Harlingen was my old hometown, and I graduated from the high school there in 1983. Saw several of the old CAF airshows there, and went by the Marine Military Academy several times, whose barracks were originally those of the old Gunnery School. Harlingen AAF later became a navigators' school before it closed in the early 1960s and was turned into Valley International Airport.

@DavidRice111

2 ай бұрын

I remember the Iwo Jima replica statue down there! Couldn't pay me to go down to the Valley today!

This movie's location became a combination of the Marine Military Academy and the Harlingen Airport. Back before the Confederate Air Force was renamed the Commemorative Air Force for PC reasons, that was also housed there; Fifi, the last flying B-29, was also there. I spent three years at MMA and graduated in 1979. Most every building you see in this movie still stood when I went there, and I lived in two of those barracks you see along the Battalion Street. The barracks still stand today. My god this brings back memories.

Been to Harlingen twice....back in 1979 and 1980. Worked at the CAF facility in my final weeks of my senior year of high school. Came back a year later and visited. Met the old timers Lefty Gardner and a bunch of other guys. One of them was a Hellcat ace during the war. I think his name was Archie Donahue. But, it's been over forty years.

As a kid I lived not far from the old gunnery school base and visited the war museum there many times. It was home to the 1st Confederate Air Force Wing. They restored to flying condition planes from every country that fought in WW2. Due to PC it's now called the Commemorative Air Force with Wings in many different states and take people on flights to help support their work.

When that guy in the plane yawned , it made me yawn . Even if it's in a movie and someone yawns, it's contagious . LOL

Excellent, 🎥 thank you for sharing my dad landed on the beach of Normandy invasion. Thanks to all who served. 🙃☕🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸

@DavidRice111

2 ай бұрын

My dad was in the 2nd wave at Utah Beach.

@michalwintz7083

2 ай бұрын

@@DavidRice111 my dad said he was in the 3rd wave. I guess we're lucky 😊

@DavidRice111

2 ай бұрын

@@michalwintz7083 Actually, I've read that after the 1st wave, the Germans found their range and the defense was far more ferocious? My dad made it through Feb.'45 when he was reported MIA. When Mom started receiving letters dated Apr. '45, she knew he was ok. They were married 65yrs!

My Dad did two years at Harlingen AFB, in the late 50'. The base ran a navigator school there, until it was deactivated as a Air Force base. Good memories as an air force brat. I saved up eight dollars from my allowance and bought a Daisy bb rifle, from the base exchange. It was called a PX, back in the day..

@hairydiablo1326

3 жыл бұрын

They still call it a PX! I grew up in Harlingen too, but in the 90's. It's cool that our small town was able to contribute to the war effort.

@archiedavis1079

3 жыл бұрын

AirForce BX Army PX...NO DIFF. I just remember 20cent Marlbugers 5cent loaf of bread...beer at the FourSeasons was barely over a buck a 6pak

@user-gd5lw2sh2o

4 ай бұрын

1:14:30 lol😅

John Hamilton, best known as Perry White from the 1950s Superman TV series, was the doctor during Sandy's death scene. With his square jaw and silver hair he played many roles as a figure of authority such as police chief/commissioner, judge, senor military officer, businessman, etc.

The gunnery school is still famous here in South Texas. As a TXARNG small arms instructor, in the wake of 9/11 when the Guard was missioned to do pre-TSA stuff while TSA were getting invented, another NCO and I went to Harlingen to give an airport security course to some members of the Inf Bn there. We were billeted at the Academy and, crazily, the "backstop" we were assigned for the firing portion was an outer wall of one of the buildings.

@armandhammer9617

4 ай бұрын

So you're responsible for making everybody take their shoes off, get microwaved and have their pocket knives taken away?

@edbecka233

4 ай бұрын

No, when the Guard was handling it, they did things right! It took the democrats to pervert it to the way the TSA is now.@@armandhammer9617

Robert Mitchum So new to film he didn't even get credits for this one!!!

Another great find, thanks!

My father was a tail gunner On a B-25 In the Pacific Theater His brother, Was a supply truck driver At the same time

Back in the mid 70s I worked in Matamoros Mexico and flew into this airport in Brownsville, Texas.

@hairydiablo1326

3 жыл бұрын

This airport is in Harlingen, Texas.

Una buena película clásica del género bélico en poder disfrutar plenamente. Simplemente genial de principio a fin tal filme en cuestión. No cabe duda que los cursos para ser artilleros en esos aviones debieron ser fuertes para preparar a estos hombres con sus arduas misiones de combate. Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.

Ah yes, and those bombers built right down the road from me. Nice trip down Memory Lane.

Thank you 🤩🤩🤩💖💖

A goodie. Thanks.

I think the kid is the actor who played Henry Aldrich in the 30s..... HENNNNRY!!! Henry Aldrich!

@BLRooster

5 жыл бұрын

Coming mother!!

37:31, a walk-on by Robert Mitchum

@Apollonot

4 жыл бұрын

He should have slugged that wise guy.

@vgbourdon

3 жыл бұрын

@@Apollonot I thought you died in a NASA accident.

@Apollonot

3 жыл бұрын

@@vgbourdon The real Virgil Gus Grissom was murdered by NASA along with Roger Chaffee and Ed White. Gus's memory will live in spite of the sorry bastards.

@vgbourdon

3 жыл бұрын

@@Apollonot "Murdered" ?? What's your theory?

so that's how "Boston Blackie" started; Army films for the masses. An uncle trained at that field

What Foxy said about his ex-convict father is as true today as it was in 1943. A ex-convict is constantly hassled by the police and when he tries to go straight society won't let him. He can not find a job. My roommate has a record and has applied for over 50 minimum wage jobs in the last 10 years and has admitted to his record on applications and has never been hired. also the cops wrote him up for a phony ticket for a phony violation on his bicycle. He will probably get jail time.

@europeon2wheels89

3 жыл бұрын

@David Hull Not necessarily true. You make mistakes, you eat crap for a while but keep your head up and work through it.. I was busted on 4 felony possession charges in late '71. All small personal use quantities but pot was a big no-no in the late 60s-early 70s. I was followed, harassed and finally took 3 years in the Army offered by the judge. (They did that during Vietnam because the Army needed bullet stoppers.) Do 3 years, stay out of trouble and the charges go away. Went in as an E-1 in May of '72. Locked out of a lot of jobs because I couldn't get a security clearance. Stayed out of trouble spent 2 years in various schools, promoted regularly, got a secret clearance, applied and accepted for flight school, reenlisted Dec '74, graduated Jan '76 as a WO1 Warrant Officer flying helicopters. 3 years later left the service (as a CW2) and spent the next 34 years as a pilot in lower 48 US, Alaska and Africa finishing my career and retiring in Europe. Now, I spend most of my time riding my Harley (bought new14 years ago for cash, 130,000 miles today) around Europe. Success is never ending and failure is never final. Your buddy needs to change up the jobs and companies where he's applying. Obviously his plan isn't working. Smaller mom and pop companies that are only interested in labor that will work hard. Some time building up credibility and he'll move up and/or on. Probably a good idea to move as far away as possible from where he's known. Good luck to him.

@europeon2wheels89

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhull1481 It CAN but it doesn't HAVE to. Sorry you have no friends maybe if you learned to write in English instead of capital letter abbreviations it would help. I was replying to john green. The submission has been corrected. That should make you feel the world is right.

@europeon2wheels89

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhull1481 Pat on the back? From you? Not hardly. But I do try to illustrate to others their situations aren't hopeless. So, quit responding to my denseness with your gibberish and we'll be done. Or better yet I'll no longer respond to your nothing responses.

@allenwatkins4972

Жыл бұрын

Stay out of prison. If not...prepare for the consequences.

Amazing how Richard Arlen jumped from SFC to Lt. , and from gunner to pilot without predicate?

Excellent movie!

@gerry343

3 жыл бұрын

You're easily satisfied!

Please add more movies.

Good stuff.

This is a great movie channel, possibly one of the top 10. Pretty tired of any political comments, even in jest - that trigger outbursts. Keep it to yourselves or find another channel.

@edl617

3 жыл бұрын

My parents taught me decades ago that a Persons Politics needs to stay in there mind. Not coming out of there mouth

@PANCHOVILLAMATO

3 жыл бұрын

That SGT calling the soldiers "suckers" must be where Trump got the idea.. Don't YOU agree?

@redlinemando

3 жыл бұрын

@@PANCHOVILLAMATO Question..............Do trolls get paid by the hour or by the comment?

@PANCHOVILLAMATO

3 жыл бұрын

@@redlinemando Neither...Pretty sure it's by how many morons answer back...

Anybody else spot the Robert Mitchum cameo?

What did the guys grab of the table just before the bombing run.each person picked up one or two things?

God, Keith Richards is in this film. I knew he was old!!!!!!!!

@vgbourdon

3 жыл бұрын

LOL !!!

He were an aerial gunner he was.

19:10 "You have an excellent training record at Kelly, Davis." "Won't happen again, sir." ?????

Hmmmm no losers or cowards being talked about here just the story of heroes. We all know it is just a movie but it is the image of heroes

32:24 a jeep jumping is a jeo0p ...

As a result of WW2 the United States military loss was 291,557 in combat. Most of that were 18-25 years old. Lets hope that the Atomic Bomb is now a deterrent to WW 3

@josemoreno3334

3 жыл бұрын

So far so good.

@PANCHOVILLAMATO

3 жыл бұрын

That's nothing Trump will pass that on his own, with his lost war against the Covid-19 virus.

@goldgeologist5320

2 жыл бұрын

I probably exist due to the atomic bombing of Japan. My dad after fighting his way across the ETO, was getting ready to ship out to the invasion of Japan when the war ended.

@martianshoes

2 жыл бұрын

@Pancho Villa Your comment did not age well - Resident Biden did worse in 2021, even with vax & boosters…

@garyschultz7768

2 жыл бұрын

America's leadership is corrupt & exists only to make themselves rich.....trump was good but corruption destroyed his presidency....even election integrity prevented him from A 2nd term...

Chester Morris

1:04...blown up pix of the entire enemy flughaven!

So how does this guy Foxy go from Sergeant First Class to Master Sergeant at the 57:26 mark back to Sergeant First Class again?

@larzhillbot1443

4 жыл бұрын

only in hollywood lol

Since when does a bomber crew member report the position of enemy fighter aircraft as ' to my left'? I am fairly sure that is not the way they were trained to report aircraft positions in relation to their own aircraft!

@wesfelty4513

3 жыл бұрын

"Target, 1000 feet, at nine o'clock, closing fast", still in use

Was that Robert Mitchum at 38:20?

Okay I laughed at the GI reading the advertisement for visiting Japan during cherry blossom time. Did you know the cherry trees in Washington were donated to USA from the city of Hiroshima before the war? Rather ironic twist of fate.

We still should have smoking rooms in the hospital. Ah, those were the good old days. I told a judge I used tobacco and I was a republican an hated the "squad". I got off jury duty.

@richardc7721

4 жыл бұрын

@D Sullivan and that's how the country became so far left. Everyone is too busy making a living, except the left, they make time to forward their cause.

@TedBronson1918

4 жыл бұрын

@D Sullivan and that's why criminals get slaps on the wrist and good people get keel hauled over petty matters - good people won't be jurors and have the balls to say " No, I won't convict/acquit." Really, I wouldn't have been boasting about that. There are TWO Civic Duties - voting AND jury duty. Any idiot can cast a vote, but a jury requires more than that to give a fair/just verdict.

@nathanosgood4959

4 жыл бұрын

best wishes ahh, pretty much all the family in the Air Force. Remember my dad saying never trust a republican, looks like he was right. Over and over. Nice wee film. We were stationed a lot overseas and i still have pals in the various country’s we were stationed at. They are not to keen on this latest rich kid, so we’re all hoping we can get back to some sanity come the next election. Our father went back to Roosevelt and remembers presidents with brains. Well, Fingers crossed. Great country, let’s get it back to caring.

@TedBronson1918

4 жыл бұрын

@D Sullivan Sometimes I should lighten up. Reading back I see the humor, but the first time I missed it and went right to irked. My fault. I shouldn't comment when I'm tired. You did fine. Don't let my mini-spaz throw you.. Sorry about that.

@stuart8663

4 жыл бұрын

This is a great movie channel, possibly one of the top 10. Pretty tired of any political comments, even in jest - that trigger outbursts. Keep it to yourselves or find another channel.

I thought it was a good movie. 6/10

Robert Mitchum is in the movie. I love the old movies but I was very disappointed in the story line. Mst of the old movies are very enjoyable, this one was bad. Probably why I haven't seen it yet. No demand. MKLK

That Foxy

88,119 airmen died in WWII, 19,568 Total Marines died in WWII. Shocking total isn'it. Remember each bomber carried 10 crew. During the Polisk Raid fifty-three aircraft was lost - 550 aircrews lost

@europeon2wheels89

3 жыл бұрын

At least they died for something. Kinda pales beside the 58,000+ that were killed in Vietnam for nothing.

@robertwalker5521

Жыл бұрын

@@europeon2wheels89 ...military chiefs had a DETAILED list of 78 locations in N.Viet. if all were bombed with 48 hours from start to finish, the N. Viet's would have surrendered BUT, that a-hole who moved into the White House on 11/23/63 rejected the plan. He is in HELL, now

Robert Mitchum in a minor role.

Mmm Davis wen't all through gunnery school as one of 'foxy's' trainees then all of a sudden he got a commision and became a pilot. What gives or did I fall asleep and miss a massive part of the film?

@marhar2

2 жыл бұрын

That's in the directors cut :)

The story of two crazy kids in their 40s. 🤣

*UH...WHAT THE FUUUUUUCK was that!?!?!?* *Rear-gunner shoots the rudder off his OWN SHIP?* *This must be 'Front Page News' to the people at 'Douglas'...because that gun-mount WILL NOT ALLOW the M/G to transit the rear-empennage in which the gun would EVER 'line-up' that way* ( *Every gun-mount I've ever seen or heard-of ensures you can't fire at your own ship!* ) *A wounded man could easily keep firing in the heat of combat...or develop 'target-fixation' while firing on some plane and track the gun(s) right into the interior of a ship* *IT CAN'T HAPPEN!* ( *Although MANY instances of 'friendly-fire' can and did occur with heavy bombers in formation...a .50 cal. bullet could easily hit a 'friendly' several-thousand feet away and instantly kill anyone it hit* ) *In order to transit the gun while tracking...it must first 'jump the hump' in the transit-channels which causes the gun to rise-up slightly so fire can be maintained while tracking a target and at the same instant makes certain you cannot 'hit yourself' no matter what*

@johnsimpson6181

4 жыл бұрын

You are right, these type of safety devices were first used in WW1 aircraft.

@bestwishes5060

4 жыл бұрын

Why are you bold print yelling. It's a movie!

@gerrynightingale9045

4 жыл бұрын

@@bestwishes5060 *I write anyway I wish to...the idea of 'you don't approve' means nothing to me, nor your demand for 'explanations'*

So it's as easy as that to hold off infantry with a submachine gun.

Unrealistic that a guy who enlisted and a draftee end up so quickly as sergeant first class with one in charge of the other

@Ricu52

4 жыл бұрын

That's the nice part about movies, you can escape realism!

@josemoreno3334

3 жыл бұрын

That's Hollywood for you.

@watercloset99

3 жыл бұрын

It's a movie, you stupid idiot

@anthonyglass170

3 жыл бұрын

One of the incentives of volunteering for Aerial Gunner School was promotion to NCO on graduation, with top graduates often staying on as instructors with rapid promotion.

Quit acting like a couple of Schoolgirls ? Doesn't he mean Schoolboys ?

Great movie. So sad binden is running our country into the ground

@seymourskinner2533

Жыл бұрын

1 in 5000 Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue

How did a gunnery sargent suddenly become a pilot ? i guess only in hollywood lol

@anthonyglass170

3 жыл бұрын

If you pay attention to the movie,he mentions that he finished up pilot training at Kelly and wanted to go to gunnery school,look at his uniform when he reports in to Harlingen,he is wearing Pilot's wings (he is a SGT Pilot--later he is commissioned) ALL bomber crew positions were supposed to go to Gunnery school after specialty training ,except pilots (optional ) this meant Navigators,Bombardiers, Radiomen, etc

Robert Mitchum??? Well, it was fair as a movie, with a clumsy and useless romance thrown in. History is more important here than acting though. TY.