“After a weeks long journey of 100 miles skirting the Chna coast the crew was picked up by an American plane”
WOW! Now that is the other half of their story and a movie that was never made.
WOW! Now that is the other half of their story and a movie that was never made.
Actually, this half of the story was told as part of a movie plot --in 1944.
The movie was 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" starring Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Don Defore and a very young, Robert Mitchum.
Van Johnson's character in the movie (Ted Lawson) looks like it was based on what happened to Edward Saylor.