I doubt they paid Mandy Moore for a 2 minute cameo sending the hero off to war...FJAG said:...
My biggest fear is that like the movie "Pearl Harbor" there will be plot lines/arcs woven into the story which will undermine the real story. With luck, maybe the producers of this one have learned from "Pearl Harbor". My bet is that they won't have.
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garb811 said:I doubt they paid Mandy Moore for a 2 minute cameo sending the hero off to war...
FJAG said:Nor Nick Jonas as an Aviation Machinist Mate; nor Jake Manley as (presumably) Mandy Moore's character's fighter pilot husband. :facepalm:
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FSTO said:I'm thinking he's a pilot of a Dauntless dive bomber and not a Wildcat fighter pilot. Could he be portraying LCdr Wade McClusky or Cdr Max Leslie?
FJAG said:Nor Nick Jonas as an Aviation Machinist Mate;
Blackadder1916 said:His character is likely based on "Aviation Machinist Mate Bruno Gaido" who was radioman-gunner in the Scouting Six SBD piloted by Ensign Frank O’Flaherty, one of 28 planes that dive-bombed the Japanese carrier IJN Kaga. It didn't make it back to Enterprise. It was reported that O'Flaherty and Gaido were picked up by the Japanese, interrogated under torture and later killed by throwing them weighted into the sea.
US Navy First Class Aviation Machinist Mate. Gaido was serving on the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S Enterprise in the Pacific Ocean after the attack at Pearl Harbor. On February 1, 1942, in the Central Pacific near the Marshall Island five Japanese bombers attacked the Enterprise. After the five dropped their bombs four sped away, but the fifth plane was so badly damaged it was unable to attempt to return to it's base. The Japanese pilot elected to crash his plane into the carrier and inflict as much damage as possible. Although the anti aircraft fire at the enemy plane was intense the plane continued it's descent towards the carrier. It was then that Gaido realized the imminent danger the ship was in and jumped into a Scout Bomber Dauntless dive-bomber parked on the flight deck, and manned the .30 caliber machine gun. Gaido's relentless fire at the bomber eventually caused the plane to spin at a ninety degree angle, causing it's wing to slice in half the Scout Bomber Dauntless Dive-Bomber Gaido was firing from. Gaido's shipmates later said that it was Gaido's fire that brought the plane down, thus potentially saving the Enterprise from serious damage. Several months later during the Battle of Midway Gaido was the gunner in Ensign O'Flaherty's Dauntless. The Dauntless ran out of gas after the gas tanks were hit by enemy fire and O'Flaherty had to ditch the plane in the Ocean. Although O'Flaherty and Gaido were able to safely ditch the plane and get into a life raft, they were captured by the Japanese. While prisoners they were interrogated and tortured. After two weeks as prisoners they were bound with ropes, to which weighted fuel cans were tied and thrown from the destroyer into the ocean and drowned. Gaido was featured prominently in the television series "Battle 360" and his efforts in both battles were well documented. Gaido was the first inductee into the Enlisted Combat Aircrew Roll of Honor in 1996.
Halifax Tar said:At least Paul Gross isn't making their "war" movies....
Halifax Tar said:At least Paul Gross isn't making their "war" movies....
Blackadder1916 said:His character is likely based on "Aviation Machinist Mate Bruno Gaido" who was radioman-gunner in the Scouting Six SBD piloted by Ensign Frank O’Flaherty, one of 28 planes that dive-bombed the Japanese carrier IJN Kaga. It didn't make it back to Enterprise. It was reported that O'Flaherty and Gaido were picked up by the Japanese, interrogated under torture and later killed by throwing them weighted into the sea.
Cloud Cover said:Not questioning the brutality of what happened to him, but I do wonder how this knowledge of the circumstances of this mans fate was discovered?