Talk:Strategic Air Command (film)

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Contents 1 Stewart's WWII experience 2 Fair use rationale for Image:Stategic Air Command (film).jpg 3 Stewart and B-47 4 Women

[edit] Stewart's WWII experience

This article is about the film Strategic Air Command, and as a film, it is relevent to talk of the the creation of the film including any experince that contributed to the actors' perfomances.

That being said, I think it is within the scope of the article to provide links to the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator as aircraft that Stewart flew in real life. True, he was an instructor pilot on the B-17, and his twenty combat missions were flown only in a B-24. However, if you think of it, this film represents a fork in the road of Stewart's life that he could have taken. It would have been possible for him to re-enter the Air Force, and fly B-36's and eventually the B-47.

I wonder if anyone can find any proof that Stewart might have actually had a B-36 joy ride with LeMay prior to creating the film. Suppose LeMay tried to recruit Stewart and Stewart propsed making the film. Or, suppose LeMay had the original idea for Stewart to make the film to boost USAAF recruitment? If such a thing happened, it should go into the article, because it would have been the genesis of the movie. And considering LeMay's attitudes, it may explain June Allyson's one-dimentional dialog.

I disagree with Buckboard's deleting links to the B-17 and B-24, as a mater of convience of the reader, this may be the first article where he learns of it. Leaving the links in will enrich the experience. --Woolhiser 20:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

On that basis I agree with you and will restore the links. I wasn't thinking encyclopedically and you were. Thanx.--Buckboard 09:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, hey not too shabby for my first week on the 'job' huh? I appreciate how quickly these disagreements can get resolved. I hope to bump into your edits more often, because I certainly learned some things - things that I can share with my dad who is also interested in films and WWII. --Woolhiser 12:17, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Stategic Air Command (film).jpg

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BetacommandBot 05:03, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

It will be fixed, silly bot. Bzuk 17:13, 29 September 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Stewart and B-47

I have read ('ll have to go through mags to find the exact source I saw) that Jimmy Stewart became qualified on the B-47 after making the film. He was in the Reserves or Air Guard at the time. ANyone have a redily-accessible reliable source on this? It can probably be worked in with the rest of his piloting info. - BillCJ (talk) 04:19, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Women

The only scene where women in uniform are seen comes in the scene where Stewart recruits "Ike", Alex Nicol, for his crew outside the squadron Hq. Two women can be seen walking, albeit slightly out of focus, behind our stars. They are clearly wearing summer uniforms.--Phyllis1753 (talk) 01:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

That's pretty cool. Good catch as well. I guess I was too taken by the "Oh no! Don't make it a career! Oh Boo! Who! Who!!" wife of his. Thanks for the corection! -OberRanks (talk) 01:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

And who can forget June Allyson's over the top hysteria in front of Frank Lovejoy (Hawks), holding her head as if it would blow off. Oh yes, this is my all-time favorite airplane movie --Phyllis1753 (talk) 01:53, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, nice catch I didn’t even realize it as well. Great correction.--DavidD4scnrt (talk) 06:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Regrettably, that's all there was; just those one or two seconds. I have the tape of it so I've seen the movie a fair number of times. The movie is still lily-white and 99% male. Such were the mores of those days.--Phyllis1753 (talk) 14:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)