WAR MOVIES Quiz......................

Correct TA152. It's your turn.

 

Thanks Martin !! I just took a wild guess from the merchant part of your post.

In the movie "The War Lover", What was Steve McQueens B-17's name. The one he flew into the White Cliffs of Dover at the end of the movie.

 

I just watched a video of 'The War Lover' last weekend - it's 'THE BODY' !

 

Well that did not last long !!
Found this list of survivors that may interest you. Did'nt know there were so many left.

http://www.strategyzoneonline.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-14368.html

 

Not only that, but I've got a piece of B-17F 42-5852 sitting here on my desk....

OK - next question. Staying with 'The War Lover', there's a familiar scene of a B-17 doing a belly-landing right in front the camera ( and taking out a bell-tent as it does so ). Familiar, because it's the very same crash scene lifted from 'Twelve O'Clock High'.

Which famous stunt pilot was at the controls ?

 

I will take anouther wild guess, Paul Manz of Flight of the Phoenix fame and misfortune ??

 

Not such a wild guess at all, Ta ! It was indeed the legendary and much-lamented Paul Mantz, belly-landing a radiation-contaminated QB-17G right in front of the cameras in the days before CGI.....

All yours.....

 

Can't think of a hard one off hand so an easy one.

What country was Catch 22 filmed in with all the B-25s.

 

Please could you repeat the question in other words? I don't get it.

 

Was it Guaymas, Mexico ?

 

Mexico is correct.

Nice to see you again KnightMove. I guess the movie did not make it to your part of the world. Say hello and get a new metal for your collection.

The movie was called "Catch 22" and had lots of old B-25 Bombers flying in it. It was more of an anti-war movie from the early 70's.

 

I'll stick with 'Catch-22' - the production was marred by a tragic accident which claimed the life of one of the movie world's most skilled air-to-air cameramen.

His most famous work is contained in 'The Battle of Britain'. Who was he ?

 

If I were guessing again I would say Paul Manz, but since I already used him in anouther answer I will have to ask for some hints.

 

He was British, his surname is the same as a famous bimbo page-3 model, and the answer can be found with dexterous internet searching....

 

We don't have page 3 bimbos over here.
But searching the internet I found this guy missing a part of a leg from anouther film... John Jordon.

 

You certainly deserve this one, Ta !

Yes, John Jordan, tragically killed over the Gulf of Mexico filming 'Catch-22'.....

 

A Grumman Duck painted in Royal Navy colors (sorta), played a leading role in this movie.
Name the movie.

 

Wasn't 'Murphy's War', by any chance...?

 

We seem to be a two man quiz here lately !
Over to you, if you have any thing left.

 

OK - a nice easy one...which aircraft featured in 'The Dam Busters' can be seen today at the RAF Museum at Hendon ; the last complete survivor of its aircraft type ?