Battle of Britain (1969)

Things an old guy thinks about:

The Battle of Britain movie featured planes that were only 25 years old.

My father flew with a couple of WWII vets in Vietnam.

When I was a kid, most WWII vets were still alive. My Godfather flew Spitfires and he didn’t seem very old old.

My high school buddy retired years ago … as an admiral.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
Things an old guy thinks about:

The Battle of Britain movie featured planes that were only 25 years old.

My father flew with a couple of WWII vets in Vietnam.

When I was a kid, most WWII vets were still alive. My Godfather flew Spitfires and he didn’t seem very old old.

My high school buddy retired years ago … as an admiral.
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When I started in the USAF, many O-5 and up aviators had the Vietnam service ribbon on their ribbon rack, as did every flag officer you’d see in the chain of command pics in the squadron building. Squadron top 2 were Vietnam vets from Linebacker, as were some in Group
Level and up. Many, many people had the Kuwait Liberation Medal too. Slowly, the Vietnam service ribbons began to disappear. Now, the Kuwait medal is becoming very rare to see on a uniform.
 
Bob Ridpath said:
The 1949 movie "Twelve O'clock High" with Gregory Peck.
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I agree 💯 and this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I don't count it as an aviation movie so much as I do a leadership treatise. I'm odd but everyone always tells new salesmen to read stupid motivational books by Zig Ziglar and assorted crap. I tell them to watch The Music Man and the Alec Baldwin monologue on Glengarry Glen Ross. People want to buy Tony motivation guys course or get a leadership coach I tell them to save their money and watch 12 O'clock High.
 
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