Coming to a theater new you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuskegee_Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen II? I remember watching the first one about a million times when I was a kid. Funny that Cuba Gooding is in both of them...
It's a myth that the Tuskeegee Airmen never lost a bomber to a fighter, they lost ~ 25 to enemy fighters. Overall, their kill record was average with 112 or so kills and one ace (though not official).
Really needs to be a Navy Air in the Pacific movie/miniseries before long.
Well, looks pretty promising. I was wondering when the Spielberg/Tom Hanks team would get around the the bomber campaign; guess this'll do.
Really needs to be a Navy Air in the Pacific movie/miniseries before long.
Seeing as I'm just finishing up Shattered Sword, it would be interesting to see someone come out and portray Midway as the two-sided clusterf**k it was instead of the Mother of All Naval Battles.Yeah, I was really disappointed with the lack of Naval aviation in "The Pacific" - the Guadalcanal episode especially would have been appropriate for a depiction of Torpedo Squadron Eight at least.
The possibility that crossed my mind was that it might be prohibitively expensive to make a highly realistic film about WWII carrier aviation due to the lack of appropriate boats (see the shots in "Pearl Harbor" with catapaults and angled decks clearly visible as Doolittle's bombers launch). But I'm still hoping for it.