To a Yank, the article headline is a bit confusing. “Pot Plants” has a completely different meaning on this side of The Pond.

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Jack Windsor, I believe that was during the filming of “Tora! Tora! Tora!” I’ve never seen “The War Lover, ” was there a crash-landing in that one too? Of course, the B-17 belly-landing in “12 O’clock High” was intentional and carefully planned ahead of time. The shot was re-used in “The Thousand Plane Raid,” could it have been used in “War Lover” as well?

“We had been invited to one of Orkney’s biggest World War 2 airfields by William Shearer, a member of A.R.G.O.S (THE Aircraft Recovery Group Orkney and Shetland) to have a scout around to see if we could come up with War Memorabilia and other such stuff that might have been dropped or buried in the past.”

Wait, there’s an Aircraft Recovery Group that actually recovers aircraft? Somebody might want to mention this to TIGHAR.

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I like film critic Roger Ebert’s assessment: “a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality.”

Begging your pardon, but I don’t think that’s a Jill. It looks to me more like a C6N Saiun (Myrt) long-range recon plane. That aft part of the canopy gives it away. Great 3D model!

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