How about your favorite USAAF / USAF movie

[Kanewpadle]

Pearl Harbor
Call To Glory (Pilot)
SAC

 

[jag312]

It may be a little old, but I always liked Hell's Angels. Howard Hughes outdid himself with the aerial dogfights. However, Stategic Air Command has to be Number 1.

 

[Indycar]

Don't forget "Command Decision" with Clark Gable!
Deals with the Schweinfurt raids and ME262's and Komets.

It goes good as a second feature to "12 O'Clock High".

 

[Papaw]

"The War Lover" with Steve McQueen, another B-17 movie.

Clark Gable served with the Army Air Corp in WWII Europe and flew some combat missions as a gunner on a B-17.

Sure I like B-17s since my Dad flew them in WWII.

 

[mikelain]

Stratigic Air Command for just a USAF movie love those scenes od the B 36 and B 47 awsome take offs and high altitude. Air Force had alot of good footage a far feched story 1 B 17 saved the whole war. 12 o clock high and Command Decision are good.

Catch 22 had some realy good flying of the B 25 crappy story line though.

Thr Right Stuff is great but more than the Air Force.

 

[bobsdad]

How about "The Bridges of Toko-Ri"? Remember Mickey Rooney in that crazy hat and that 50's vintage rescue chopper. Included actual gun camera stuff from Korea, if I'm not mistaken.

+ Not U.S., but the dog fight scenes in the movie "Battle of Britain" were great.

 

[Chromedhearts]

I've read all of this hoping I would see the name of a movie, I remember seeing as a kid.
I can't remember the name but it was about a WW2 pilot who accidentally bombed an orphanage, killing kids.
After the war he becomes a minister, then is recalled to duty for the Korean War. It is one of the best war movies I remember seeing, hands down.
Any help here?

 

[borntoraisehogs]

12 O'Clock High and 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

You nailed it . It wasn't an Air Corp Movie " Empire of the Sun" . The scene of the Mustangs popping the Zeros , wrecking the airfield , and then going to slow motion as the pilot makes a low pass , canopy back , waving to the POW child , as if to say help is here , the Americans are fighting for you , is as emotionally powerful as anything I have ever seen in a movie .
P-51 , Cadillac of the skies
YouTube - Empire of the Sun - Attack on the Camp

 

[gettysburg]

I'll start with:
12 O clock High
Memphis Belle
Strategic Air Command

LTC

I remember back in junior high being out at a good buddy's house, his grandfather (living right next door) being a WW11 vet had an old freind visiting. My bud tells me his GF's freind was the navigator on the real Memphis Bell. I recalled hearing about the movie but thought nothing of it. Now that I'm older I realize how fortunate I was to meet that outstanding veteran.
Just my 2cents. This movie might be more Navy than USAF, but I always liked The Final Countdown.

 

[Thunderhawk88]

I've read all of this hoping I would see the name of a movie, I remember seeing as a kid.
I can't remember the name but it was about a WW2 pilot who accidentally bombed an orphanage, killing kids.
After the war he becomes a minister, then is recalled to duty for the Korean War. It is one of the best war movies I remember seeing, hands down.
Any help here?

Battle Hymn, with Rock Hudson. Based on a true story.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

On YouTube someone has posted the dogfight sequence from "The Korea Story" episode of "Steve Canyon".

 

[Sistema1927]

Anything with Jimmy Stewart.