CasualModel98 Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 For all the B-25 buffs out there, here is a TV series featuring real B-25s. Directed by George Clooney. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil_Toast_RSA Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) Name of show? I swear the bell is ringing in my head, but it seems the hunchback is out for lunch right now... [EDIT]- It's in the title. I did mention the hunchback right? Edited August 28, 2019 by Evil_Toast_RSA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 I watched it back in May when it was released and thoroughly enjoyed it, more so than the movie adaptation from the 70s which I found a bit camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selwyn Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 3 hours ago, Smithy said: I watched it back in May when it was released and thoroughly enjoyed it, more so than the movie adaptation from the 70s which I found a bit camp. I love the book, but I watched about three episodes and gave it up, it was a truly terrible adaptation in my opinion. Selwyn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 13 minutes ago, Selwyn said: I love the book, but I watched about three episodes and gave it up, it was a truly terrible adaptation in my opinion. Selwyn Horses for courses then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selwyn Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 1 minute ago, Smithy said: Horses for courses then. Absolutely! Selwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacificmustang Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 I enjoyed it far more than the movie, and the book. Probably, because the book and movie timeline jumped around so much I have to say too, that the base looked fantastic, the set dressing and attention to detail was incredible (says the bloke who’s never seen a real WW2 base😀) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CasualModel98 Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 I didn't read the book so I enjoyed the show as it was. Yes I thought the attention to detail was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Judging by the posted photo, the studio must have used a couple of barrels of salt to do the weathering! (Yossarian and I both have something in common- we are both Armenian!) 😜 Mike 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Harmsworth Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 The B-25s passed through Duxford July 2018 on their way to or from Sardinia (I think that's where they filmed it) and I have a photo of one that looks exactly like that. Not sure I can post it here because of copyright. I enjoyed Catch-22 a lot - watched it on Channel 4 recently. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPuente54 Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 @72modeler, Yossarian was Assyrian; not Armenian. It has been some time(long time) since I read the book; but, do remember that bit. My old friend, Mike, a former Marine(door gunner and crew chief) and participant in the SE Asian War Games(1969-1972); was a big fan of the book. He was a big fan of "Major Major Major Major", etc. He lent me his copy to read. It is a funny; and very good book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 7 hours ago, JPuente54 said: @72modeler, Yossarian was Assyrian; not Armenian. It has been some time(long time) since I read the book; but, do remember that bit. My old friend, Mike, a former Marine(door gunner and crew chief) and participant in the SE Asian War Games(1969-1972); was a big fan of the book. He was a big fan of "Major Major Major Major", etc. He lent me his copy to read. It is a funny; and very good book. Both of the Yossarians I have known were Armenian, and I have read that the character named Yossarian in the novel Catch 22 was based on one of Heller's Assyrian colleagues named Yohannon. Heller was a USAAF fighter pilot in WW2 in the MTO. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornet133 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 No, Heller was a Navigator on B-25s in the Meditteranean in WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJP Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Wikipedia's biography has him as a bombardier on B-25s of the 488th BS 340th BG, consistent with Yossarian's trade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e8n2 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Look for the book, "The Bridgebusters - The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Wing" by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver. Gives the straight poop. Its available from Amazon. Later, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornet133 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 To be more exact Heller was a bombardier/navigator (i.e he did both jobs) but the bombardier part only lasted a few minutes on the bomb run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 I stand corrected! That sound you hear is me wiping the egg from my face- B-25 bombardier it is, then! Thanks for correcting my misinformed post- should have looked at more than the one written reference I saw that listed his service. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPuente54 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 @72modeler, Mike, I won't argue; this would make me look stupider than I am. I was just going by the book. And, yes, I do know the Armenians; in Lake County, Ill. and Kenosha and Racine Counties in Wis.; there are a lot here. There are two Churches in Waukegan, Ill.; that are Armenian. And my step-daughter is Armenian; with a last name of Ovasapyan. Yes, a "yan" not an "ian". Her father's family was from Iran; they tended to spell with the "y" not the "i". Oh and an "Armenian Fest" is held in the Racine and Kenosha every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 28 minutes ago, JPuente54 said: Oh and an "Armenian Fest" is held in the Racine and Kenosha every year. Small world, JP! My father, the late Lt. Colonel, USAAF/USA, was born and raised in Racine! As the news will attest, Armenians are still repaying the Russians for the atrocities committed against them during and after the 1917 revolution. One of our dearest military friends, also an Armenian, Jack Terzian, was a WW2 P-47 pilot and we were stationed together at Dyess AB; he was our family's insurance agent after he retired from the service. BTW, going by your posts here on BM, I would daresay you are anything but stupid! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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