My Air Combat movies list - additions are welcome

[--RvB--]

And what about the classical ones?
Like: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944).
-RvB-

[fsbofk]

... or "The Fighting Lady" (1944) - can't beat that for color footage of carriers, Hellcats, Turkeys, and Beasts.

[Y Andersson]

Here are the movies and documentarys that I have in my collection.

Första Divisionen
Gula Divisionen
The Great Waldo Pepper
Blue Max
Aces High
633 Squadron ( Mosquito)
Mosquito Squadron
A Yank in the RAF
Dark Blue World (Spitfire)
Battle of Britain
Memphis Belle (B-17 Flying Fortress)
War Lover)(B-17 Flying Fortress)
Twelve O´Clock High (B-17 Flying Fortress)
We´ll Meet Again (B-17 Flying Fortress)
The Flying Tigers
The Flying Leathernecks
Fighter Squadron, 1948 (P-47)
Target For Today
US Army Air Force Report
Target for Tonight
God is my Co-pilot (P-40)
Thunderbolt (P-47)
The Air Force Story, Vol One
The Fight For The Sky
Mission Accomplished
Smashing of the Reich.
Catch 22 (B-25 Mitchell)
Tora, Tora, Tora
Pearl Harbor
Midway
A Wing and A Prayer
Memphis Belle, 1945
Combat America
The Battle of Britain (Frank Capra)
China Crisis (Flying Tigers 1945)
Kamikaze
Bridges at Toko-Ri (Korean War)
Flight of the Intruder
Top Gun
The Final Countdown

[George Hopp]

It has been said that "Top Gun" would have been a really great movie if they had cut out all the non-flying scenes.

[kaki3152]

English:

"The Sea Shall not Have Them" a great movie about the RAF ASR service. Great shots of a Walrus flying around, along with an ASR LAunch.

"The Purple Plains" Mosquitos in Burma..

and as far as B-36s "Strategic Air Command"

Carlos

[->saXon]

'Reach for The Sky'

The epic story of the RAF Ace Douglas Bader, not so much air combat but still a great B/W flick of ol' tin legs!

I don't think it has been mentioned in previous post's.

[david Cotton]

Hello all,
Dont forget Angals one five, a real Brit flick...... Septic calling, Septic calling.
The final shot of the cotage at the end of the runway is just classic. Stirring stuff... I can fill me top lip a Stiffening as I type.

Reach for the sky is a fine film, but the use of bubble canopy spits is a bit off putting. I think Bader also downs a FW190 during the Battle of Britain. Still, his determination and resove come over well.

633 Squadron is another of those great films. I think it is the music that lifts above the normal mosquito squadron type films.

Regards
David

[Franz von Werra]

Thirteen days - U2 shots are great, but the F-8F scene (with real Crusaders!!) is magical and shows the uncanny courage of pilots who faced "birds" (hits from AA) only armed with cameras. For all those who think that recce is an uneventful rear-echelon job...

[Mark Beaumont]

Ok it may not be a film, it is a series but for me- Piece of Cake has some of the best flight scenes containing WW2 planes ever. The Heinkel 111 is also real, as are the two Me 109's (although the Spanish version with British built engines produced after WW2) and the Spitfires (though historically inaccurate) range from Mk1 to Mk 1X versions. There is also a scene where a Spitfire is flown under a tiny bridge by one of the Hanna family and it is just superb, as well as scenes of 109's and Spitfires dogfighting over the white cliffs of Dover!

[Klaus Schiffler]

The Blue Max is one of my favorite war movies. The replica Pfalz D. IIIa is particularly convincing except the wooden fuselage which was never covered with the lozenge fabric. The two Fokker Dr. I triplanes would also never have had the lozenge fabric. I assume the monoplane at the last part of the movie was supposed to represent the Fokker D. VIII. I never read the book but looked at it in a book store and I seem to remember that Hermann Göring was a part of the plot.