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- The 354th Fighter Group
- Thunderbolt!
- Catapulting on a Carrier
- Bombers over North Africa
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Four Features for May 2008
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- Exclusive production.
- Rare color film of the legendary 354 Fighter Group, with over 700 Kills, the highest scoring American unit in Europe. You'll see great aces like G.T.Eagleston and B.W. Carr at work and at play in their newly captured base in Germany in Spring, 1945, only a few months before war's end. Nice scenes with the group's well known P-51Ds too, including "Margie Maru" and "Angel's Playmate." This was the first group to fly P-51s in the ETO. They were known as the "Mustang Pioneers." Amazing color gun camera film!
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- Now on Sale
- Own your own full screen copy of "The 354th Fighter Group"
- on our P-51 DVD which also includes
- * Flight Characteristics of the P-51
- * A Day with the A-36s Color
- * Air Attacks Against Italy
- * 130 page P-51 pilot's manual
- * Luftwaffe Finis! New Luftwaffe leaders fall into Allied hands -- Galland, Goering, Rudel & more Color
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- Thunderbolt! A Drive-In favorite
- (1943, COLOR 45:00) x
This exciting film chronicles the exploits of the P-47 Thunderbolt pilots of the "Fighting Gamecocks" of the 65th Fighter squadron, 57th Fighter Group. Based on the island of Corsica off the northwest coast of the Italian boot, they flew from behind the enemy's flank. As part of "Operation Strangle," they continuously attacked highways, bridges, ammo dumps, railroads and just about anything that moved to choke off the flow of supplies to the Axis front line. This film not only features one-of-a-kind P-47 combat footage, it also shows day-to-day life on a MTO forward air base, including vintage pilot slang.
"This has to be finest combination of great photography, a hard bitten, realistic script, stirring music, powerful narration and full bore Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59W Double Wasp radial engine roar I have seen or heard in a World War II documentary. Truly memorable and highly recommended." Zeno
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- The Fighter Fans Favorite -- Save $50 off
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- Small World War II aircraft carriers depended on their catapults. This unique film offers a rare look (in color) at how US Navy carrier crews were trained to operate hydraulic catapults to launch aircraft, even from very short decks.
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- As a bonus, you'll see GM FM-1 "Wildcats" up close, handled expertly on the tiny deck of a CVE "jeep" escort carrier. Built on merchant men hulls, the 78 jeeps were pressed into service for a variety of rolls, including anti submarine war in the Atlantic and covering amphibious landings in the Pacific, Their greatest moment came on Oct. 35, 1944, in the battle of Samar in the Philippines, when the CVEs of Task Group 77.4 (Task units "Taffy 1, 2, 4") launched a furious attack on Adm. Kurita's overwhelming task force and caused it to retreat. The CVE St Lo was lost and several others were heavily damaged, but the landing at Leyte was successfully protected.
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- Catapulting on a Carrier
- is available full screen on our
- Fighting Lady DVD
- which also includes Flight Deck Crews:
- "Landing & Re-spotting Aircraft" and
- a complete Grumman F4F/FM2 Pilot's manual
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- This is a rare look at early war US Air Operations in North Africa. B-25 and B-17 bombers of the 321st and 97th Bomb Group help cut off Rommel's retreat from Tunisia. Part of the "North West African Strategic Air Force," these groups were initially tasked with preventing men and material from reaching the Afrika Korps, and later with preventing them from escaping.
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- The missions for the day of this film were to strike from bases in Algeria at the junction at Manouba, near Tunis, and the air field at Sidi Ahmed, near Bizerte, where a large number of extremely valuable JU 52 transports were based, a key element in German evacuation plans. (Ironically, the 321st would soon occupy Sidi Ahmed as their new base for the Sicilian campaign.) The film features an introduction by the theater commander, then 4 star General, Dwight Eisenhower and an afterword by Air Operations Commanding General "Jimmy" Doolittle.
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- Perhaps most memorably, this film is notable for it's extended "up close and personal" look at the men of the 97th & 321st BGs. You'll see real pre mission and after action debriefing sessions with the men who flew them, including a B-17 crew's account of an FW 190 shoot down and the water ditching of a heavily damaged B-25.
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- * Medal of Honor
- Ploesti August 1, 1943
- * Air Siege Ploesti
- March to August 1944
- * Bombers Over North Africa
- * Target Tokyo
- * Conquest by Air
- * Mission Accomplished:
- The Story of the Flying Fortress
- * Doolittle Strikes Japan
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- Matinee Features Change Every Month-
- See more exciting World War II aviation documentaries at Zeno's Flight Shop
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- Buy the B-29 DVD, get the Clark Gable's "Combat America" DVD FREE
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- This collection of seven classics films on two DVDs spans the the globe, from rugged B-17 missions over Northern Europe to silver B-29 Superfortresses raiding the Empire of Japan. Most are in color.You save $16.95-
- Zeno's Warbird DVDs make memorable gifts!
- You'll find many more fine World War II Aviation feature documentaries at our video store on affordable DVD, in including "Thunderbolt!" (P-47s in action over Italy) "Target for Tonight" (an RAF night bomber attack), "Target for Today" all aspects of a massive Eighth Air Force bomber raid on Germany) and more. And all of our WWII aircraft pilot training videos are now on DVD too, including pilot's manuals for almost every aircraft .
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