Combat Killers
Movie (1968)
French title : Commando de choc dans le Pacifique or (Quebec) Commando de la mort
Italian title : Zona 421: obiettivo Manila
German title : Todeskommando Iwo Jima
Starring:
Paul Edwards Jr. (Lieutenant Brandt)
Claude Wilson ()
Marlene Dauden (Pelita Cruz)
Ken Metcalf ()
Late stages of World War Two in the Pacific: a U.S. platoon is nearly annihilated and is going into a second trap but a tied native captive of the Japanese will try to alert them.
This aircraft is a civilian four-seat aircraft type designed in 1948 acting as a Japanese single-seat fighter straffing the U.S. troops.
North American F-86 Sabre
The ultimate fate of the Japanese straffer: to explode under ground fire. And then, in the blink of an eye, we see a North American F-86 Sabre (a model maybe from a Japanese movie).
Lockheed P2V Neptune
A late variant Lockheed (P2V-5 or P2V-7 ?) Neptune (as the movie is filmed in 1968, we must say : P-2E or P-2H).
This maritime patrol aircraft designed for anti-submarine task is seen here acting in the bomber role, first as Japanese Forces and later as U.S. bomber !
Unidentified Aircraft
A twin tail aircraft seen among the bombers acted by the Neptune ...
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