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Hi all,

From the Class book for bombardier class 43-12 at Victorville Army Air Field, Victorville, California found at aafcollectection.com these Forts dress up like Lancasters.





42-30077 is a Fort from the B-17 transition school at Hobbs AAfd which is also AAF West Coast Training Center field.

And again Hollywood has a night time flight line scene for there is no way you are going to make Victorville look like “somewhere in England” during the day!

But casting Humphrey Bogart as an Frenchman, some suspension of reality there.

All the best to you all

Tom

That's a good movie if anyone cares to see it.
Typical patriotic movie of the times, they used some model planes in the attack of the freighter with the real B-17's near the end.

In the movie, at the very beginning they specifically say they are Fortresses as the C.O. is talking to a reporter.

IIRC, the call sign of Bogart's Fortress, which was was a waist gunner was "V4-V" - V Four Victor -- short for "V for Victory"

It is a good movie, well worth two hours of your time.