Speaking of the Douglas Dauntless...
The film (by John Ford) can be seen in its entirety here, complete with martial music and righteous propaganda. Also featured are B17's, Catalina's, lots of Zero's getting shot down and some of what I take to be USMC Vindicator.'s
Huzzah for the USMC eh Brando!?
2 comments:
Watching that stuff is so weird. I'm torn between the twin concepts of it seeming like legendary, over-the-top violence; and the actual men fighting and dying. The reality of it. It's awesome and terrible all at once. The scale of it boggles the mind.
I like to think I'm pretty hard, but I feel humbled when I watch stuff like that.
Today we had our Memorial Day, and I thought it was pretty cool that the speaker mentioned the Battle of Somme, even though the US wasn't even in it.
I know what you mean. There is a strange fascination with war that must be tempered with a cool dispassionate mind. Its all to easy to see war aesthetically.
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