Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan film
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tdm34 said:
Elroy Blue said:
nicanary said:
Empire of the Sun? 29 years ago.......
I suddenly feel old. Cracking film though. Elroy Blue said:
Mustangs were flying over Japan on a regular basis at the end of the war. Once they captured the islands around Japan, the mainland was in range. Long missions with a single engine. I bet they listened for every unusual noise.
Although the prison camps in "Empire of the Sun" were in China - near Shanghai.Although they used P-51s in the film, at the time it would just as likely have been P-40s as they were used a lot in the Far East by the USAAF.
My great uncle was a professional soldier before the war in the Lancashire Fusiliers and had been posted to China amongst other places. He was part of the BEF and the family received official notice that he was missing following the retreat to Dunkirk. He did manage to make it back somehow and would later fight in North Africa and Italy. Having gone through all that and surviving the war, he died in his early 40s from complications following a gall bladder operation. 
nicanary said:
Just wondering - where would those P51s have been based? Surely any fighter would have been flown off a carrier? Or did Mustangs fly from Chinese bases further inland?
They were operating within China. The raid depicted was flown from Suichwan airfield by the 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, which still exists and is part of the Connecticut National Guard. At the time they were part of the 23rd Fighter Group (the famous "Flying Tigers"), 14th Air Force, which operated in India and China in support of the Chinese fight against the Japanese.
Eric Mc said:
Although the prison camps in "Empire of the Sun" were in China - near Shanghai.
Although they used P-51s in the film, at the time it would just as likely have been P-40s as they were used a lot in the Far East by the USAAF.
Good point well made. It's been such a long time since I've seen the film. In fact I feel the need to seek it outAlthough they used P-51s in the film, at the time it would just as likely have been P-40s as they were used a lot in the Far East by the USAAF.
Incidentally, Dame Vera Lynn is still hanging on in there I'm happy to say. She's 99 now.
Also 99 is Empire of the Sun director Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold. During the war he was a radio operator / gunner on B-25 Mitchell aircraft based in the China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations. An interesting man in his own right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg
Also 99 is Empire of the Sun director Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold. During the war he was a radio operator / gunner on B-25 Mitchell aircraft based in the China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations. An interesting man in his own right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg
Edited by Beati Dogu on Sunday 7th August 23:56
Shakermaker said:
They had a teaser for this ahead of Suicide Squad, just a minute or so long, a load of soldiers on a landing craft, and then they all look up as you hear the noise of an aircraft coming towards them at high speed.
That sounds like part of the trailer. They're actually standing on one of the "moles" otherwise know as jetties, and the aircraft are Stukas which are aboout to sink the destroyer which they were planning to board.My (adult) daughter watched the trailer and asked me what the dead whales were doing on the beach. The "whales" were dead soldiers covered in their greatcoats.
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