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TitleContentsRunning TimePrice
DAMBUSTERS RAID - DVD see photo, Documentary 48 minutes $9.95
DAWN PATROL - DVD see photo, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, WW I British flyboys 103 minutes $13.00
DESTINATION TOKYO - VHS see photo, offbeat casting of Cary Grant as a submarine captain pays off in this tense WWII underwater picture; he ably trades in his sophistication for the sweaty close quarters of an action movie, 2 hrs 16 min $7.50
DIVE BOMBER (Errol Flynn & Fred MacMurray) - VHS made in the days leading up to the U.S. entering WW II, explores the life & duty of a military flight surgeon. DVD available - $12.95 2 hrs 10 minutes $7.50
DOG FIGHTS - LONG ODDS - DVD History Channel - Battle of the Coral Sea (1942): Swede Vejtasa (SBD) vs. 3 Zeroes; Bougainville (1942): Jay Zeamer (B-17) vs. 17 Zeroes; Viet Nam (1967) Leo Thorsness (F-105) vs. Mig-17s 50 minutes $10.95
DOG FIGHTS - GREATEST BATTLES - DVD History Channel - France (1918): Rickenbacker (Spad) vs. Fokker D.VIIs; Bomber Escort, Europe (1944): Bud Anderson (P-51) vs. Bf-109s; Korea (1952): Boots Blesse (F-86 vs. Mig 15s; Viet Nam (1967): Cunningham & Driscoll (F-4) vs Mig 17s. 100 minutes $10.95
DORNIER Do-335 - VHSsee photo, original German historical films, test-flight footage, development & flight performance. 30 minutes$4.50
DUXFORD AIR MUSEUM - VHSsee photo, personal tour of one of the great air museum, 90 minutes$12.95
FIGHTER ACES OF WORLD WAR II - VHSsee photo, four aces of the 357th FG, see gun-camera footage, remembrances by Maj. Richard Peterson, Capt. William O'Brian, Col. Clarence Anderson, Gen. Thomas Hayes, approx. 50 min. $4.50
FIGHTING 51st - KOREA - DVDsee photo, DVD, covers 1950 to 1953, John Ford documentary, 51st Fighter Wing, Dogfights, Return from Mig Alley, Gabreski becomes a jet ace, 1 hr. 57 min. $28.95
FIGHTING LADY, THE - DVD Documentary -Carrier is the Yorktown (CV-10) from launching through the mid-1944s. Actual WW II color footage. Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary in 1944. 60 minutes $4.50
FIGHTING SQUADRON (1948) & ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939)- VHS TNT (recorded with commercials) Fighter Squadron stars Edmond O'Brien & Robert Stack. Only Angels Have Wings stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess & Rita Hayworth. 4 hrs 19 minutes $2.00
FIRST CAPITAL AIRLINE VISCOUNT -VHSrecords the delivery of the first Capital Airline Viscount, which was not a success story, 48 mins $12.95
FIRST FLATTOPS - DVDsee photo, First U.S. aircraft carriers CV-1 to CV-4, 2 DVD collection chronicles the history of the U.S. carrier airpower through the first four carriers, the experimental Langley, Lexington & Saratoga with the smaller Ranger. Includes the original 42 documentary on the development. 7 hrs.$17.95
FLIGHT OF THE JUNE BUG - VHSdemonstrates lifting qualities of very early flyers up to the Fokker D.VII, original footage taken in upstate N.Y, 38 mins $14.95
FLYBOYS - DVD Layfette Escradille, America's first fighter pilots. 139 minutes $14.95
FLYING CARRIERS - VHS see photo, Covers the 1930's, including metalclads, ZRS program an later Zeppelins. USS Akron and USS Macon's construction and operations with hook-on aircraft are emphasized. LZ-129 and LZ-130 are included. The most astounding chapter in aeronautic history, 2 hrs $14.95
FLYING IRISHMAN - VHS life & times of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who said he was flying across country. He went on to fly across the Atlantic in an unauthorized trip to Ireland. 70 minutes $17.95
FLYING LEATHERNECKS / THEY WERE EXPENDABLE - DVDsee photo, They Were Expendable (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne & Donna Reed/ Flying Leathernecks (John Wayne & Robert Ryan) 237 minutes $15.00
FORGOTTEN WAR- KOREA - VHSsee photo, history of the Korean War. 5 hrs$4.50
GEE BEE AIRPLANES - VHS see photo, moments past & present of the Gee Bee, movie footage of the original Gee Bee's, examines the aircraft & the personalities who built & flew them, rare footage shows the 1931 Gee Bee Z & the 1932 R-1 and R-2 in action as well as other products of the Granville Brothers, such as their early biplanes, exclusive interviews with Bob Granville, Ed Granville, Pete Miller, Bob Hall & Maude Tait 60 minutes$19.95
GO FOR BROKE (442nd) - VHS see photo, exploits of the 442, the first all-Nisei (Japanese- American) Regimental combat team in WWII. In early 1942, all the Japanese- Americans in California, Seattle, Oregon and Hawaii were uprooted from their homes and put into camps. All the volunteers were from the 10 internment camps throughout the western states, Van Johnson is used as the "white man" foil, to show how the rest of the country looked at the Japanese-American, he starts off as a bigot, but as he begins to understand & respect his troops, he becomes one of them 90 minutes$4.50
GREAT ESCAPE - VHS 1963, Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, allied POWs plot massive escape from a Nazi prison camp (based on a true story). 172 minutes$4.50
THE GREAT ESCAPE - DVD , see photo, Stalag Luft III, finest escape team in 1943 portrayed by Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson & James Coburn, includes a documentary on making the film, 172 minutes. $10.95
THE GREAT WAR WW I - DVD - 2 Disc Set , prelude to Battle, Mons to Somme, air & sea battles. 270 minutes. $14.95
GUNG HO - VHS 1943, Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, Rod Cameron, WW 2 action film, 88 minutes$4.50
HINDENBURG - VHS
see photo, staring George C. Scott & Anne Bancroft, 1937 airship disaster, includes newsreel footage, earned special Oscar for visual & sound effects. 125 minutes $7.50
HISTORY OF RIGID AIRSHIP - VHS
produced by EAA Aviation Foundation. 41 minutes $9.95
HUNTERS IN THE SKY - VHS
see photo, fighter aces of WW II, 13 episodes in one VHS, shot on locations in UK, Germany, Japan, Soviet Union, it draws up on the film & photo archives of the Dept. of Defense, Imperial War Museum, Soviet National Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Grumman Corp. and other sources. 360 minutes $17.50
INTERVIEW WITH DICK BECKER - DVD
2 hour interview as he relates his early days as a pre-WW II sailor who witnessed Pearl Harbor, became a naval aviator, Thompson Trophy race pilot. He participated in the home-built movement. Interview is liberally illustrated with pictures & air race film (1947-1949) 2 hrs. $10.95
ISLAND IN THE SKY (John Wayne) - VHS
written by Ernest Gann, Gann keeps you on the edge of your seat as Pilots of the WWII Aircraft Ferry Service search for one of their own that has strayed off course on the way to England. The search continues for the lost and presumed downed plane in the Canadian north
$7.50


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