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Robert L Scott who wrote "God is my co-pilot" was the Base Commander
where I was stationed.

One night at the club a drunken Ace from WWII cornered him and gave
him a hard time about writing the book and what it contained.

Scott's reply was:

quote

"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

End of quote and end of discussion.

Big John


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:55:36 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:


I recently saw "Flying Tigers" (John Wayne) and was not impressed. Too
much talking, not enough flying.

Too much bullfeathers, not enough history.

There was absolutely nothing in the film remotely connected to reality
except for the shots (evidently taken from Japanese footage) of the
NAH-KAH-JEEM-AH fighters.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Big John" wrote in message
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Robert L Scott who wrote "God is my co-pilot" was the Base Commander
where I was stationed.

One night at the club a drunken Ace from WWII cornered him and gave
him a hard time about writing the book and what it contained.

Scott's reply was:

quote

"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

End of quote and end of discussion.

Big John

Tell you how GIMCP was written BJ. Bob was approached by Charlie Scribner.
Scribner told Bob he had a great story to tell and handed Scotty a bunch of
those cylinder things for the talking machines and locked Bob in a room at
the Waldorf in New York. Bob wrote the whole damn story in one weekend
locked in that room! Then Jack Warner got in on it and the rest is history.
A funny aside to all this is that Warner Bros hired Richard Loo, the great
Asian actor to do the Tokyo Joe "ace" part in the picture and Bob has spent
the rest of his life on the lecture circuit telling people that he didn't
ACTUALLY shoot down Tokyo Joe!! :-))
Dudley

Tell you how GIMCP was written BJ. Bob was approached by Charlie Scribner.
Scribner told Bob he had a great story to tell and handed Scotty a bunch of
those cylinder things for the talking machines and locked Bob in a room at
the Waldorf in New York. Bob wrote the whole damn story in one weekend
locked in that room! Then Jack Warner got in on it and the rest is history.
A funny aside to all this is that Warner Bros hired Richard Loo, the great
Asian actor to do the Tokyo Joe "ace" part in the picture and Bob has spent
the rest of his life on the lecture circuit telling people that he didn't
ACTUALLY shoot down Tokyo Joe!! :-))
Dudley



Sadly, it seems that much of the average American's knowledge of history
is gained via the silver screen. Ever since I was 10 or 11 and saw a
blatant historical error in a movie, it's ****ed me off when I think
that someone got paid mega bucks to create an enduring version of
history that any literate person would know is false.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino

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"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

Seems to me, that pretty much proved the drunk's point.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

Seems to me, that pretty much proved the drunk's point.

all the best -- Dan Ford

No it wouldn't!

I hate to see someone who has supposedly done a ton of research on these
things make such an assumption, and I will try to rectify this "expert"
opinion if I may. Feel free to counter my point if you like.

Scott's book was accurate. It was Jack Warner who changed things around to
make the movie more "interesting", and Scott had no say in the final. But my
point just begins here. Even the movie, although containing characters
inserted in the screenplay for interest, was accurate on Scott. There was no
misrepresentation of his kills, his time in China, and most importantly, no
reference to him making claim to AVG membership. The one reference that
could be made to such a claim was not done by Scott, but by an advertising
agency for Warner Bros on a poster pushing the movie. Scott had absolutely
no control over this and couldn't have stopped it had he known about it.
Through time, there were several members of the Tigers who faulted Scott on
the story based on the false assumption that Bob had portrayed himself as
one of the Tigers which of course he had not done at all. No where in his
book does he claim to have been a member of the Tigers. Warner Bros. made
this parity and totally confused the issue. Scotty has been falsely accused
for years of making the association with the Tigers and he had absolutely
nothing to do with it. George Burgard wouldn't even speak Bob's name he
disliked him so much.
When Charlie Scribner cornered Bob and asked him to write a book about his
experiences in China, Bob agreed, and he wrote a great story. He had every
reason to believe that Warner Bros would treat the story as he had written
it. At the time, Scott was not nearly the experienced writer he later
became. He hadn't learned yet how the money men in Hollywood embellish and
twist things around to make them more "salable".
Anyone who knows anything at all about Bob Scott knows that he's a totally
honest man who would never misrepresent himself to anyone. So you're wrong!
The drunk was out of line....and he didn't have all the facts.
Bob Scott was one of the charter members of the IFPF. In over thirty years,
he has never misrepresented himself or anything that he did in China to me
or to anyone else I know...and I know a lot of these people! People known to
me personally who would also agree that the drunk was way out of line would
be the Rossi's, Eric Shilling, and Anna Chennault.
You know Mr. Ford, you have a way of trying to make people appear less than
they really are. It's sad! After writing what you consider a major work on
the Tigers, it's a shame that all you would have to say about General Scott
is what you posted here. I respectfully suggest you do some additional
research on General Scott.

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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