July 5 - Fortress

Today’s movie is a combat film with a scene that happens on July 5. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

FORTRESS    

On July 5, 1943 [1:20 to 10:16] a B-17 bomber called Lucky Lass based in Tunisia participates in an air raid on Gerbini, Italy. The pilot Pops and crew members Jake and Joe are killed.  Michael is assigned as the new co-pilot and the current co-pilot, Wally is promoted to pilot. Tom and Oliver are the new waist gunners. During the next mission Wally gets ptomaine and when Michael gets lost they have to combat enemy fighters and abort the mission. They have to abort the next mission due to an engine failure. The engines are repaired when it is discovered there was sand in the oil pumps. Lucky Lass goes on a raid on Rome. They are hit by another B-17 after it is hit by anti-aircraft fire.  Lucky Lass ends up at a very low altitude, is hit and Wally and Tom are killed. After they cross the African coast all the crewmen except Michael and Archie, who had been acting as co-pilot bail out. Archie’s parachute has been destroyed, so he pushes Michael out to safety and then the shot up plane disintegrates.   

                       

The date is given in the film at1:35.

                       

Producers - Julian Moss, Jason McKinley, Brian Thompson, Jerry Buteyn and Adam Klein

Director - Michael R. Phillips


Screenwriter -  Adam Klein


Runtime – 1 hour 45 minutes


Released – April 1, 2012


Starring –

Bug Hall as Michael

Donnie Jeffcoat as Wally

Sean McGowan as Archie

Chris Owen as Burt

Edward Finlay as Philly

Manu Intiraymi as Charlie

John Laughlin as Base Commander

Howard Gibson as Caparelli

Joseph Williamson as Eddie

Tony Elias as Oliver

Tim Hade as Al

Jeremy Ray Valdez as Tom

Jamie Martz as Pops

Mark Doerr as Briefing Officer

Matt Biedel as Monroe

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.