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I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
2010-05-23
Posted by:Nimble Spemble

#11  Dennis the Pennis to Tom Hanks:

"Mr Hanks, Mr Hanks!!!!"
"I think Apollo 13 is the ultimate space-movie!!"
"Yes, absolutly no atmossphere what so ever!!"

Tom Hanks exits.
Posted by: Black Bart Angoluck3659   2010-05-23 18:38  

#10  It's from Apollo 13. I remember because it's the last movie I saw in a theater.
Posted by: tu3031   2010-05-23 13:28  

#9  Mental block. I know that music. What is it?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-05-23 13:02  

#8  Nice video! Thirty seconds over Tokyo is a fairly mundane war movie but the takeoff scene is great - no music except the rising crescendo of engine noise. According to my dad, folks in the theaters stood up to cheer.
Posted by: PBMcL   2010-05-23 12:40  

#7  Background. There's eight of them left.

Also responsible for the worst casting job in Hollywood history. Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Doolittle in "Pearl Harbor"
Posted by: tu3031   2010-05-23 12:03  

#6  cool video. Man, that was a quick, and short, takeoff
Posted by: Frank G   2010-05-23 11:59  

#5  ...I defy anyone who knows the story of the Raid to watch that video without getting a lump in their throat...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2010-05-23 11:43  

#4  And of course the pictures of the Japanese crewmen of that vessel are added for happy. Since of course, there wern't any.
Posted by: Shipman   2010-05-23 11:37  

#3  Here: No sound. Note the killing of the patrol boat early on.



Also FLAPS FTW
Posted by: Shipman   2010-05-23 11:31  

#2  One of those aircraft are an old gate guard from Eglin Main.
Posted by: Shipman   2010-05-23 11:24  

#1  This was the first strike on the Japanese homeland. Doolittle received the MOH for leading this mission. Brave men.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-05-23 09:33  

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