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WWII Air Power skilled charges 8 dogfights in films

Pilot and Air Power officer Lt. Col. Matt Ziemann charges eight World Conflict II dogfight scenes in films for realism.

He discusses the accuracy of actual World Conflict II-era dogfights portrayed in Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” (2017), starring Tom Hardy; Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” (2001), starring Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett; and “Battle of Britain” (1969), starring Michael Caine. He additionally feedback on the realism of sure preventing techniques and the physics of flight in “Purple Tails” (2012), starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard; “Unbroken” (2014), starring Domhnall Gleeson; “Halfway” (2019), that includes Woody Harrelson and Patrick Wilson; “Memphis Belle” (1990), starring Matthew Modine; and “The Everlasting Zero” (2013), starring Junichi Okada.

Lt. Col. Matt Ziemann is an teacher on the Air Power’s Air College at Maxwell Air Power Base. He teaches ‘Management and Air Energy.’ He has been a pilot for 26 years and has expertise flying WWII-era planes.

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