BetrilloZ: You can't have seen many movies in many years. And what do you know about flying in "those days" ?

The Magenta Line children have it easy now eh.

Most ditchings suck anyway. Even if you put it down well, they sink quickly.

WALTERBROADDUS Well, not necessarily. A plane can easily stay afloat for hours and hours unless it is broken apart. We actually teach our student pilots in great detail how to perform water landings in case of an engine failure - against the wind, close and paralell to the shore, avoiding power lines, low speed, full flaps, wings level and wheels locked. If done right, it will be a smooth landing and the plane will neither sink or cartwheel but gently break the surface and stop, only partially submerged. I have once even helped salvaging a small single prop plane that did just that. It had been floating for nearly three hours and besides serious water damage, there was no major physical trauma to the fuselage. Pilot and passenger could swim/wade to the shore unharmed.

The majority of people watching this are not going to be pilots, and could care less. They want drama. If they made all war movies accurate, most people would die of boredom before getting to the actual combat scenes.

@@JoelBrothers watch "Das Boot" everything is realistic(the story isn't as realisti). It potrays the boredom, the excitement, and the despair the crews of a U-boat went through, and still it keeps your attention through the whole 3 hours of screen time. You can be as realistic as you want you just gotta now which parts should be on screen and which ones should be off screen. Don't play around with realism cause you want drama, makes it less fun to watch.

@@sdslofi1107 Like I said, it's just a movie and with a few exceptions such as Das Boot, Saving Pvt Ryan, etc... most are dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.

Reading this gave me anxiety

So what makes YOUR comment believable? To everyone else you just sound like a big of a big head. How can you even have the gall to say other comments are all lies but yours is the truth?

Ní Síocháin Gan Saoirse what is so inaccurate that you won’t watch this movie

Hey, drugs won’t smuggle themselves...am I right? Lol

Tap02 I have no I idea what your commenting on but you sir are correct

reinplat hahahah

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lmfao....you must be a fellow Irish brother or sister of mine....EIRE!!! but again LOL:-)

Zaved Raisuz Zaman wow

He was a true soldier!!! When in a war zone, always act a soldier!!!

I'm 72 years old. My experience with radio, radar, and GPS is that they always go bad when you really want them. Best to always follow your position with map and compass.

Hats off to the old wisdom of compass using considering GPS is only run by 8 years life span of 24 satellites while compass will run another 1 billion years without any hitch plus no battery needed which another plus over GPS! Now today even North Korea is capable of deploying small truck based GPS jammer small radar like stuff that can cancel all GPS signal within 100 miles /150km of diameter land area. Which kills GPS idea in critical time.

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GPS isn't all that either. Many cases were people were lost or drove onto lakes or past cliff-lines because of faulty GPS..

fabulousprofound. Or you learn to navigate with the sun and your watch.

Actually the TBD isn't big enough, the real thing was a bit bigger

They were too far for radio contact. :)

A Random Person his father doesn't care......

@@jiangchengsbathtub7815 Joke flew past you just like the plane past the camera.

BK CheZ Really? Ohorat

@@jiangchengsbathtub7815 talking about the other commenter.

"not that there's anything WRONG with that".

Jack Flak gayEEE

@@LANDSHARKK don't reveal your sexual orientations to KZfaq strangers.

@@gremlyn1658 ok Mr “Queen”

@@LANDSHARKK takes one to know one 👀

Only in the movies

@@Holiday48000 U dont say

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The Malfoys are survivors!

Greg Boyington . That's why they are Lost.

Nore me LOL

And USS Ranger as well.

Film makers really aren't known for being grognards.

My thoughts exactly.

VersusARCH yeah, the Lexington or the Saratoga!

VersusARCH I noticed that too! I am the Son of a World War Two Navy Shipfitter.

Douglas only built 130 of them. Only 4 known to exist, all under water wrecks. The 1941 movie 'Dive Bomber' featured a bunch of them.

130, and a third of those died at Midway.

It's not that the plane had flaws. It was just obsolete by the time the war started. Existing pre-war designs had to do until newer designs could be developed and manufactured.

The TBD Devastator was a terrible warplane even for the late pre-war period. Slow, sluggish and finicky. It was a liability regardless of whether it was dropping bombs or torpedoes (especially the awful early-war aerial torpedoes used by the US Navy). The USN would have been better off replacing all TBDs with the SBD Dauntless until sufficient numbers of TBF Avengers could be produced.

That's exactly what the US Navy did after all the TBDs were shot down during the Coral Sea battle -_- No one ever saw a Devastator after 1942 it seems.

Remember the Pacific as an ocean is freaking big and it's far from easy to maintain a good navigation with such a primitive equipment. Sometimes a cloud was enough to have a whole crew losing sight of each other and ending up ditching. Pilots who fought there couldn't believe what they heard when pilots of the European front told them the sky was black with aircrafts there.

Pilot fell asleep... They flew outside their patrol route

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primary role was torpedo bomber

I would say it wasn't state of the art given that just six months later they got chewed up real good at Midway. They are listed as effective through March 1942, but they had yet to come across a real Japanese response up to Midway. During the Coral Sea battle they helped sink one carrier, failed on another, and I honestly think it was already obsolete before the war started. Even though it could heft a sizable load aloft it was very slow and under armored, and once the Japanese got into them it was over. Now, I realize part of that at Midway was the Jap's fighter cover was drawn down and as such the Devastators felt the full force of that umbrella, but I would hazard to say that given a similar situation the SBD would have been a bit more survivable, and was designed around the same time period as the TBD, 1935. With that, state of the art for 1942 to me is the B-26, the TBF series, the Jug.....these were all state of the art planes available by the Battle of Midway.

Yeah that's the most annoying part.

yes, that was really stupid. close your eyes and nose down, power up. OMG

And what's with the "got to put her down before we run out of fuel"? Jeez, just use up the available fuel, and land when the engine finally has stopped of fuel starvation. You can still glide you know? Those extra ten-fifteen minutes might be all you need to find your way back. Hollywood, care to invite some people with basic aviation knowledge the next time? Rant over, time to watch the movie now.

@@thomaskolb8785 10 mins? If you're 10 mins away you would hear and see a ship. He is on fumes and at least a hundred miles away.

@@thomaskolb8785 Hollywood DOES invite knowledgable people to help. They have money. This is an independant production--- low budget, not Hollywood.

but he's british....

thats what makes him so perfect

You forgot the leeches and mosquitos, they killed more than the Japanese (once a Japan detachment went through some jungle to fight Marines, they ended up eaten by massive crocodiles).

_We lost more pilots in the Pacific to this (got lost, ran out of fuel or mech malfunction) than we did to enemy action_ Source for this claim? Seems far fetched.

My father was navigator/bombardier on B-29's, two tours. Some of their missions they would hear a pair of P-51 pilots talking. One of them had flown too long at combat settings and no longer had the fuel to get back. He would ditch, and his buddy would circle, transmitting in the hope that their position would be recorded, and then, out of fuel he would ditch beside his buddy. Some of the missions he flew were search and rescue, with rafts in the bomb bay. Never once did they locate any of the crews they set out to find.

@@julosx Not true.

@@VRichardsn It seems perfectly logical to me. Former President Bush was rescued from the ocean for one. Distances were vast and brave pilots pushed the limits. You are quite young, correct?

Boi Malfoy left Harry Potter and friends in the dust he's all like Murica Now

HortonKansas STFU Everybody

You might, at least, spell Hermione correctly!

exactly my thought, wish they only stuck with the close up shots inside the cockpit as the acting wasnt bat at all.

Yeah, for a sec I thought I was actually watching a War Thunder video like, "Did I click the wrong thing?"

yes... the CGI was totally crap.

for reals this is ass

Not really, it wasn't that bayd. It was an interesting scene too.

Who he?

lol i think Black shadow means Jake Abel who Played Luke Castellan in Percy Jackson. he's in the film along side Tom Felton who played Draco Malfoy in Harry potter.

I put a volley ball in my bug-out bag....I case I got lonely.

Ken Clark And curled up by the floor.

Ken Clark: You are the first commentator to notice that !

Too bad you weren't there they wouldn't have gotten lost. You forgot situational awareness, which is almost impossible with no landmarks. You also forgot wind drift magnetic north variations to map geometry, as well as instrument error, as well as no fail safe to tell you where you are, oh and limited fuel as well as having a bomb strapped to you but I bet they are listening to how easy you make it seem.

Yup it would be ear plug time in that cabin or close. I don't think they even factored noise in at that time.

It's a newsreel. It's all stock footage. Your nitpicking.

@@WALTERBROADDUS The question was, how hard would it have been to be accurate. You're probably one of those who thought Matt Damon looked like Carroll Shelby because he wore a cowboy hat:)

@@bill2953 Accurate about B roll newsreels? Not needed.

Putz comment, and your service was????

How does one ditch an airplane? Seems that would have a very LOW success rate being that hitting water at 150 MPH would be like hitting solid stuff--I remember watching a 007 James Bond movie where the bad guys kidnapped a British Vulcan bomber and landed it of the coast of Bermuda or Cayman someplace--kinda stretches crediblity...Just sayin'

Actually, yes, you would

@@hddun you use your altitude and your best glide speed to buy you as much time and distance you can get.

@@justsayin3228 how so? By dropping altitude like the pilot did, you greatly reduce the horizontal distance you can travel, plus you have that much less time to prepare for exiting the aircraft.

My father flew navigator/bombardier in B-29's, and one of my english teachers in high school few in Fairey Battles (Englishman) The Battles were similar to the TBD's in being obsolete and under-powered and still committed to combat, resulting in terrible losses (the bridges over the Meuse river during the German's invasion of France in 1940, during their breakout after going through the "impassable" Ardennes forests and hills.)

It's World War. We fought in many places.

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@@John77Doe Look them up, completely different profiles. Such as Enterprise didnt have a seperate bridge tower from her funnel

It's called normal panicking.

twickersruss: it's a film.

are you embarrassed at your ignorance.

Does the Devastator have flaps?

You're complaining about almost EVERY movie involving dialogue in aircraft--both fixed & rotary wing--ever made.

Turn back to where many a navy pilot in those times could not find the ship it's a really big place the Pacific ocean no radio contact no direction

Next time he should use rabbit ears....just sayin'