Wait, Eagle Squadrons weren't used till 1941, where they? At that time, the B of B was pretty much over, and the LW were busy preparing for Operation Barbosoa. Is this movie really that inaccurate?
Oh, it get's worse.
First off,
to all you guys who could actually tell what friggin' spit he was driving during that shakey cam (tm) bit.
He gets shot down in the BoB, comes back to america, flies with his friend and fights the japanese at pearl harbor in a P-40 that acts like an F-104 starfighter right off the runway. Displayin his ho-tard ack weenie tactics, he drags zeroes by a tower for his ground pounding buddies to shoot down with M1's and pistols.
Yeah.
After Pearl harbor (they land, dummy- they're the heroes), they're brought in by an Army Air Corps general who's planning the doolittle raid. So they get up to snuff in B-25's and go bomb tokyo (with extreme pwnage being delivered), and ditch it in China (next to the ever-so-clearly marked Japanese tents. 'cuz, you know, all things japanese have to have a big red meatball on 'em- emporor tojo said so). Of course our heroes have the super-uber 1911 .45's with Japanese seeking ammo and hold off assault after assault.
Yeah.
anyway, that's about what the film has to do with WW2, and we're not even talking the main f***ing plot here. There's a LOVE story in this whole thing that'd make ma an' pa Barker go
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Now here's what REALLY pisses me off about this suckwangfest... Bay made it out to be some tribute to the diddlying veterans. Yeah. Even had vets from Pearl Harbor doing interviews and sh**.