[Oleg Volk]

Just watched Dark Blue World. Basic plot is "Czech pilots fly for the RAF during WW2". Has a nice mix of very well done aerial footage (some computer-generated but quite realistic), human angle (with multiple sub-plots) and a little info on historic events. A little bleak, as the timeline jumps around a little and you get to see what happens after the Commies get their hands on some of the characters. Great camera and lighting work. Very well done...makers of trash like Pearl Harbor should take note but probably won't.

Another review (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000648X2/qid%3D1055774950/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-3972777-1536127)

[Detachment Charlie]

Oleg:
Just read thios the other night...your post triggered it ("Triggered" makes this "gun related," OK?)

http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,977780,00.html

Hero pilot unmasked as Hitler's spy in the RAF
The Observer (U.K.), by Paul Harris

Augustin Preucil was hailed as a hero. One of 'The Few' who helped to defeat the Luftwaffe in the skies over Britain in 1940, he was among the hundreds of Czech and Polish pilots who served in the Royal Air Force to free their conquered homelands from German occupation.
He died in an accident over the North Sea on 18 September, 1941, as he practised dog-fighting with a trainee Polish flier. His Hurricane fighter was seen spiralling towards the water, smoke trailing behind it. That is where Preucil's story should have ended: another brave young man lost during the war. But a chance discovery has unearthed a surprise twist: Preucil did not die that day, nor was he a hero.

He has been unmasked as a spy who betrayed the Allies for money as an agent of the Gestapo. He was the only known German agent successfully to infiltrate the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

The first clue to Preucil's double identity was uncovered by an amateur aviation historian, Richard Chapman, who, while sifting through old photographs from the German National Aviation Museum, noticed a 1941 picture of a Hurricane on display among German aircraft. The serial number was clearly visible. Chapman traced the serial number and was astonished to find the plane was Preucil's: the same one listed as having crashed into the sea, killing the pilot.

[MrKandiyohi]

I've seen the movie displayed at Best Buy, but hadn't heard anything, good or bad, about it. I may have to give it a try.

Here's some more info about it:

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0244479

I see that the love interest is Tara Fitzgerald. I likey.

[OEF_VET]

I rented the movie from Blockbuster a few weeks ago. It's actually pretty good. It's a heckuva lot better than some of the bigger, more expensive crap coming out of Hollywierd lately.

Frank

[swingset]

I've been recommending "Dark Blue World" for a while to the guys on the milsurp forums.

Very well acted, and the dogfighting and ground-attack scenes are as good as anything Hollyweird has done. It's the movie Pearl Harbor should have been.

I also enjoyed seeing a Spitfire MkIX in action, which is cool as all get out. The DVD has a good documentary where the director says basically they blew a lot of budget just renting the plane and doing unnecessary shots of flight because they loved the plane so much. Gotta like that.