Men of the Fighting Lady

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Last updated on 23 March 2014.

The Men of the Fighting Lady movie poster.

Movie (1954)
Aka : Panther Squadron

Starring:
Van Johnson (Lieutenant (jg) Howard Thayer)
Walter Pidgeon (Commander Kent Dowling)
Louis Calhern (James A. Michener)
Dewey Martin (Ensign Kenneth Schechter)

The Men of the Fighting Lady was based on the novels The Case of the Blinded Pilot by Cmdr. Harry A. Burns and James A. Michener's The Forgotten Heroes of Korea, and details life aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. The film's high point is the factually depicted scene where Thayer (Johnson) talks in a blinded Navy F9F Panther pilot (played by Dewey Martin) for a landing.

Douglas AD-1 Skyraider

Vought F4U Corsair

This could be a F4U-4 or a F4U-5 or the AU-1 (the ground-attack version) variant.

McDonnell F2H Banshee

Grumman F9F Panther

Aircrafts of VF-192 (Golden Dragons) code B.

Aircrafts of VF-123 code D.

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Film footage of this accident was used as the demise of Keenan Wynn's Lt. Cdr. Ted Dodson - completed with footage of a 1951 Grumman F9F (BuAer Num. 125228) mishap aboard the USS Midway (CV-41).
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.