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Title: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Post by: VWE on September 22, 2007, 06:38:22 AM

Sitting in my trailer in Baghdad and watching this classic on cable... good stuff!

Title: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Post by: rpm on September 22, 2007, 07:24:40 AM

Just watched it 2 nights ago. I still get a kick outa the woman flight instructor.

Title: Re: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Post by: WilldCrd on September 22, 2007, 07:49:20 AM

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Originally posted by VWE
Sitting in my trailer in Baghdad and watching this classic on cable... good stuff!

you guys get cable out there?
i woulda thought you could only use satalite

Title: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Post by: VWE on September 22, 2007, 08:03:08 AM

Well it is satellite, I just call it cable... kind of an old acronym.

Title: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Post by: Irwink! on September 22, 2007, 10:24:14 AM

I remember seeing the local premier of Tora! Tora! Tora! on New Year's Eve 1970. A local congressman was there. I recall the entire audience standing and cheering when the first meatball went down. Sadly we don't see that kind of thing much anymore.

Anyway, it's one of the most historically accurate movies I have ever seen. I know, they used an Essex class carrier for some of the Japanese carrier launchings - I'm speaking of the story presented without embellishment.

Title: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on September 22, 2007, 10:09:55 PM

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Originally posted by rpm
Just watched it 2 nights ago. I still get a kick outa the woman flight instructor.

Cornelia Fort, from Nashville Tennessee. There is a small airport in Nashville named for her. She was killed later during the war, in Texas I think, in a mid-air.

Title: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Post by: Latrobe on September 23, 2007, 01:09:29 AM

I have it on DVD. I didn't like it as much as "Pearl Harbor" the 'love story'.