This stuff sounds great! One of these days, I'll crawl out of the stone age and get a cable or DSL connection so I can enjoy this kind of thing. All I need is the money.... :-)
Good flying, Bob Scott
Hello All --
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> You are cordially invited to drop by Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In
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and catch our latest free online World War II
> aviation triple feature: "The Fight For the Sky," "Thunderbolt!"and "Black
> Cat PBY." That's over an hour and a half of WW2 winged bliss.
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> "Fight For the Sky." In February of 1944, General Jimmy Doolittle "turned
> loose" his fighters to go after the Luftwaffe where they lived. This marked
> a radical change in strategy from the disastrous tactics of 1943 that kept
> escorting fighters chained to bombers. Now, US fighters, including the P-51,
> probed deep into Germany, catching the opposition on the ground, inflicting
> mortal damage. This feature combines thrilling combat footage filmed by 8th
> Air Force combat cameramen with some of the most action packed, down and
> dirty World War II gun camera film you'll ever see. This is the original,
> uncut 40-minute version of "The Fight for the Sky" featuring twice the rock
> 'em sock 'em action of the heavily edited postwar release previously shown
> at the Drive-In.
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> "Black Cat PBY." What was that mysterious plane swooping down out of the
> night sky on unsuspecting Japanese ships and bases, hundreds of miles from
> any known American airstrip? The answer was, as you'll see in this good
> humored, affectionate film, the slow, ungainly, but deadly "Black Cat" PBY.
> Originally designed as a reconnaissance and antisubmarine amphibious patrol
> plane, the big twin engine Catalina's super long range, all weather
> capability, capacity to lug both bombs and radar, ability to loiter for
> hours hunting convoys and operate from anywhere in the watery PTO, made it
> an ideal naval night attack bomber. One of the least known stories of the
> war in the Pacific, these black painted PBY "VPB" squadrons spread
> destruction and chaos far out of proportion to their relatively small
> numbers. As this film shows, night ops were very risky, but the rewards
> could be huge, including the sinking of a 6,000 ton Katori class light
> cruiser by Lt. William B Sumpler, of VPB-33, for which he was awarded the > Navy Cross.
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> "Thunderbolt" This exciting film chronicles the exploits of the P-47
> Thunderbolt pilots of the "Fighting Gamecocks" of the 65th Fighter squadron,
> 57th Fighter Group. Based on the island of Corsica off the northwest coast
> of the Italian boot, they flew from behind the enemy's flank. As part of
> "Operation Strangle," they continuously attacked highways, bridges, ammo
> dumps, railroads and just about anything that moved to choke off the flow of
> supplies to the Axis front line. This film not only features one-of-a-kind
> P-47 combat footage, it also shows day-to-day life on a MTO forward air
> base, including vintage pilot slang.
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> If you haven't stopped by Zeno's Drive-In before, we also feature 1942-45
> vintage WWII Army & Navy films on how to fly the F4U, F6F, P-38, P-39, P-40,
> P-47, P-51, P-61, TBF/TBM, B-17, B-24, B-25, A-20, A-26, B-26, B-29, and
> more.We just added the SNJ/AT-6 "Harvard" trainer too.
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> That's over 12 hours of rockin' props *all for free viewing over the
> internet.* See detailed charts,diagrams, and interior photos from original
> WWII pilot's manuals too. And, in answer to repeated requests from our fans,
> many of our videos are now available on home DVD at our video store,
> including full pilot's manuals for aircraft.
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> Finally, our "Control Tower" page has the largest collection of World War II
> Aviation links on the 'net
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> So drop your flaps & drop in!
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