I’m afraid to watch the Tuskegee Airmen portrail in public...I fear inaccuracies that I would have to respond to. I’ll PM you in the morn.
I’d be interested to know what some of the common innacuracies are. I can’t say I know enough of the details to respond to them.
The Red Tails movie was definitely historical fiction, not documentary. The plot was about a specific group of fictional flyers who happened to be Tuskegee Airmen, but but the Tuskegee Airmen as a whole were secondary.
The aerial combat scenes were spectaculaer to watch, but they were very sanitized. The Captain starts losing it over a couple of KIAs. A few bombers are shot down, but in historical accounts we normally hear about massive attrition rates for bomber uinits. The Red Tail kill to loss rates were unrealistice.
Despite the flaws, and I don’t know that they were really flaws, the movie was very good.
I know this rthread is supposed to be about Phantom Menace, but I’d rather talk about anything else.