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Thread #34997   Message #476265
Posted By: Spud Murphy
04-Jun-01 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: Further thoughts on Pearl Harbour
Subject: RE: Further thoughts on Pearl Harbour
That's nice. I was beginning to wonder.

re: Pearl Harbor (If that's still the topic) You don't fly a P-40 below the roof tops and you sure as Hell don't put one (or even a Mitsubishi A 6M) in a 90 degree bank forty feet off the ground and continue to live. Computer graphics and symphonic cacophony in lieu of cinematic quality seem to please those drawn to Star Wars and other fantasies but they have no place in historic settings that reflect on the heroic actions of a past generation. And if the romance was intended to sustain an otherwise hopeless and useless waste of time money and effort, it also was bogus. If a boy of that era ever kissed a girl in the fashion that is commonly portrayed in today's movies, and was graphically demonstrated in this piece of trash, he most likely would have got his face slapped. Mouths were thought to be made for kissing and talking, not conjuring up images of oral copulation.

George R. MacClanahan Fox Company 2nd Raider Battalion FMF, Pacific, USMC

Battle of Midway June 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal (Long Patrol) November 1942

PS Little Hawk: I built a one-fifth scale RC P-40 78" wingspan Powered with an OS-70 and powered it in from about 300 feet as a result of loss of control in a dogfight with an RC Spitfire. Just goes to show you. Those damn limeys did know what they were doing, even when that Rolls Royce was built by Packard and stuffed in a P-51.

Spud