Warbird Information Exchange

I was thinking yesterday what warbird we have seen the most in pop culture, movies, books, etc.

The only one I come up with is my favorite the P-40!


Just a few that I can think of:

Dogfights
Torax3
Midway
Sky Captain
God is my Copilot
Air Force
Flying Tigers
Pearl Harbor
Hellfighters(with John Wayne)
Several Flight sims and computer games featuring the P-40
Front page covers of warbird calenders
Valkyrie
1941
Many wartime advertisments.

Not bad for the old Warhawk.

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Also for the P-40:
Waiting for Dublin

And don't forget some of the P-40's in TV movies:

"Birds of Prey"
"Death Race" (aka in Canada "State of Division")
"Flying Misfits", Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Pilot Film

I'm sure there's more!
Jerry

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I would say the P-51 Mustang. It is the plane that simply everyone knows. If you tell someone a P-40, chances are they have no idea what you are talking about. If you say Flying Tigers, then they get it. But the Mustang is one that everyone knows. I would say close seconds are the B-17, C-47, and the Spitfire.

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The way some people see it, the only fighters during WWII where the P-51, Corsair, Zero, Spit and ME109 and the Flying Tiger plane, really, that is how someone once described it to me!

As for Bombers, only the B-17 and B-25 ever did anything! Ze Germans and the Japanese used only Zero's and Messoschmits!

Is that maybe because by the time some of those movies were made they were second-rate fighters and were available for use in the movies...

Ryan

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The T-6...usually playing a A6M.

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LMAO!!!!! Only in every WWII Pacific film before and after Tora, Tora, Tora!!!

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It's got to be the Spitfire, surely?

Cinema:
The Lion Has Wings
First of the Few
Mrs Miniver
Angels One-Five
Reach for the Sky
The Malta Story
The Train
Operation Crossbow
Battle of Britain
Hope and Glory
The Land Girls
Pearl Harbor
Dark Blue World

TV:
Piece of Cake
A Perfect Hero
Poirot
Over Here
Foyle's War
First Light
Not to mention umpteen Battle of Britain documentaries.

Books: (I've no idea how many, but the last time I was in my local bookshop, there were three on the shelf, and four of the Osprey Aces books on another rack)

Commando/Air Ace comics

Video/PC flight-sim games:
Spitfire '40
Tornado ECR (you could fly the Spitfire and Hurricane in this, as well as the titular jet)
Spitfire
WingOver
WingOver 2
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Heroes of the Pacific (Spitfire and Seafire)
Heroes Over Europe
Blazing Angels - Squadrons of WW2
Blazing Angels 2 - Secret Missions of WW2
Air Conflict - Secret Wars
Combat Flight Simulator series

etc etc....

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Daz

...or P-47 (A Bridge Too far),

or a Fw-190 (Where Eagles Dare),

or an SBD (War and Remembrance)

or...?

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Hi Chris,

You are talked about the probable best known warbird from WW2. Which I agree. But I ment in terms of publication, movies, etc.

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Could the first movie to use T-6's as Zero's be "God is my copilot"?

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Air Force, maybe?

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Daz

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and don't forget MH434's short but memorable appearance in "A Bridge Too Far"!
Jerry

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Of course, I totally forgot those two films.

Also, I forgot Aces: Iron Eagle 3!

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Cheers

Daz

I havent seen Air Force in awhile but you are probably correct. Although I remember P-43's being used as Zero's. More or less stock footage of a fast flying P-43.

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