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- From: rocky.rawlins@the-matrix.com (Rocky Rawlins)
- Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
- Subject: RE: B-25'S ON CARRIERS WA
- Message-ID: <1341.417.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:12:00 GMT
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- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: rocky.rawlins@the-matrix.com (Rocky Rawlins)
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- -> This sounds like the film "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" with Van
- -> Johnson in the starring role and Spencer Tracy playing Jimmy
- -> Doolittle. Seemed to be relatively factual up until the point of the
- -> dropping of the bombs. Then things get pretty Hollywood as a lot
- -> more explosions occurred than what would have been occurring
- -> considering what was being dropped (mostly incendiaries).
- -> Interestingly, during the filming, the
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- Yes, I do remember that. I was surprised and amused at how a dozen B-25
- managed to level Tokyo with a small handful of light bombs. Shows just
- how shabby Japanese construction was. Must have been some of those "John
- Wayne" bombs. <grin>
- Rocky
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