p38 in hollywood movies

[Allan Morrison]

Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?

[Dudley Henriques]

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> Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?

You'll get all you need in " A Guy Named Joe" 1943

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[Peter Stickney]

In article >,
(Allan Morrison) writes:
> Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?

"A Guy called Joe", later remade by Speilberg into "Always".

And, while it wasn't really a feature, Bill Lear, Jr. (The son of the
Lear Radio and Learjet guy) starred in a low-budgeter just postwar
about a typical Los Angeles teenager who just happened to own a P-38.

Of course, he _was_ a typical Los Angeles teenager who happened to own
a P-38. When he entered UPT in the early 1950s, he had over 1,000 Hrs
of P-38 time. (He flew plank-wing F-84s in Germany. I think he was
with the 36th Fighter-Bomber Wing.)


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bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

[Dudley Henriques]

"Peter Stickney" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> (Allan Morrison) writes:
> > Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?
>
> "A Guy called Joe", later remade by Speilberg into "Always".

Don't believe any 38's in the remake Pete. Just the original I think.
Dudley

[Steve Hix]

In article >,
(Allan Morrison) wrote:

> Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?

"Von Ryan's Express", a little early in the movie.

[Mortimer Schnerd, RN]

Dudley Henriques wrote:
>> "A Guy called Joe", later remade by Speilberg into "Always".
>
> Don't believe any 38's in the remake Pete. Just the original I think.


That would be correct. Plenty of B-26s though....



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[Dudley Henriques]

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" > wrote in
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> Dudley Henriques wrote:
> >> "A Guy called Joe", later remade by Speilberg into "Always".
> >
> > Don't believe any 38's in the remake Pete. Just the original I
think.
>
>
> That would be correct. Plenty of B-26s though....

Shhhhhhhh Mort, you'll wake Art up!!! Those were A 26's :-)))
Dudley

[Dave Eadsforth]

In article >, Allan
Morrison > writes
>Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?

Briefly in 'A walk in the sun', a 1950s film (about the ground war in
Italy) that starred John Ireland. P38s can be seen hurtling across the
background in some shots.

Cheers,

Dave

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[jc]

Peter Stickney wrote:

> In article >,
> (Allan Morrison) writes:
>> Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?
>
> "A Guy called Joe", later remade by Speilberg into "Always".
>
> And, while it wasn't really a feature, Bill Lear, Jr.


IIRC he did some tests with the Swiss P16 STOL attack/fighter and the
Learjet owes quite a bit to it mainly in the wing.


(The son of the
> Lear Radio and Learjet guy) starred in a low-budgeter just postwar
> about a typical Los Angeles teenager who just happened to own a P-38.
>
> Of course, he _was_ a typical Los Angeles teenager who happened to own
> a P-38. When he entered UPT in the early 1950s, he had over 1,000 Hrs
> of P-38 time. (He flew plank-wing F-84s in Germany. I think he was
> with the 36th Fighter-Bomber Wing.)
>
>

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[Clyde Campbell]

there was a pair of them in one episode of Baa Baa Black Sheep.

[Tom Swift]

"Clyde Campbell" > wrote in message
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> there was a pair of them in one episode of Baa Baa Black Sheep.

Halsey's story with James Cagney, had the Lanphier/Yamamoto shootdown.
12 O-Clock High showing the escort of P-38's

[Michal Los]

Uzytkownik "Allan Morrison" > napisal w wiadomosci
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> Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?

Iron Eagle III :-) (with Louis Gosset jr.)

with rockets and rocket engine :-D

also Zero (T6), Me-109(P-51C), Spitfire and Scaled Composes Ares as Me-163
:-) (and some traning jets and C-123)
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Michal Los

[frank may]

"Michal Los" > wrote in message >...
> Uzytkownik "Allan Morrison" > napisal w wiadomosci
> om...
> > Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?
>
> Iron Eagle III :-) (with Louis Gosset jr.)
>
> with rockets and rocket engine :-D
>
> also Zero (T6), Me-109(P-51C), Spitfire and Scaled Composes Ares as Me-163
> :-) (and some traning jets and C-123)



There's one used in the Howard Hughes movie of the late '70s
which starred Tommy Lee Jones as HH. It is a stand-in for the Hughes
XF-11.

[John Keeney]

"AJG" > wrote in message
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> (Allan Morrison) wrote:
>
> >Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?
>
> "You Came Along" starring Robert Cummings and Don Defore. Interesting
> movie. P-38 Fighter pilot returns dying of Leukemia.

"A Guy Named Joe", starring: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne.
At least one very nice scene of a P-38 doing a little display
upon arriving at an air field.
The story was seriously rewritten and turned into "ALWAYS" with
Richard Dreyfuss getting Spencer Tracy's role and the flying
moved from WWII combat to modern fire bombing.