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le :mardi 06 mai 2008 a 19h14


Zeno=92s Warbird Video Drive-In May 2008 Newsletter

Bonjours Mes Amis!

You=92re invited to drop by Zeno=92s Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com
and sample this month=92s outstanding lineup of World War 2 plane videos
playing live online.

As always, every film on our web site is showing for free.

This month =93At the Matinee,=94 you=92ll see =93354th Fighter Group Color
Scrapbook,=93 featuring top P-51 aces in living color;
=93Thunderbolt=94 (color) the rock =91em sock =91em P-47 fighter/bomber
classic; =94Catapulting on a World War II carrier,=94 (color) and =93Bombers=

over North Africa,=94 where B-17s and B-25s of the 97th & 321st BGs
strike the retreating Afrika Korps..
354th Fighter Group Color Scrapbook
film of the legendary 354 Fighter Group, with over 700 Kills, the
highest scoring American unit in Europe. You=92ll see great aces like G.
T. Eagleston and the amazing B.W. Carr at work and at play in their
newly captured base in Germany in Spring, 1945. Nice scenes with the
group=92s well known P-51Ds too, including =93Margie Maru=94 and =93Angel=92=
s
Playmate.=94 This was the first group to fly P-51s in the ETO, so they
were known as =93the Mustang Pioneers.=94

Thunderbolt! A Drive-In favorite! This exciting film chronicles the
exploits of the P-47 Thunderbolt pilots of the =93Fighting Gamecocks,
65th Fighter squadron, 57th Fighter Group. Based on the island of
Corsica off the northwest coast of the Italian boot, they flew from
behind the enemy=92s flank. As part of =93Operation Strangle,=94 they
attacked highways, bridges, ammo dumps, railroads and just about
anything that moved. This film not only features one-of-a-kind P-47
combat footage, it also shows day-to-day life on a MTO forward
airbase, including vintage pilot slang. This has to be finest
combination of great photography, a hard bitten, realistic script,
stirring music, powerful narration and full bore Pratt & Whitney
R-2800-59W Double Wasp radial engine roar I have seen or heard in a
World War II documentary. Truly memorable and highly recommended.

Catapulting on a World War II Carrier Small World War II aircraft
carriers depended on their catapults. This unique film offers shows
how (in color) US Navy carrier crews were trained to operate hydraulic
catapults to launch aircraft, even from very short decks. As a bonus,
you'll see GM FM-1 "Wildcats" up close, handled expertly on the tiny
deck of a CVE "jeep" escort carrier. Built on merchantmen hulls, the
78 jeeps were pressed into service in a variety of rolls, including
anti-submarine warfare in the Atlantic and covering amphibious
landings in the Pacific. Their greatest moment came on Oct. 30, 1944,
in the battle of Samar in the Philippines, when the little CVEs of
Task Group 77.4 (Task units "Taffy 1, 2, 4") launched a furious attack
on Adm. Kurita's powerful task force and caused it to retreat. The CVE
St Lo was lost and several others were heavily damaged, but the
landing at Leyte was successfully protected.

Bombers Over North Africa This is a rare look at early war US Air
Operations in North Africa. B-25 and B-17 bombers of the 321st and
97th Bomb Group help cut off Rommel=92s retreat from Tunisia. Part of
the =93North West African Strategic Air Force,=94 these groups were
initially tasked with preventing men and material from reaching the
Afrika Korps, and later with preventing them from escaping. The
missions for the day of this film were to strike from bases in Algeria
at the junction at Manouba and the air field at Sidi Ahmed, where a
large number of JU 52 transports were based, a vital element in German
evacuation plans. This film is notable for it=92s =93up close and
personal=94 look at the aircrews. You=92ll see real pre-mission and after
action debriefing sessions with the men who flew them, including one
B-17 crew=92s account of an FW 190 shoot down and the water ditching of
a heavily damaged B-25.

If you haven=92t stopped by Zeno=92s Drive-In before, we also feature
1940-45 vintage WWII Army & Navy films and pilot=92s manuals on how to
fly the F4U, F6F, P-38, P-39, P-40, P-47, P-51, P-61, TBF/TBM, AT-6/
SNJ, B-17, B-24, B-25, A-20, A-26, B-26, B-29, and Stearman N2S .
Alert! =96 Alert! There=92s just been an F-86 sighted over Zeno=92s Drive-
In!

That=92s over 14 hours of rockin=92 World War II props for free viewing
over the Internet!

Zeno

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