30 Dec Air Force
Air Force, WW II Movie starring John Garfield
(1943) It is December 6, 1941. The crew of a B-17 leaves San Francisco on a routine unarmed flight to Hawaii. En route, they are puzzled to hear Japanese voices over the radio. What!
They land with some difficulty in the devastation just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I watched the movie trying to put myself in the mood of the audience that was watching it then. There was obvious anti-Japanese sentiment. At one point they are shot at by what they describe as local Japanese who lived on the island, and I have read that this never actually happened.
It was good to watch the crew on the B-17 (an earlier version than the one Herman flew in) as they flew, fought and repaired “The Mary Ann.”
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