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[Zippythehog]

I very lazily tried to look up a movie that had James Garner in it once. He was a pilot (probably) in the RAF or Coastal Command. I remember seeing a scene with a B-17 that looked wrong. Anyone else remember that or did I just forget to take my meds?
I was about 4 or 5 at the time.

Maybe you're thinking of Steve McQueen in The War Lover?

 

[SaparotRob]

Maybe you're thinking of Steve McQueen in The War Lover?

I saw the movie with the "wrong" B-17 about 1960 or 1961. Possibly '59.

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull Cruiser Scouting Squadron 4 in flight over Hawaii AERO

 

[Viking1066]

Dauntless taxis into position aboard the USS Ranger (CV-4). The Dauntless is armed with a depth charge INHG

 

[Viking1066]

F4F 3S Wildcatfish NAS Norfolk 1943 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

F6F-5 Hellcats assigned to VF-9 pictured during flight operations on board USS Lexington (CV 16) 1945 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

First production SB2U-3 was actually completed as a float plane and was reconfigured to a land plane after the Navv cancelledt float scout aircraft project BOWE

 

[Viking1066]

Fokker D.XXI 'FR-83' October 1943 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

After trials at Boscombe Down, FD216 was allocated to 587 Sqn where it towed targets for anti-aircraft gunners 1944 AIRH

 

[MIflyer]

During the winter of 1944-45 the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron received some A-20G to supplement the limited number of P-61 they had available. So, while they had no P-70's In Europe, the Havoc got some night fighter action there, too.

 

[SaparotRob]

During the winter of 1944-45 the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron received some A-20G to supplement the limited number of P-61 they had available. So, while they had no P-70's In Europe, the Havoc got some night fighter action there, too.

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Gotta love the classics.

 

[Viking1066]

Messerschmitt Bf-109G-2 April 1943 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Lineman sets prop on TBD at NAS Pensacola 1938 RIGG

 

[Viking1066]

JRS-1, J2F, and OS2U aircraft Ford Island early 1942 photo 1 of 2 WW2B

 

[flypaper2222]

Ooops

 

[special ed]

Those damn Marines.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Ooops

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Diorama idea.

 

[SaparotRob]

Ooops

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Hi honey, I'm home.

 

[cammerjeff]

If it wasn't a marine SBD, I would think it was something my father would have accomplished!

 

[MIflyer]

One of the first drive through restaurants.