Looks like I need to watch “By Dawn’s Early Light” again. Came out in 1990. Powers Booth and James Earl Jones and Martin Landau. Awesome movie.
I love that movie. I always think of it when I see the E-4’s flying around town (they are stationed at Offutt AFB which is about 12 miles straight east of my house). It reminds me of the scene at the end where they get rid of crazy Darren McGavin.
The comment about the low flying B-52s reminded me of seeing them flying at low levels near a lake/recreation area we used to go to that was near the town where I went to juco. They flew over so low you could see the pilots in the cockpit. Wow was that impressive. One of the hangers out at Offutt (I go to the airshow out there every year) had a great saying painted on the side: “Global peace through strength”. That is what those planes remind me of. That is what I like to see my tax dollars going towards.
As a former B-52 crew member who sat alert for three years, I consider it a really stupid movie.