TV show "Black Sheep Squadron"

Bob Wright said:

I've been watching the TV show "Black Sheep Squadron" of late on Saturday evenings. Gets kind of corny and far fetched at times, but good aerial footage. Some of the gun camera scenes get the theaters mixed up, a FW -190 going down in flames from Papy's guns, for example. Also of interest are the actors who went on to star in other series. Dan Blocker's son is also noted among them.

Another show is "Tour of Duty" based on the war in Viet Nam. Seems they spent more time in Saigon than in the bush. And they had civilian clothes? And Class "A" uniforms?

Bob Wright

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daveag. said:

I think of "Tour of Duty" every time I hear "Paint It Black". One of the Stones best songs.

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steveodtw said:

My old barber Had a Corsair model hanging from his shop ceiling. He was a mechanic who worked on them in the Pacific. That must have been some job. Probably not a lot of replacement parts coming in regularly. He passed away about 5 years ago.

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Jeepnik said:

Why do people expect heroic individuals to be nice guys? Some are some aren't, just like the rest of humanity.

But regardless of a heroes personality, it doesn't change their accomplishments.

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Snake45 said:

The BSS Corsairs are well-known and semi-legendary in the Warbird community. The real Boyington and VMF-214 in the period depiced flew F4U-1 and -1A Corsairs, mostly in the so-called "tricolor" paint scheme; the BSS Corsairs were a ragtag collection of -1A/FG-1A, F4U-4, and even a very late F4U-7 (built for the French in 1952) Corsairs, all painted in overall Glossy Sea Blue, a late-war scheme, with no numbers or other markings to make the editing of the footage easier. Many of these Corsairs still exist and are airworthy.

Simon Oakland (a veteran of Bullitt) played the General, and the maintenance sergeant who called the pilots "college boy" was played by Red West, a member of Elvis's entourage/inner circle/"Memphis Mafia." He also appeared in Road House, among other movies and TV shows

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Terry Baird said:

One of the best parts about the show was the interaction between Micklin and Boyington. I miss Red West.

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Snake45 said:

Me too. He had a fabulous guest shot around 1979 or 1980 on Battlestar Galactica as a "space cowboy" of some sort--I think he was a rancher or a rancher's bouncer or something of that nature. Anyway, he was a real bully and got what was coming to him. I can't remember all the details--this WAS over 40 years ago and I only saw it once.

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