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To: VanDeKoik

Ugh, that awful TV show with that midget Robert Conrad and wrong late vintage F4U’s with 4 bladed props.

And then Japanese and American pilots would taunt each other over the radio.

Japanese aircraft radios were so poor they typically couldn’t even contact their bases much less talk to Americans on a different frequency.


25 posted on 02/08/2018 8:41:35 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

>>>Ugh, that awful TV show with that midget Robert Conrad and wrong late vintage F4U’s with 4 bladed props<<

If I recall, the ones used on the Show were the only operational Flying examples of the F4U at the time.

Of course the Flying scenes used stock footage.


29 posted on 02/08/2018 8:49:11 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Tweet softly, but carry a big stick.)
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To: Snickering Hound

LOL! I was also wondering why one of the guys wore a modern NFL jersey top myself.


31 posted on 02/08/2018 8:49:24 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Snickering Hound
Ugh, that awful TV show with that midget Robert Conrad...

Yeah, but the nurses were hot - and the chief mechanic character (actor Red West) was always entertaining. He probably had more in common with the real Greg Boyington (in terms of hard living) than anyone else in the cast.

34 posted on 02/08/2018 8:58:11 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Snickering Hound
And then Japanese and American pilots would taunt each other over the radio.

If you read his book you would know that it was true
43 posted on 02/08/2018 9:21:59 AM PST by uncbob
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