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To portray the then scarce B-17E, the makers of Tora Tora Tora used later models of the B-17 modified to resemble the earlier model. These aircraft include B-17F 42-29782 now displayed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle as "Boeing Bee", B-17G 44-83563 owned by the Wings of Eagles Museum in Santa Ana California as "Fuddy Duddy", and B-17G 44-85829 now flown by the Yankee Air Museum in Willow Run Michigan as "Yankee Lady"
 
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  [[Image: Vlc2008031221133144jn2.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.]]  
 
[[Image: Vlc2008031221145321sl5.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.]]  
 
[[Image: Vlc2008031221145321sl5.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.]]  
 
[[Image: Vlc2008031221150163vs8.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.]]  
 
[[Image: Vlc2008031221150163vs8.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.]]  
 
[[Image: Vlc2008031221160477pn7.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.]]  
 
[[Image: Vlc2008031221160477pn7.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.]]  
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Revision as of 17:39, 20 October 2011

Tora! Tora! Tora! movie poster.

Movie (1970)
Alternative English title: Tora! Tora! Tora!: The Attack on Pearl Harbor

Starring:
Martin Balsam (Adm. Husband E. Kimmel)
Sô Yamamura (Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto)
Joseph Cotten (Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson)
Tatsuya Mihashi (Cmdr. Minoru Genda)
E.G. Marshall (Lt. Col. Rufus S. Bratton)
James Whitmore (Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.)

A dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.

Curtiss P-40K Warhawk

Curtiss P-40K Warhawk of the USAAF.
Curtiss P-40K Warhawk of the USAAF.
Curtiss P-40K Warhawk of the USAAF.
Curtiss P-40K Warhawk of the USAAF.
Curtiss P-40K Warhawk of the USAAF.

North American T-6 Texan

Modified North American T-6 Texans used as stand-ins for the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

North American T-6 Texan.
North American T-6 Texan.
North American T-6 Texan.
North American T-6 Texan.

Vultee BT-13 Valiant

Beside the T-6, modified Vultee BT-13 Valiants are also used as stand-ins for the Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers.

Vultee BT-13 Valiant.
Vultee BT-13 Valiant.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

To portray the then scarce B-17E, the makers of Tora Tora Tora used later models of the B-17 modified to resemble the earlier model. These aircraft include B-17F 42-29782 now displayed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle as "Boeing Bee", B-17G 44-83563 owned by the Wings of Eagles Museum in Santa Ana California as "Fuddy Duddy", and B-17G 44-85829 now flown by the Yankee Air Museum in Willow Run Michigan as "Yankee Lady"

Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the USAAF.

Aichi D3A

Aichi D3A of the Kōkū Jieitai.

Consolidated PBY Catalina

Missing pictures. Lost from Imageshack on IMCDb.


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