Strategic Air Command
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Halifax, West Yorks
Age: 83
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I have just watched my VHS copy of “Strategic Air Command” for the first time in years. The flying sequences are superb although the story line is poor. It is really a fine propaganda film, extolling the virtues of SAC in the dangerous fifties. I found it quite confusing with Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson playing ‘happy families’ and found myself wondering at times why Glenn Miller was flying a B36?
There is a ‘howler’ in the scene where Stewart and his fellow pilots are briefed on the new B47. Behind the briefing officer there is a wall size map of the world showing how SAC can reach across the globe. If you watch for close-ups over the officer’s left shoulder you will see that SAC shows the United Kingdom with a misshapen Scotland separated from England by a channel of about 20 miles of ocean. Were SAC anticipating not only a political but also a physical split?
There is a ‘howler’ in the scene where Stewart and his fellow pilots are briefed on the new B47. Behind the briefing officer there is a wall size map of the world showing how SAC can reach across the globe. If you watch for close-ups over the officer’s left shoulder you will see that SAC shows the United Kingdom with a misshapen Scotland separated from England by a channel of about 20 miles of ocean. Were SAC anticipating not only a political but also a physical split?
