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Monday, January 16, 2023
Army Air Corps cartoon training film: Gunnery on the B-29
This is surprisingly good - both the script and the video. I had never known how the B-29 robot gun turrets worked and this explains the whole thing in an entertaining manner.
Wish they had showed is films like that. All they ever showed us were old Korean War doctors sawing off soldiers frozen arms and legs. No quite fun to watch.
When my dad got so he couldn't drive so well, I would go with him to his squaddron's yearly reunions. They were part of the 12th Army Air Force and were quick to tell you there was no such thing as the Army Air Corps.
I believe that was Mel Blanc, though not credited in this film. Interesting that they chose cartoons to educate the military, especially since cartoons took a lot of work back then. I didn't realize that B-29s had to deal with fighters as much as they did, scoring lots of kills, so the system worked. Reading about it on the internet, they removed all but the tailguns on the Enola Gay for its mission to lighten it up.
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"From the days when Hollywood was on our side."
That is so depressing....
Mel Blanc???
Wish they had showed is films like that. All they ever showed us were old Korean War doctors sawing off soldiers frozen arms and legs. No quite fun to watch.
When my dad got so he couldn't drive so well, I would go with him to his squaddron's yearly reunions. They were part of the 12th Army Air Force and were quick to tell you there was no such thing as the Army Air Corps.
I think that IS Mel Blanc!
I believe that was Mel Blanc, though not credited in this film. Interesting that they chose cartoons to educate the military, especially since cartoons took a lot of work back then. I didn't realize that B-29s had to deal with fighters as much as they did, scoring lots of kills, so the system worked. Reading about it on the internet, they removed all but the tailguns on the Enola Gay for its mission to lighten it up.
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