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Thank you for that reasonable reply. You're exactly right. Some people think they should stick to the straight facts, without any embellishment. That's simply unrealistic. MOTA is NOT a documentary. It's a drama made for mass consumption.Unless it's sold as a documentary, of course they are going to take liberties with the history in order to display 24 months in 11 hours. I don't mind if the model of P-51 isn't exactly correct.
I do find it irritating that they should shoehorn the Red Tails into a story that really has nothing to do with them.
Thank you for that reasonable reply. You're exactly right. Some people think they should stick to the straight facts, without any embellishment. That's simply unrealistic. MOTA is NOT a documentary. It's a drama made for mass consumption.
Admittedly, I don't get the Red Tails' inclusion either, but it's one of the artistic liberties the producers have taken.
The bottom line is, enjoy the series for what it is, and don't complain because it's not 100% spot-on factual.
i'm touched - but consider your reply to me earlier. "It's ok to create a fairly tale - get over it!"And I'm truly ungrateful at your terse, condescending response. You just don't get get what this series is about or the way programs of this type are created.
You should be honored. You're the first wiseguy I'll put on my ignore list here. I suggest you do the same.
What Bill said.Jeez - historically crap. The 332nd didn't fly P-51B/C until July 1944. P-5D/K in December 1944. AFIK, nobody in 8th AF or 15th or 12th or 9th AF ever flew a rocket attack mission in a P-51D-20 (kit) or P-51D-25 (production).
USN and RN were flying carrier based attacks to support Dragoon.
The only P-51B/D populated missions from Italy (Foggia) over southern France were the return legs of the UK based Frantic missions between July and Sept 22nd, 1944. My father led the last one. The latest model P-51D in combat at that time was P-51D-10-NA.
Looks like Gulf War re-enactment to go after radar sites - with no GPS, just typical fighter pilot navigation skills (notoriously low) to find needle in haystack targets with as yet unavailable and historically in-accurate rockets.
Far cry from Band of Brothers. Disappointing is an understatement.
The problem is they don't even come close to 75%, more like 5% correct. Hanks himself said in an interview about Band that they were striving for something like 6% correct, so let that sink in.I wish some of you would stop belly aching about historical accuracy. This is a Hollywood production, not a documentary. Of course, they are going to take some liberties with the historical facts. It's for mass television consumption. It's entertainment. That's the way it works. The average person watching this show doesn't care if they were flying P-51Bs, Cs, or Ds. If Hanks and Spielberg can get 75% of the story right, can give us the essence of what happened then, it's the best you're going to get. Deal with it, watch the episodes (or not) and accept it for what it is.
I was most upset by the totally spurious insertion of the John Egan character into the otherwise reasonably accurate portrayal of the Russelsheim incident.
I was expecting and 8th AF epic about the battle for control of the air before D-Day. To me, it was an epic fail on almost every sub topic, but mostly the abundance of factual inacurracies when the adherence to facts would not have detracted from the story line. Harkens back to an old Southern comment "That stupid bastard will lie when the truth is better".
Perhaps the most puzzling omission of all was complete deletion of VIII Fighter Command from the storyline.