First Red Tail review..Told ya!

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Originally Posted by ElAurens

Anyone who has the slightest knowledge of WW2 aviation knew this movie was going to be bad, on many levels.

Correct. I live in Vegas and wish they would have taken wagers on Redtails being Crap.

And just for the sake of historical accuracy...

The 99th. lost 25 B17s that they were escorting, they did not have a perfect record in this regard, unlike the mythology that has built up around them.

Correct. The myth that "they never lost an escorted Bomber" lasted for six decades...Still, I was surprised that the trailer for Redtails didn't repeat that myth.

Just once I'd like to see a film about WW2 aviation that was as good as Das Boot, and I don't really care which side it would be about.

See the Czech movie "Dark Blue World" about Czechs in RAF in BoB.