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Ken · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:28 am

Highlights of the story of Bong, McGuire, MacDonald and Lindbergh, P-38's in the Pacific.

Ken

phil65 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:01 pm

The planning and shooting down of Admiral Yamamoto..

Phil

Warbirdnutta · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2022 4:16 pm

Battle of Britain shot at Duxford over the white cliffs and in France,
sadly no German bombers, so make it from a fighters point of view?

Quite a few early Spitfires exist these days, take the cannons off Mk
Vs and they look like early jobs. Quite a few Hurricanes and yes I
know Buchons will have to stand in for the enemy, there are even
a few of these in the UK and Europe.

jdeters79 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:20 pm **Posts:** 149

The story of the crash and rescue of the three survivors of the C-47 "The Gremlin Special" in New Guinea. Mitchell Zuckoff's book Lost in Shangri-La was a great read. I always thought this story would make a great film.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7817

I'm looking for a good PBY story. Perhaps in the Aleutians?

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:16 pm

"Lady Be Good". Verbatim. No Hollywood BS.

Saville · **Joined:** Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:45 am **Posts:** 518

For some time, Ridley Scott was planning a new Battle of Britain movie. But it seems to have dropped off the radar.

wendovertom · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:15 am

Mark Allen M wrote:

I'm looking for a good PBY story. Perhaps in the Aleutians?

Mark, have you read "Lost in the Pacific: Epic Firsthand accounts of WWII Survival Against Impossible Odds" ?

It is a collection of stories edited by L Douglas Keeney - he was doing research for the Navy and and collected these stories - there is a great deal of PBY rescues in it!

Tom P.

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2022 1:07 pm

wendovertom wrote:

Mark, have you read "Lost in the Pacific: Epic Firsthand accounts of WWII Survival Against Impossible Odds" ?

It is a collection of stories edited by L Douglas Keeney - he was doing research for the Navy and and collected these stories - there is a great deal of PBY rescues in it!

Tom P.

That is a good book. I can't imagine how hard and how gutting it must have been to be a air-sea rescue pilot in those days, looking for needles in fields of haystacks and knowing you weren't gonna find them all.

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:08 am

"The Phantom P-40 from Mindanao"
https://www.outono.net/elentir/2022/05/ ... ld-war-ii/

aerojock · **Joined:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:58 am **Posts:** 148

Might not fit the historically accurate part but how about "The Last Dogfight".

Kyleb · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2022 4:13 pm

How about Rickenbacker's adventure in the life raft?

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