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Farewell is done to a fare-thee-well by everybody from the costumer to the excellent cast. Sets that should look threadbare have seldom looked so rat-ridden. The neon sign outside a crummy dive is almost too properly defective. There is an enthusiastic appetite for everything possibly sinister about a big city and its people. The makers of the film go farther with their realism: they try to make sensations and states of mind visual. Best: the drug sequence, presenting through double exposure an indecipherable web of confusion and dreamlike memory...
...year-old David McCampbell, an elderly airman as fighter pilots go, failed to bag a single Jap until he reached Saipan last June. Then he had still another handicap: he was promoted to group commander. i.e., battle boss of all the planes of one carrier, and had to direct dive bombers and torpedo planes as well as his fighters. But the Pacific war was moving west and the carriers were closing on the enemy. McCampbell's fighter squadron, which had not yet downed a single Jap, was getting set to start scoring...
...variations, the ball-handling quarterback forms the stem of the T, the other three backs the top crossbar. By any name, its razzle-dazzle pattern of spinners, flankers, man-in-motion, dive-tackle plays pack a wallop that makes scores and delights the fans...
...free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings To run and fly and dive at our behest, Through which the mighty wind of freedom sings. America is not a land of rest...
...June 11, the Skipper, Bill Dean, led them over Guam and Rota. That day, for the first time, the Rippers flew on top of the war. June 19 Wilbur ("Spider") Webb slid into a flock of Jap dive bombers circling to land on Guam and knocked off six, ending his rampage with only one gun still working. On that day the Rippers got 51 planes in aerial combat, a record which the Rippers shattered themselves five days later by shooting down 67 planes over Iwo Jima...