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I like "The Battle of the Bulge' too, mate. I've seen it a million times and emjoy it every time. Same with 'Battle of Midway' which. incidentally had a bit of romance and inter-personal crud in the plot.

He could easily have got back to Peral. The flight (or voyage from England to the east coast of the US was made by thousands of troops and civilians in relative safety, both ways. I have heard that, not one American soldier was lost on the way over (to action), out of the half million or so that went.
then the flight from the US wset coast to Hawaii would be very safe. It was all outside Japanese held territory.
It would have been more dangerous for Macarthur when he flew around Australia and New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.

They were apparently fighter pilots, as well as bomber pilots, who flew the Doolittle raid (I'm skeptical about the fact that any of them were the same ones involved in getting P40's up and into the fight at Pearl though...... ). I think the B25 was considered to be a very good 'ground attack' ship, which I suppose, makes it kind a semi "bomber/very big fighter" (sort of like an oversized Bf110............lol). 

As for surviving the crash. I suppose it's possible (that's all it has to be for Hollywood to use it..........lol).
If he hit the water at the right angle so as not to break the plane up too much, it would be similar to ditching, albeit a little too fast!

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I remember it was a pretty hard hit, too.........

But the Producers said he has to survive, so he survived!.................lol

Yeah a hard crash but i once heard it did happen that way. couple planes were completely destroyed, but most of them crash landed safetly. The Japanese managed to capture the crew of just one B-25. The crew was executed. Doolittle made his way into China and the crews met him there.

I've not seen any of those so I can't comment but my worst war film award goes to "Big Red One"

EVERY tank, APC and SPG in the damn thing is the same Sherman, they never even bother changing the paint job.

Will

I remember seeing a pretty pathetic War movie a few tears ago. I don't know the name. Maybe someone can help if I give the general plot.

On the American side we have Doug McClure flying a P40. His partner is shot down in the North African desert and he lands to pick him up. Fior some reason they can't take off again.
They are pursued by a crazy German Tank Officer in a Panzer Mk 2 or 3. I think the German is played by Richard Basehart.
McClure and his mate are running away from the tank by 'taxiing' the P40 until it overheats, then they stop and wait fro it to cool down and then go again.
They prop up the tail of the plane so the guns are aiming at the tank a couple of times but they don't stop them.
That's the guts of it.
I remember it being very B grade, and ridiculous.

I think I'll go to Basehart' or McClure's site and see if I can see it listed in their 'Movie list'

Yes they definitley used P40's in Africa.

US, British and Australians all flew them in Africa.
They were very well suited to the desert campaign.

There are 'Desert" paint jobs available for CFS1 & 2. 

hey,that movie was a fun movie and quite funny. just remember those japanese guys trying to get the compass out of this american guy...

Pearl harbor sucked to put it nicely! I think they should burn the film and make a movie that actually portrays the event well! A pearl harbor survivor I know said it was the worst movie he had ever seen (thats pretty bad!).