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Chris Brame
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James Farmer's book Cellluloid Wings mentions several unproduced or uncompleted aviation war films in its appendices; one was a stillborn 1970s production entitled COM TAC 303 that was about the all-black fighter squadron now seen in Red Tails. Does anyone have more information on this one?

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FWIW I found references to it on Page 19
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HLs ... lm&f=false

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Bob Crane Cast member, "Com-Tac 303, " a war film that started shooting in August, 1977, but was never completed. Billy Dee Williams, Greg Morris, and Henry Fonda were also in the cast of this film, directed by Robert Totten, about an African American combat aviators in World War II.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186314/otherworks

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/175061

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