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| Subject: RE: The Flying Missile 1950 Thanks, I'll try and watch it a little later. Some trivia about the movie: The guided missiles are U.S. Navy's KGW-1 missiles, later redesignated LTV-N-2, developed from V-1 Buzz Bombs created by the Germans in WWII. They may have been used in the manner shown in the movie for Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan to end WWII. Glenn Ford's leading lady, Swedish-born actress Viveca Lindfors, had a long and distinguished career in Hollywood. In 1948, just two years before this modest Columbia production, she co-starred with Errol Flynn as the queen of Spain in The Adventures of Don Juan. In the summer of 1945, for the first time in U.S. submarine warfare, USS Barb (SS220) successfully employed rockets against the Japanese home islands. Excluding signaling devices, this very likely was the first rocket launch from a submarine. Also the only goof the movie experts surprisingly pointed out was: After finally abandoning his canes and braces, Cmdr. Talbot, on the first Test Mission, has toured the submarine and tells the Admiral "it's good to walk through the ship again, Sir". A submariner would not have referred to a submarine as a "ship", rather, he would have called her "the boat". Edited by Gil 2025-04-27 2:35 PM | |||
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