From The Movies: Peregon (2006) - Peregon(2006).jpg

[Stas]

Fresh new Russian film: Peregon
This story is about the delivery Aircobras via Alaska, Siberia during
the WWII and evolves around a love story between femail USAF pilot and
Soviet pilot and comic situations when different cultures meets.

[Paul Elliot]

Stas wrote:
> Fresh new Russian film: Peregon
> This story is about the delivery Aircobras via Alaska, Siberia during
> the WWII and evolves around a love story between femail USAF pilot and
> Soviet pilot and comic situations when different cultures meets.
>
>

Are these films available with English subtitles?
Also, where would one buy these?
Thanks.
--
PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS

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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt

[William R Thompson]

Stas wrote:

> Fresh new Russian film: Peregon
> This story is about the delivery of Aircobras via Alaska, Siberia during
> the WWII and evolves around a love story between female USAF pilot and
> Soviet pilot and comic situations when different cultures meets.

My Dad served in Alaska during the war (he drove a
mail truck along the AlCan Highway for APO 985).
From what he said, I doubt that a Soviet pilot would have
had the time for a romance. Russian pilots evidently had
orders to get home as fast as they could; Dad saw a few
P-39s crash on take-off, and heard from American ground
crew that their pilots sometimes ignored instructions to
warm up the engines in cold weather.

It sounds like an interesting film, tjough.

--Bill Thompson

[Stas]

>
>Are these films available with English subtitles?
M-mmm... May be . Ones I came across a website in Russian with Russian
subtitles for tons of movies. May be there is some in English.

>Also, where would one buy these?
I think, in Russia.
>Thanks.

[Stas]

Just minute ago checked the web. Here what I found.
http://www.ctb.ru/en/newfilms.jsp
Description in English.
DVD should have English.

Where to buy - on Internet I could not find who's selling legal DVDs,
only pirated MPEG4, which is not worthy to buy. If someone wants, can
find it in inet, but it will be only Russian audio. We have to wait a
bit, movie is very new - from July. One more fact against pirated
MPEG4s - according to inet rumor, they miss last 20 minutes of the
film. Ha. Originally film is 140 minutes.
I hope to get DVD myself and can inform if it really has English
language or subs.


>Are these films available with English subtitles?
>Also, where would one buy these?
>Thanks.

[Stas]

>My Dad served in Alaska during the war (he drove a
>mail truck along the AlCan Highway for APO 985).
>From what he said, I doubt that a Soviet pilot would have
>had the time for a romance. Russian pilots evidently had
>orders to get home as fast as they could; Dad saw a few
>P-39s crash on take-off, and heard from American ground
>crew that their pilots sometimes ignored instructions to
>warm up the engines in cold weather.
>
>It sounds like an interesting film, tjough.
>
>--Bill Thompson
>

Bill, was it in town of Ferbencs (spelling?)? I read that Russian
pilots were stationed there, but not allowed to go into the town
alone, only in groups. And had problems with breraking this order.

Can I find more stories, like memories, facts, documents, about that
episode of the war on Internet? What else your Dad told you
interesting from that time?


Stas

[William R Thompson]

"Stas" wrote:

Bill Thompson wrote:

>>My Dad served in Alaska during the war (he drove a
>>mail truck along the AlCan Highway for APO 985).
>>From what he said, I doubt that a Soviet pilot would have
>>had the time for a romance. Russian pilots evidently had
>>orders to get home as fast as they could; Dad saw a few
>>P-39s crash on take-off, and heard from American ground
>>crew that their pilots sometimes ignored instructions to
>>warm up the engines in cold weather.

> Bill, was it in town of Ferbencs (spelling?)?

Fairbanks.

> I read that Russian
> pilots were stationed there, but not allowed to go into the town
> alone, only in groups. And had problems with breaking this order.

> Can I find more stories, like memories, facts, documents, about that
> episode of the war on Internet?

I did a Google search for "Alsib" (Alaskan-Siberian Route) and came
up with 1500 hits. Some of them are:

http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/library/history/malmstromhistory.asp

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1668

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/bookrev/hays.html

(book review: "The Alaska-Siberia Connection: The WW II Air Route"
by Otis Hays, Jr.)

http://777avg.com/unithistory/

(American volunteer pilots fighting in the USSR)

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/lad.htm

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/p39/index.htm

(P-39 recovered from a Siberian lake)

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/VII/AAF-VII-6.html

http://www.veteranstoday.com/article671.html

(A pilot's experiences, including the Alaska-Siberia flights)

http://lyceum.istu.edu/alsib/

(A Russian site, in English)

http://www.mtgrea.ang.af.mil/history.html

(Gore Field, Montana--starting point of the AlSib route)

http://www.rossica.org/Samovar/viewthread.php?tid=176

(Russian units on the AlSib route)

http://fairbanks-alaska.com/eielson.htm

(another base on the route)

http://www.aviation.ru/articles/land-lease.html

(information on types of planes which flew the AlSib route)

http://kingcobra.quickseek.com/

(US/USSR cooperation in flight-testing the P-63)

> What else your Dad told you interesting from that time?

For the most part, he wished that something interesting had
happened while he was there. He was sent to Alaska in the
fall of 1942, and his Army Post Office unit was a rear-area
service. (They were issued Springfield 1903 rifles; these were
confiscated after someone got bored and shot at a passing train.)
At one point his unit was evacuated; it wasn't until fifty years
later that he learned it was because of a false alarm over a
threatened Japanese invasion. His rank was T/5 (Technical
Corporal) and nobody explained anything to him.

I scanned his photo album last year. His parents sent him a
some clippings from his hometown newspaper, including a few
pictures from the Alaska-Siberia route. They're large but I'll
post them.

--Bill Thompson

[William R Thompson]

[William R Thompson]

I can just imagine the conversation:

Moravetz: "Man it's cold!"

Postovsky: "It's *really* cold!"

Kiyan: "You Americans, always joking!"

--Bill Thompson

[William R Thompson]

[Scott Skylane]

William R Thompson wrote:

> My Dad served in Alaska during the war (he drove a
> mail truck along the AlCan Highway for APO 985).
> From what he said, I doubt that a Soviet pilot would have
> had the time for a romance. Russian pilots evidently had
> orders to get home as fast as they could; Dad saw a few
> P-39s crash on take-off, and heard from American ground
> crew that their pilots sometimes ignored instructions to
> warm up the engines in cold weather.
/snip/

There is still wreckage of what I think was a P-39 along side the
Anchorage-Fairbanks highway. It's located near Cantwell, about
half-way, just a few hundred yards east of the road. This is at the
highest elevation of the highway, I imagine some pilot was trying to
sneak his way through the pass, and didn't make it. Not much left but
the half melted hulk of an engine, and what looks like wing
center-section structure.

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane

[Stas]

Thanks, Bill!
Very interesting. It would be cool to see such a fleet of Cobras, and
have a photocamera in hands, of cource. :-)


>I can just imagine the conversation:
>
>Moravetz: "Man it's cold!"
>
>Postovsky: "It's *really* cold!"
>
>Kiyan: "You Americans, always joking!"
>
>--Bill Thompson
>

[Alan[_1_]]

Zowie!
Where did all those Allison engines get spirited off too?

"William R Thompson" > wrote in message
nk.net...
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>
>

[William R Thompson]

"Alan" wrote:

> Zowie!
> Where did all those Allison engines get spirited off too?

The Russian Front, as part of Lend-Lease.

--Bill Thompson

[Peter Hucker]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:56:22 -0000, Stas > wrote:

> Just minute ago checked the web. Here what I found.
> http://www.ctb.ru/en/newfilms.jsp
> Description in English.
> DVD should have English.
>
> Where to buy - on Internet I could not find who's selling legal DVDs,
> only pirated MPEG4, which is not worthy to buy. If someone wants, can
> find it in inet, but it will be only Russian audio. We have to wait a
> bit, movie is very new - from July. One more fact against pirated
> MPEG4s - according to inet rumor, they miss last 20 minutes of the
> film.

Rumour started by the capitalist movie makers.

> Ha. Originally film is 140 minutes.
> I hope to get DVD myself and can inform if it really has English
> language or subs.
>
>
>> Are these films available with English subtitles?
>> Also, where would one buy these?
>> Thanks.
>
>



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[Paul Elliot]

Stas wrote:
> Just minute ago checked the web. Here what I found.
> http://www.ctb.ru/en/newfilms.jsp
> Description in English.
> DVD should have English.
>
> Where to buy - on Internet I could not find who's selling legal DVDs,
> only pirated MPEG4, which is not worthy to buy. If someone wants, can
> find it in inet, but it will be only Russian audio. We have to wait a
> bit, movie is very new - from July. One more fact against pirated
> MPEG4s - according to inet rumor, they miss last 20 minutes of the
> film. Ha. Originally film is 140 minutes.
> I hope to get DVD myself and can inform if it really has English
> language or subs.
>
>
>
>>Are these films available with English subtitles?
>>Also, where would one buy these?
>>Thanks.
>
>

Thanks for checking that out Stas!
I will wait for the results of your research.
By the way, the name of the Alaskan city is Fairbanks.
Thanks again.

--
PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS

Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt

[Bob Harrington]

"Alan" > wrote in news:PQt5h.251709$R52.138140
@fe07.news.easynews.com:

> Zowie!
> Where did all those Allison engines get spirited off too?

And just to be pedantic - because I'm old and I get to - these are P-63
KingCobras.

Bob ^,,^