew a sortie over Vietnam in a B52 as an observer.
Wildcat
Major
He also filmed the attack on Midway Is. Director Sam Peckinpah (cross of Iron) was in the USMC in WWII and saw combat in the Pacific. Sam Fuller (Merrill's Marauders, Big red One) also fought in Europe.
Soundbreaker Welch?
Tech Sergeant
John Ford had a sense of humor, even in that one.
comiso90
Thats all cool, but I kinda meant specific to Vietnam, which was the war that the media fought until we lost. Its been down hill ever since IMHO. When those guys came home it was a bit different than when we came home in 68/69. Tickertape doesn't stick to your uniform like spit does.
Sorry if I rant.
Thats all cool, but I kinda meant specific to Vietnam, which was the war that the media fought until we lost. Its been down hill ever since IMHO. When those guys came home it was a bit different than when we came home in 68/69. Tickertape doesn't stick to your uniform like spit does.
Sorry if I rant.
Cyrano
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Wildcat
Major
Looks good.
ToughOmbre
Senior Master Sergeant
Tora! Tora! Tora! Very historically accurate. I know that the B-17s were Gs and the Jap carriers were American in the launch scenes, but the history was right on.
renrich
Chief Master Sergeant
Speaking of Hollywood types on active duty, there was a movie producer named Merriman(or Merriam) quite famous at one time who was quite an adventurer. Among other things he was a WW1 fighter pilot. He produced what I think is the greatest western movie ever(maybe the best movie ever) "The Searchers."
Negative Creep
Staff Sergeant
Weren't most of the Zeros converted T5s as well? I do know one scene, where a taxing P40 gets hit, the detonation went wrong, and it veered way off course. So the extras aren't acting, they really are running for their lives
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There is a bit in Pearl Harbour where a Kate gunner is waving at nearby children to get them out of the way. That bit has always struck me as unrealistic; would Japanese airmen have done such a thing?
DOUGRD
Staff Sergeant
The aircraft were modified T-6's. I saw one a couple of years after the movie was made. Very interesting Mod. As for the additional question, I wonder? After reading so many accounts of Jap pilots gunning down our pilots when they were hanging in their parachutes it makes me tend to doubt it. I read an account today of a Jap pilot trying to cut up a parachuting Marine pilot and on his third pass , before he was chased away, he did manage to cut off half of the dudes right foot. But who knows? I'd say little kids are little kids all over the world and I wouldn't harm one intentionally, not even a Raghead one.
DOUGRD
Staff Sergeant
I do know one scene, where a taxing P40 gets hit, the detonation went wrong, and it veered way off course. So the extras aren't acting, they really are running for their lives
That's pretty interesting, I never heard that before. To me ,that's some of the most interesting history about a movie. What really happened while it was being made. I read an article about the movie "The Fugitive" starring Harrison Ford and the scene where they staged the train wreck...Those weren't models but the real thing! The production company found out it was cheaper to buy real ( retired ) locomotives and wreck them than to have a model scene fabricated. Another interesting tidbit... After the wreck when Harrison Ford looks up from under the bridge... In the original film there was a man looking back down at him. Trouble was no one knows who he was. He wasn't a member of the cast or crew and he wasn't seen afterwards. Now that's weird!
Negative Creep
Staff Sergeant
You'd love the trivia sections of The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) you can spend days learning useless crap on there!
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