vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Today a herd of Yellow Jackets decided to take over my office. After I killed the 5th one, I thought it better to call the professionals and get the hell out of Dodge.
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If I remeber right, they used the Vultee BT-15 as Japanese aircraft for Tora! Tora! Tora!
Age is creeping up on me too...lolA long, long, time ago I thought I read they were mostly converted AT-6's. My mind is like a steal trap, but it's starting to rust a bit so I may be mistaken.
But that was such a good scene, why not share it with everyone?Most of that is from WW2 Hollywood, when we didn't have much footage of Japanese planes. It was usual to paint an "Angry Red Meatball" on Dauntless' and Wildcats, and call them "Vals" and "Zeroes". Look at the John Wayne classic, "They Were Expendable", when Kingfishers attacked the P.T.'s.
Then there is the exploding hanger/P.B.Y. scene that was in "Tora Tora Tora", "Midway", "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and just about every documentary since.
camera in time!If I remeber right, they used the Vultee BT-15 as Japanese aircraft for Tora! Tora! Tora!
While that may be forgivable since period Japanese warplanes are so scarce, I do get irritated when I see movies like Battle Of The Bulge using cold-war era armor for German panzers (U.S. M60)
A long, long, time ago I thought I read they were mostly converted AT-6's. My mind is like a steal trap, but it's starting to rust a bit so I may be mistaken.
Planes of Fame just happens to own one of the Tora, Tora, Tora movie Val's. It was flown as recently as the airshow at Chino in May.Age is creeping up on me too...lol
The AT-6 was used for the Zero and the BT-15 was used for the Vals, I believe
Caller ID is well worth it. I don't answer the phone if I don't know who it is. If it's important to them they can leave a message.Someone has been calling here lately and as soon as I answer the phone, they hang up. I don't have caller ID because I don't want to pay extra for it, but I am really considering it.
Not only does it piss me off, but it takes a hell of an effort for me to wheel my azz across the house to catch the phone to start with.
And to top that off, while I was typing this post, a fire-bomber came right over my place low and slow and I couldn't get to mycamera in time!
Beer-thirty is coming early today...
