Tokyo Joe
Movie (1949)
Starring:
Humphrey Bogart (Joseph 'Joe' Barrett)
Alexander Knox (Mark Landis)
Florence Marly (Trina Pechinkov Landis)
Sessue Hayakawa (Baron Kimura)
An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Douglas C-54G-5-DO Skymaster
Arrival at Haneda Air Force Base (nowadays Tokyo Haneda International Airport).
Registration NC95423, c/n 36015 built in 1945. Named The Tokyo. Originally carried serial 45-0562 with the USAAF before passing into civilian service.
C-54 taxiing in the background. Closer to the camera but cut off by the ATC panel is a Curtiss C-46 Commando. At far left is the tail of an Ilyushin Il-12 with the red star of the Soviet Air Forces.
Lockheed AT-18 Hudson
Registration N67196, c/n 414-7466. Originally carried military serial 42-55744. This aircraft will later be written off in a crash 400 miles south of Ensenada, Mexico on 29 October 1951.
Nippon-American Air Freight is fictional.
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