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"The Best Years Of Our Lives" (1946) aircraft graveyard scene
Youtube ^ | 01/01/2016 | Boeing B-17 Resource

Posted on 03/16/2024 6:13:21 PM PDT by simpson96

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1 posted on 03/16/2024 6:13:21 PM PDT by simpson96
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An excellent film


2 posted on 03/16/2024 6:24:55 PM PDT by abigkahuna
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I wonder where the airport graveyard scene was filmed? Kingman,Az?


3 posted on 03/16/2024 6:27:26 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: simpson96

As a teen, I heard a WW II B-17 mechanic with the Eighth Air Force in England tell of removing an unexploded German anti-aircraft rocket from the wing of a B-17. With repairs, the B-17 returned to service. A year later, back in the states after the end of the war, he saw the same bomber as one of hundreds in a field waiting to be broken up.


4 posted on 03/16/2024 6:28:34 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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My favorite all time film.
5 posted on 03/16/2024 6:28:45 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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All 3 men—no matter their station in civilin life—had a shared experience in the war. Despite the fact they were in three different branches and different theaters—the general experiences of servicemen were similiar—as it was for all us service memmbers .


6 posted on 03/16/2024 6:36:37 PM PDT by abigkahuna
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That was a good movie. The guy on the left (in the picture) was the one that actually lost both his arms in the war.


7 posted on 03/16/2024 6:38:02 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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I need to give this film another shot. My previous experience with it was not good.


8 posted on 03/16/2024 6:38:03 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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A side note about the crack from the junkman about “you guys up there in the air, while I was stuck down in the muck in a tank” ... it was safer to be a marine on Iwo Jima than it was to be a B-17 crewman.


9 posted on 03/16/2024 6:38:28 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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The best Post WWII drama made.


10 posted on 03/16/2024 6:44:50 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: simpson96

As I look around at what has become of our country, I weep for those fine Americans of that generation.


11 posted on 03/16/2024 6:50:06 PM PDT by AFret. (.)
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Actually, I don’t think he did lose his hands in the war. I think he lost them in a farming machinery accident, but his role in that movie was groundbreaking, I believe.


12 posted on 03/16/2024 6:54:56 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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Actually he did loose his hands in wartime. He was a demolition instructor when a fuse ignited and set some tnt off.


13 posted on 03/16/2024 7:00:43 PM PDT by abigkahuna
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To: simpson96

One of my all time faves

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14 posted on 03/16/2024 7:01:09 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DuncanWaring

yeah, but safer, and miserable, are two different things...


15 posted on 03/16/2024 7:19:27 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Great scene from a great movie. Loved that the Dana Andrews character’s mother was named Hortense.


16 posted on 03/16/2024 7:22:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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... it was safer to be a marine on Iwo Jima than it was to be a B-17 crewman.

The Eighth Air Force took terrible losses. The first raid on Schweinfurt it lost over one half of its aircraft and crews.

17 posted on 03/16/2024 7:25:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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The airplane graveyard was in the either Pomona or Ontario area.


18 posted on 03/16/2024 7:26:12 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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I was under the impression Hortense was his stepmother. He called her Hortense. He called his father Pops.


19 posted on 03/16/2024 7:28:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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I think you’re right! You don’t get away with anything on FR lol!


20 posted on 03/16/2024 7:30:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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