Warbird Information Exchange

Big full-page ad in major magazines for the new film about five major war-correspondent cinematographers (Frank Capra, John Ford, etc.) shows a helmeted buy with a cine camera strapped to his back. In the background are a half-dozen Bf-109s...with big swastikas rather than crosses as their fuselage insignia. I suppose they thought Millennials wouldn't get it otherwise.

I'm looking forward to seeing the documentary piece (it will be available starting March 31st). In conjunction with the release of this new documentary about the five filmmakers, 13 of the wartime movies discussed in the documentary are also coming to Netflix, including Ford’s "The Battle of Midway", Wyler’s "The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress" and "Thunderbolt", Huston’s "Report from the Aleutians", Capra’s "The Battle of Russia", Stevens’ "Nazi Concentration Camps", and Stuart Heisler’s "The Negro Soldier" - a number of these are supposed to be already now available on Netflix. Not only does it discuss the filmmaker's work during WWII, but also about how they came back from WWII to produce perhaps some of their greatest works, with classics like "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "It's a Wonderful Life".

Non Political Observation/Comment:

I've noticed lately on both AHC and MilHist as well as the occasional HC offerings that we are no longer fighting the Germans...only Nazi aircraft--Nazi ships--Nazi troops...Nazi etc....

Lately? That's been going on for decades. It's gotten to be like shorthand for "Germans".

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Dunno if I'd agree with that simplification. When discussing the period or the event of WW2, sometimes we forget the Nazi's were the enemy of the German people....just a majority of them at the time failed to realize that.

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This thread causes me to think of something I saw in the media just last week, with the Danish kid that found a buried Bf-109 wreck - when I saw it initially reported, I saw headlines such as "German Messerschmitt Found" and "WWII Airplane and Pilot Found", but just a day later, perhaps looking to boost the number of clicks (and re-posted by lesser-ranked media outlets), the headline had become "Nazi Plane and Pilot Found".

Back to the title of the thread and my previous post, this is the actual ad for the documentary, and personally, when I first saw it, my mind immediately thought of a bunch of Finnish Bf-109's, except with the swastikas tilted:

I'm even more thankful to have a Netflix subscription with this news. Fantastic!

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Exactly what immediately came to my mind as well!