How about your favorite USAAF / USAF movie
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enfield
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12 O'Clock High and 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
GyMac
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"12 OClock High". But there was another good one with Clark Gable as a general fighting for daylight bombing despite terrible losses. I've forgotten the name. Explored the political aspects of war-fighting.
photoman
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Strategic Air Command is the first one that came to mind.
Gutpile Charlie
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12 O'clock High and Strategic Air Command would be at the top of my list also!
deduke1907
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has to be the best
jeffsmith
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I like all those listed
"Test Pilot" with Clark Gable has some rare D model B-17 footage
The Clark Gable movie mentioned was "Command Decision"
"Test Pilot" with Clark Gable has some rare D model B-17 footage
The Clark Gable movie mentioned was "Command Decision"
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On YouTube someone has posted the B-36 takeoff scene from "Strategic Air Command".
bobcat
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"The Right Stuff"
"Memphis Belle" both the documentary & the film
"12 O'Clock High"
"Battle Hymn" great P-51 action
and one about Paul TIbbits I saw, don't know the name, but a good film
"Memphis Belle" both the documentary & the film
"12 O'Clock High"
"Battle Hymn" great P-51 action
and one about Paul TIbbits I saw, don't know the name, but a good film
No Time For Sergeants. Very funny movie.
Evil Dog
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Haven't thought about that one in years !!! What a great movie.
Dr. Strangelove
Failsafe ( Dr Strangelove without the laughs )
Strategic Air Command
Failsafe ( Dr Strangelove without the laughs )
Strategic Air Command
USAF385
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I'm heading over to my Netflix account to see how many of these movies they carry. 
I've got to say.. while they're not "Air Force" movies, I was very pleased to see how big of a role the USAF played in the Transformer movies and Iron Man.
I absolutely love the AC-130 scene in the first Transformers.. just as I remember it.. right down to blasting Decepticons.
I've got to say.. while they're not "Air Force" movies, I was very pleased to see how big of a role the USAF played in the Transformer movies and Iron Man.
I absolutely love the AC-130 scene in the first Transformers.. just as I remember it.. right down to blasting Decepticons.
What is funny is that I bought a DVD of it yesterday at WalMart for $10. My new wife had never seen the movie. She had the biggest laughs at Don Knotts evaluating Stockdale with the metal rings with Sgt King commenting 'he put 'em together!', the Captain telling Sgt King that if Stockdale wasn't classified in a week that King would be a permanent latrine orderly...PLO, and when Stockdale was spitting into the radio and yelling "howdy!" at the army general.
OFT II
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+1. Good footage of an early B-17, maybe a C model.
GatorFarmer
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I'm heading over to my Netflix account to see how many of these movies they carry.
I've got to say.. while they're not "Air Force" movies, I was very pleased to see how big of a role the USAF played in the Transformer movies and Iron Man.
I absolutely love the AC-130 scene in the first Transformers.. just as I remember it.. right down to blasting Decepticons.
The USAF, and not the USMC, were supposed to be the original heroes in "Independence Day". They had agreed to do all sorts of things to help the filming and provide technical support and advice and what not. Only one little problem, the USAF insisted that all references to Area 51 be removed from the film. The producers wouldn't accept that, thus it is F/A18s of the USMC that are prominently featured. Continuing the long tradition (Invaders from Mars remake, original War of the Worlds, Aliens, Independence Day, and the forth coming film about aliens attacking Los Angeles) of the USMC being the first to fight evil space aliens of all types.
Until the Transformers frachise, the USAF hadn't given a good account of itself since Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and my personal favorite USAF film that I can't remember the name of where the USAF fights the giant praying mantis. One of the guys even carries an alloy frame aircrewman revolver in the movie.
Three come to mind. "Twelve O'Clock High", "30 Seconds over Tokyo," and "Memphis Belle" (the movie). An also-ran would be "Pearl Harbor" which, while not exclusively Air Force, had some great segments on the air response to the Japanese attack, and the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. Special effects there were more modern and impressive. The special effects in "30 Seconds" were really great for a 1940s film - quite impressive, in fact.
"Strategic Air Command" was interesting to me mainly for the fact that Jimmy Stewart, a WWII AAF veteran, was in it, and that he in real life became a reserve AF general in addition to his movie career. Never liked June Allyson all that much as his wife in the movie.
"Strategic Air Command" was interesting to me mainly for the fact that Jimmy Stewart, a WWII AAF veteran, was in it, and that he in real life became a reserve AF general in addition to his movie career. Never liked June Allyson all that much as his wife in the movie.
I'll bet not many have ever heard of this one with Bogart as a test pilot:
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GyMac
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That reminds me. "The Thing (From Another World)", the original. How could I have forgotten? One of my favorite movies.
Chris
One of my favorites is a Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner movie called The Hunters. It is about jets in Korea.
Eltioloco
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I Dream of Jeannie
cmort666
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"The Deadly Mantis".
And don't forget "The Thing from Another World" with Kenneth Toby!
How about "The Giant Claw"? I think a USAF B-25 with a cannon in the tail kills the monster.
akviper
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"Jet Pilot", a 1957 film with John Wayne and Janet Leigh. I think it won fifteen or twenty Academy Awards (not). It had great shots of F86s , F89s, and P80s.
"The Right Stuff" is one of my all time favorites.
"The Right Stuff" is one of my all time favorites.
GRIZZLYBEAR
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12 O'clock High...Many years ago the Army sent me to a two week "Company Level Pre-Command' training course. About the only thing I remember clearly from that experience was a civilian instructor who came in and did a full day leadership training session: looked at both formal and informal leadership mechanisms and who follows who and why. I remember it was a really interesting and informative course and he built it all around the movie 12 O'Clock High. We would watch a segment and then discuss who was in charge, what leadership styles or traits were exibited and why they worked or failed to work and what were the needs of the squadran members and how they were or were not met. It was one of those odd things that just stayed with me, and therefore if I had to pick a favorite AF or AAF movie, that would be the one.
GyMac
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This triggered the memory of another great movie. I can't recall the name but it's a WW II training film about a bomber crew shot down over Germany and how the German Interrogators work to gather information from each one of them in turn, and then piece the info together to form intelligence. The moral of the story was, keep your mouth shut. They used many of the same methods that we were taught as Interrogators as Ft Huachuca. We used it as a training film, but it has also been on TV, and I watched it just about a year ago. It had a couple of recognizable actors in it.
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