Red Tails
 

From the last plane, to the last bullet, to the last minute, to the last man, we fight!

Aside from the melodramatic Hollywood retooling, a part of our history that gives me a lump in my throat every time I think about it.

Truly a display of the best our citizens are capable of.

Agreed! And from what I understand....not a single B-17 was lost when being escorted by the Red Tails. Simply amazing.




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I was fortunate enough to talk to one of the Tuskegee Airmen at a local airshow some years back. Truly a humbling experience.

Very cool. Glad to see Hollywood portraying a part of our history we should never forget!

There's a mid 90's movie with Lawrence Fishburn and Andre Braugher called The Tuskegee Airmen. Was a made for HBO movie.

Am I the only one who thinks the CG looks like a Pixar movie?

Aviation needs another "Top Gun" to reignite the spark in kids. Maybe this could do it. Can't wait to see it.

This movie, like any movie about aviation from that era, makes me wish I was born in the early 1920's.

While waiting for Jan. 20, 2012, to see this movie, pick up Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography; "I could never be so lucky again".

The guy was nuts, by today's standards, but he came up with the first ideas for instrument flying, and a radio altimeter, as well as lots of other stuff we take for granted every day at work today. Oh, and he drank, smoked and did stuff that CNN would have a lot of fun with in today's Politically Correct world. A great aviation history read if you can find it. I wish someone would make that book into a movie.

Amazon.com: I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (9780553584646): James Doolittle, Carroll V. Glines: Books