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Flyboys
2006 · Film · 138 min
Directed by Tony Bill
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Instead of reading historical/biographical fiction, why not read the real thing? For example, read "Stuka Pilot" by Rudel. It's an account of fighting in WW2 that would be dismissed as ridiculous if it was a Hollywood movie, but it is all real and documented.
Another is "Reach for the Sky" by Bader. Chuck Yeager's biography is also a treat.
Then watch that absurd "Flyboys" Hollywood fiction. What a piece of trash in comparison.
On a side note - are there any other people that find politically correct modern (US? Western?) pop culture where every group of people has to contain all the notable minorities - offensive and racist?
I remember watching the Flyboys - and contemplating if the same movie could be made about any other WW1 squadron where there were no black pilots.