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Built at Boeing Seattle as XB-47. The second XB-47 built, after 46-65. First flight 21 July 1948. Test flown at Edwards AFB. In 1954 46-65 was scrapped, making 46-66 the oldest B-47 in existence, and the only surviving XB-47. Previously displayed at the since-closed Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum at the former Chanute AFB, Illinois. Returned ...
Against the Sun had a premiere at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 23, 2014. [4] The film was released to video on demand on January 23, 2015. Against the Sun also played at the Arena Theater in Los Angeles.
Unbroken is a 2014 American war drama film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson.It is based on the non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010).
The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort. For short films, see the List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World ...
Only flying B-17 survivor to have seen action in Europe during World War II. Sally B: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Bomber B-17 Preservation Ltd 1945- Only airworthy B-17 left in Europe. Used in the 1990 film Memphis Belle. Sentimental Journey: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Bomber Commemorative Air Force: 1945- Based at the Commemorative Air ...
In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the S.S. 1967 United States The Dirty Dozen: Robert Aldrich: Thriller based on E. M. Nathanson novel. US Army convicts on mission before D-Day: 1967 Italy Dirty Heroes: Dalle ...
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While the film follows the fate of the six-man crew of a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Sole Survivor is loosely based on the 1958 discovery of the B-24 Liberator bomber Lady Be Good in the Libyan desert. The Lady Be Good and her nine-man crew had disappeared without a trace in 1943, following its first and only combat mission in World War II. The ...