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Originally Posted by ElAurens
Anyone who has the slightest knowledge of WW2 aviation knew this movie was going to be bad, on many levels.
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Correct. I live in Vegas and wish they would have taken wagers on Redtails being Crap.
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And just for the sake of historical accuracy...
The 99th. lost 25 B17s that they were escorting, they did not have a perfect record in this regard, unlike the mythology that has built up around them.
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Correct. The myth that "they never lost an escorted Bomber" lasted for six decades...Still, I was surprised that the trailer for Redtails didn't repeat that myth.
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Just once I'd like to see a film about WW2 aviation that was as good as Das Boot, and I don't really care which side it would be about.
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See the Czech movie "Dark Blue World" about Czechs in RAF in BoB.