Awesome movie! It is about time we recognized some of the lesser known heroes. The sad part is that once the war was over it took an awfully long time for even a small bit of equality to happen. There were a couple spots that the acting was a bit rough, but by the time the movie ended, I felt like standing and clapping. Of course, I am ex-Air Force and was active duty on the tail end of women in the Air Force being WAFs--which, to those who don't realize it, women, like the Tuskegee Airmen, had their own division of the Air Force. It was just months before I went active duty in 1977, that women became "service members" and not WAFs. When I got to my first duty assignment, my OIC turned to me and said he told MPC not to send a woman--women were lazy and did a poor job. I was in an all male office, and no one would speak to me. I put up with the nonsense for a couple of weeks, hoping things would change. It finally came down to me slamming a route folder down in front of the NCOIC and saying, "How do I do this?" This "lazy woman" turns out was the best radar predictor on base and when it came time for me to ship out to a new duty assignment, was given an Air Force Commendation Medal.
Red Tails was well done. I'm glad it was presented in such a positive way and not just in the style of a documentary. The dogfights were great--makes me wonder how they did all the special effects. I know there aren't that many WWII aircraft around anymore, nor would they want to blow them out of the sky like that.
Go see this movie. I bet you'll like it.
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