On Wed, 23 May 2012 01:02:01 -0400, clairbear wrote
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Savageduck wrote in
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On 2012-05-22 19:58:27 -0700, clairbear said:

Just curious if it is worth adding to my Bluray/DVD collection

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I have only read some of the reviews and some other feed back, and what
I get is this movie does not do the Tuskegee Airmen justice. It seems
there is a lot of CGI effects and an over the top story line.

The 1995 PBS DVD "The Tuskegee Airmen" with Andre Braugher as Gen.
Benjamin O. Davis, Laurence Fishburne, and Cuba Gooding Jr. is
marginally better.


It did get kind of mixed reviews I don't think it was seen by a lot of
peopleI wonder if some of the reviewers expected more Historical movies
rarely hit the mark for accuracy

It wasn't particularly accurate.

It didn't mention some of the truly magnificent things that the 322nd FG did,
including being the first and until Desert Storm the only aerial unit to
receive a surrender from ground forces. The film also screwed up on a factual
basis: the bombers they escorted in the film were all B-17s; in real life,
four of the five heavy bomb groups they were responsible for covering flew
B-24s. The mission to Berlin wasn't the longest-range escort mission of the
war. It wasn't even the longest range mission in Europe. The 322nd _did_ lose
bombers to enemy fighters... just not very many, 26 in total, including three
on that mission to Berlin. The next lowest total was more than double the
losses that the 322nd allowed. They were very, very, VERY good, they just
weren't perfect. The 322nd were not the first to shoot down Me-262s; the
first Allied fighters to kill Me-262s were Canadian. Tempests, I think, but I
could be wrong about that. The 322nd _were_ the ones who got the _most_
Me-262s in one action, and at the lowest losses: they got four, for the loss
of five P-51s and a B-24, on that flight to Berlin.

The film-makers Hollywooded it up something awesome. Frankly, I thought that
it was insulting.

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