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Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:32 pm
by OldBillB17F
Opening scene. Lot's of B-17E action in this flick. You can watch the entire movie on YouTube. A formation of five (5) B-17Es fly throughout the movie. I've successfully picked out four serial numbers.I have another wartime photo of this bird. More B-17E serials to follow.
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:34 pm
by OldBillB17F
B-17E 41-9137
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:37 pm
by OldBillB17F
B-17E 41-9152
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:39 pm
by OldBillB17F
41-9117
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:43 pm
by OldBillB17F
Unknown. Any takes?
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:45 pm
by OldBillB17F
Alas...another wartime shot of 41-2594. McDill maybe?
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:47 am
by Steve Birdsall
Those are really nice stills.
As I think I've mentioned elsewhere, the 19th Bomb Group at Pyote provided four aircraft and crews for that production, one from each squadron.
41-2594 1/Lt Walter Nyblade, 28th Bomb Squadron
41-2669 1/Lt Milton E. Moore, 30th Bomb Squadron
41-2438 Capt Kenneth D. Casper, 93rd Bomb Squadron
41-9180 1/Lt Roderick M. Stewart, 435th Bomb Squadron
As far as I know 41-2438 and 41-2669 were the only combat veterans in the film.
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:23 pm
by Dan Johnson
To follow up on Steve's post in the small world department. I bought a wartime printed copy of "Queens Die Proudly" by W.L White. Much to my surprise the following inscription was in the book. It made the book that much more special.
Looks like he flew in the movie
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 5:25 pm
by Chris Brame
I notice 41-2594 didn't have a ball turret in the earlier photo - was there a shortage early on? It has one in the movie.
I recorded this movie as well, in HD, and I'll try to see if I can pull some sharp stills of the Forts, plus the B-18As (there are at least three; 38-596 in camo and two others in bare metal; might be able to get a serial off one of them going frame by frame) and B-23 39-24 (which I've never seen a photo anywhere else).
Re: Desert Rat's brother in the movie "Bombardier" (1943)
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 12:03 pm
by Chris Brame
Chris Brame wrote:I'll try to see if I can pull some sharp stills of the Forts, plus the B-18As (there are at least three; 38-596 in camo and two others in bare metal; might be able to get a serial off one of them going frame by frame) and B-23 39-24 (which I've never seen a photo anywhere else).
Couldn't download from the DVR, so I took stills of the TV screen.
B-18A 38-588 (most likely; 588 was at Kirtland and 38-589 was back east when this was filmed):
B-23 39-34 (only image of this one I've seen):
I saved these since they were blink-and-you-miss-it; there was only one readable frame of the B-18.
