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The majority were actually RB-17Bs upgraded to B-17C/D standards, as was the B-17 that portrayed Mary-Ann. The bomber's on-screen, "wartime security" serial number 05564 (actually "40-5564") is listed in the film credits. The bomber's actual serial number was 8584 ("38-584"), being so marked on the left side of the vertical tail.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Above Suspicion: Richard Thorpe: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt: Spy: MGM: Action in the North Atlantic: Lloyd Bacon, Raoul Walsh: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr.
The captain issues arrest orders for anyone in the village suspected to be part of the plot. He then takes a group of soldiers to the factory in an attempt to stop the plot from happening, still not knowing it will be bombed in an air raid. All the women farmers from the village become suspects and are arrested and imprisoned.
The October 1943 footage was filmed during Eighth Air Force attacks on Nazi Germany industrial targets in Anklam, the 22nd Air Base in Marienburg (on the 9th), [1] and Gdynia in occupied Poland. Prior to the combat footage, the documentary explains Operation Pointblank target selection and depicts planning, briefing, and preparation.
The tour of duty for B-52 crewmen is four to six months. [3] During WWII in the USAAF bomber command, a tour of duty was 25 missions, and the first bomber B-17 crew to achieve this is that of the Memphis Belle. [4] The first B-24 crew to achieve this was Hot Stuff, but they ended up flying five more missions before returning to the USA to sell ...
Clark Gable next to a B-17, 1943 Full movie. Combat America is a 1945 documentary film produced in World War II, narrated by Clark Gable. At the time of the film's production in 1943, Gable was a 1st Lieutenant in the Eighth Air Force, part of the United States Army Air Forces. While he was stationed in England, Gable flew five combat missions ...
The All American (full name All American III [1]) was a World War II Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress heavy bomber that was able to return safely to its base after having its rear fuselage nearly cut off by an in-flight collision with a German Bf 109 over enemy-held territory. The bomber's flight is said to have yielded one of the most famous ...
Bombardier is a 1943 film war drama about the training program for bombardiers of the United States Army Air Forces. The film stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott. Bombardier was nominated for an Oscar in 1944 for the special effects used in the film. It was largely filmed at Kirtland Army Air Field, New Mexico, site of the first bombardier ...