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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 $2.00
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 $2.00
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. $2.00
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 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.$10.00
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 $2.005
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 $2.00
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$2.00
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$2.00
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
HISTORY OF RIGID AIRSHIP - VHS produced by EAA Aviation Foundation. 41 minutes $2.00
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 $2.00
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
$2.00


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