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I was a lowly Sp. 5 inthe 244th Avn Vo stationed on Can Tho airfield, 6/69 -6/70. Prior to the Cambodian invasion in 70, pilots volunteered for photo missions in Cambodia; they flew single seat with the instructions that if they were shot down or otherwise ditched, they had to get themselves out as no one was coming in with a Jolly Green Gian or any equivalent. So, I would wonder whether anone else ws flying missiones as a FAC over Cambodia, as that was the end of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the North was not likely to want anyone poking their nose into operations. Then, again, if he was Air Force - who knows. On a rare occasion I would be tasked with driving down to Bien Thuy; and always tried to time it close to lunch as the AF had WAY better chow than Army. Alas, Laos fell, Cambodia fell, and Thailand almost fell, proving the Domino theory to be factual.

You seem to be able to ferret out information really well. I just found out that my father was a "high speed" FAC, a "Stormy" pilot in the F-4. However I can find nothing about Stormy missions on the internet. Any suggestions on where to dig? He died in 1977, and I don't know how to contact anyone who might have flown with him. Dave

Dick Brian was a pilot training classmate of mine. Great story.

Enjoyed video. I flew O-1 BirdDog out of Long Xuyen about 30 miles upriver from Binh Thuy. My mission was to support Special Forces and VN along Cambodian border in 1968-1969. We were warned not to fly in Cambodian airspace. I had friends up north that had secret missions . This is first time I have heard of this mission.

Great video. Subbed...👍

"Kids on the control tower" because its a Spielberg produced series? 😂 That scene of the kids on the control tower was from Episode 9 when the folks and children of the county came in their Sunday best to bid farewell to the 100th BG taxing off to return stateside. And those kids were there in the base as confirmed, and one of them today help create the 100th BG museum in Thorpe Abbots. 😜

Thanks for the video. As an Airman second class I arrived at Danang AB in December 1970 and was assigned to the 20 TASS. I remember hearing the story of a 19 TASS pilot directing MIG aircraft dropping bombs on the NVA. I remember working on the O2A, OV-10, and occasionally the O2B(BS Bomber). We also had M-148 Jeeps with radios. The radio Shop had the radio call sign of Parrot North. The O2s, were Covey. A Cambodian C-47 used to fly into Danang frequently.

10:21I just see B-17s with one engine on each wing

6:25 Senior military advisor: Dale Dye. There's your FIRST problem. A Marine as the military advisor for a movie about the Army Air Force. 🤣

I've been to the old Thorpe Abbot airfield (now a farm field) in Norfolk when I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall (the 100th ARW traces its roots to the 100th BG). The old tower is still there with a few support buildings converted into a museum of sorts. You can still make out the taxiways and runways in the farm field. The CGI in this series looks really disappointing. At least the movie Memphis Belle used actual aircraft. Also: I had no idea a B-17 sounded like an F-16 at full bore. 😆

Honestly I think Memphis bell is a better watch so far

They also play the same 40s song in every 40s movie 😂😂

Extremely unrealistic approach speeds from the german planes coming up from behind.

Solid analysis, Sir. I can't wait to become a B-17 when I grow up :)

The portrayal of the 100th BG in the show seems to be mostly spot on, though there are some skips of time and other very understandable changes and things left out due to it being a show and not a documentary. For instance, Barry Keoghan's character...Curtis Biddick...was from Wisconsin, but the show indicates he is from Brooklyn New York...I have not seen it confirmed, but it seems clear the change could have been made if Barry could do a good Brooklyn accent, but not a good Wisconsin one. LOL As for the history of the 8th Air Force and the bombing campaign shown in the show, that is complicated, of course. My own big worry is whether the show will deal with the issue of how imprecise "precision" bombing was, and the civilian casualties that result, in an honest manner, or whether it will only repeat the mythology of bombs dropped into pickle barrels from 25k feet altitude. The way the writers introduce the Norden bombsight in this episode is not the reality of how things turned out, but this is early in the show, so there is plenty of time to come back to the Norden and give a true assessment of how well it actually worked.👍

I'm guessing you've never read Empire Of The Sun, which is JG Ballard's autobiographical account of life as a child under Japanese occupation in China... so misplaced snark there.

This series was made about a mile and a half up the road from where I live!

C'mon man it's Hollywood. Close enough!

Sadly what seems to always forgotten is that the 4000 lbs of bombs that a B17 could take to Berlin could be taken to Berlin in half the time at a higher speed by a De Havilland Mosquito and it’s 2 man crew.

At 1:10 what is that on the head rest/support of the pilot seat? It's been bugging me for days now.

Hi...great content...I had no idea that there were so many wrong things in just the credits...does not bode well for the rest of the show. One quick thing...at around 10:56 you talk about the story of "M'LLE ZIG ZIG", but it seems like you did not realize that "M'LLE" was just a way of abbreviating "Mademoiselle". Oh, and "zig zig" is/was a slang term for secual intercourse, so the actual name of the plane in English would have been "Miss F***". You gotta love that military sense of humor in WW2.😁

10.10.43 Oblt. Heinrich Klöpper (87.) of 7./JG 1, B-17 22 km. N.E. Münster: 7.000 m. 15.19 (Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr. -).

Latin??? That's FRENCH!!! "San Finis" = ENDLESS in English 😂😂😂

I was excited to watch this new series, but I think it doesn't come close to 'Band of Brothers' in quality and scope. I so far skipped ahead to the combat scenes and got bored with all endless the talking parts.

Just another Hollywood depiction of how the USAAF won the war.

Phew! Not again a Memphs Belle - copy, where clear-eyed yankee boys with rose-red cheeks are spreading democracy to the ever-evil Nazi Germany. Aber, wo sind die Luftwaffe? Und Reichsverteidigung?

How many movie goers do you think will be worried by all these inaccuracies? IMO not many. In the scheme of things us aviation nit pickers are few and far between. What I dislike are the phoney looking computer generated effects. By contrast the film "the Battle of Britain" filmed in '69 or so looked so much more real, of course this is just IMO.

Great job. I subscribed. All the best on your channel.

As a rivet counter due to building scale models, armchair researcher and having been around many WW2 aircraft, four being B-17s it is difficult to suspend disbelief when technical/historical flaws are present in film. Christian Bale's character yells, "P-51. Cadillac of the Sky!" which could be a mistake the boy is meant to misquotes in the script or the writer and or director wanted the line for the scene knowing or not knowing, 'Cadillac of the Sky' was used to describe the Republic, P-47, Thunderbolt. This is a good example of what motivates an alteration of historical facts in film. Peter Jackson's attempt to remake, 'The Dam Busters', and the trouble over a dog's name. The War Lover, (1962) Staring Steve McQueen, had three B-17Gs taken out of an outdoor Arizona bone yard after fifteen years and flown to England for the production. They have lots of flaws and missing equipment. The scenes with the tail gunner in a Cheyenne turret using the old ring and bead sight is one of many inaccuracies that make you think it should have been possible to get right. PT109 (1963) had to use three, converted 85 foot crash boats running on only one of three engines. They are mostly convincing but for those who know, not the proper 80 Elco design. The Twilight Zone, (1960) TV episode "King Nine Will Not Return', featuring a crashed B-25 has an example of the worst job of a film crew making a top turret. As long as the script/story/acting is done well the technical hurtles can be forgiven to a point. The good news is any of the CGI can be easily corrected/improved in time.

God bless USA 🇺🇸 Long live USA 🇺🇸 I like big and bright US symbol. But today, US symbol looks dark and weak. What an embarrassment!!!

We can expect many such, and probably more egregious, mistakes from this series. Hollywood never gets everything right in these historical pieces.

I believe "sans finis" (6:21) is French for "without end," or "unending," not Latin.

Sadly, the bean counters at Apple cut the budget to convert the B-17Fs into Gs..... The producers had to accept Apple's condition of a fixed budget for MOTA, and near the end of the CGI development, the Unit Production Manager told the CGI crew there was not enough budget to make the B-17Gs, because the changes were "trivial" and not worth the money. Of course, they had to redo the CGI anyway to make the planes natural metal, but no chin turrets.....bleh.

Missing at 4:42 is the aileron trim tab.

If you are going to make a series commemorating those brave USAAF 8th you need to get the basic details correct & tell their true stories. From the initial trailers for this series I was sceptical that it would be just another Hollywood version of WW2 with a mix of "Schindler's List" (the death train sequence), "Garrison's Guerillas" (downed aircrew taking on German soldiers) and "Apocalypse's Now" (downed airman up to his neck in swamp water with 1911 pistol in hand spying on German soldiers). The involvement of the "Tuskegee Airmen" who flew in the Mediterranean Theater and not out of England is only there for "Diversity Box Tick" reasons as black GI's didn't feature as aircrew in the 8th.

The great Ray Hanna. Flying the P51 Mustang 'Jugboat' and waving to Christian Bale..

You the MAN ! I agree with almost every discrepancy you mention here . I am a US Army Airforce , collector , expert in historical details and equipment artifacts . I have been .for over 60 Years . I have been involved in Extremely Detailed projects over the decades in Photographing , Mapping and Mission details , Equipment Used , Uniforms and Flight gear .not only 8th AF but All US Army Air Forces and Naval aviation during this time period . It Erks me to NO End , that producers of this Vast Magnitude and Budget cannot do better on their RESEARCH ,BEFORE producing an Epic Miniseries such as this is . I guess you either call it "Ignorance" or simply Artistic License . None the less , I truly believe this dramatic series could , for Us " Nit pickers" be a bit more Authentic in its production .... Anyway Enjoy ! : )

I'm honestly worried that they are making quick, surface level research decisions, missing key details to save money.

WGARA??

Let's hope this show is more like Band of Brothers and less like The Pacific.

The B-17 “G” at 7:47 is missing the chin turret that identified it as a G model 😅

Your research was impressive, nice video.

Ah, why did you point out the B-17 wing in the intro? That's going to bother me now lol.

Pacific wasn't meant to portray characters on an individual level in the same way Band of Brothers did. The latter told a story through the perspective of brotherhood and the relationship of the company. Pacific told a story based on experience and impact

I cannot wait for this series. I think it will be fantastic. The planes look MUCH better in the most recent trailers. Thanks for explaining how this series went from HBO to Apple TV+...I still don't understand why, but, I didn't realize how poorly the Pacific performed, sadly.

So far I've been quite happy with everything I've seen from trailers/clips and other promo. One annoyance from an accuracy point of view will be the lack of B-17G representation because it appears that the replicas and CG will be portraying B-17Fs throughout the war, with only the paintjobs shifting from olive drab to bare metal as the war progresses. Apparently the intention was to use CGI to 'modify' replicas in post, but I wouldn't be surprised if they simply ran out of VFX budget given the demands of this show, and had to sacrifice that particular detail.

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I must make a clarification. Around the 20:15 mark I say that Cambodian MiGs visited Pleiku Air Base , when in reality it was Phu Cat Air Base. I should have verified that the tail codes of the F-4Ds in the picture (which show HK 480th TFS, and HB 489th TFS) which belonged to the 37th TFW 66-70 and later 12th TWF 70-71 Phu Cat Air Base, South Vietnam. This was brought to my attention when watching a video about the Have Ferry and Have Drill programs along with a mention of the Have Privilege program by Not A Pound For Air To Ground: ruclips.net/video/OvOCtIHyqhk/видео.html I can't recommend his channel enough!

Enjoyed your video very much. Yes indeed there were some things I could have added. I was stationed my last six months at Bien Thuy and have numerous pictures of Air Base. One picture you may have enjoyed taken in April 1971 while getting ready for a combat mission in Cambodia when Captain Kim Kano (my normal side kick), Royal Cambodian Air Force was also in the picture, My Call sign was Tilly 31 while stationed there. The picture was taken from the front of the O-2 showing full rocket pods. I also had pictures of several Bien Thuy O-2A's with tail numbers showing and I still have most of my Bien Thuy and TASS patches. We never wore patches during missions. We did have rocket attacks at Bien Thuy, but, not many. I also flew the first flight of the day while it was still dark. We owned the south side of the River and the VC owned the north side. We normally took off toward the river. I turned off all my exterior lights and ran the engines at a rpm differential. The difference in the sound of two engine not in harmony fooled the VC for me every time. I never took a hit on takeoff. When Captain Kano was not available, I had a French speaking American Captain who was a photographer. He took lots of photo's of the ground while I was putting in airstrikes. Thanks for bringing back memories. Looking forward to sharing this video with my children and grand children.

Great effort!