J.J. O'Shea wrote in
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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.


in a two hour movie they cannot cover everything and when you make a
drama abou heroes sometimes you do gild the lily a bit But you wanna
talk a history movie that was an insult what about "peral Harbor" About
the only thing in that movie that was accurate was that is was the
japanese who did attack Peral Harbor