Although not true too life... It is a great movie. If all "war Movies" showed the way it really was... no one will watch them. I feel the film is really about the HERROES that served aboard the Memphis Bell. Living to fly 25 complete missions was a feat upon itself. Along with films like this and "The Battle Of Britan" showed what was involved in doing their "jobs". In the "modern era" of war you do not see as much of the "human instinct of fight or flight". The pilots in World Wars I and II had to do battle by the seat of their pants and get to those battles by dead reckoning. More of a "THE ART OF WAR" as opposed to technical war (ie push button warfare) When a film is degraded by goofs and some impossible situations portrayed in that film, after all a movie is a work of "ART" and will never portray as it really was. In the film "The Longest Day" some people I talked to about say "it was done in B&W soo it was not that great".
