The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Movie (1960)
German title : Auf schrägem Kurs
French title : Le rafiot héroïque
Italian title : La nave più scassata... dell'esercito
Starring:
Jack Lemmon (Lt. Rip Crandall)
Ricky Nelson (Ensign Tommy J. Hanson)
John Lund (Lt. Cmdr. Wilbur F. Vandewater)
Chips Rafferty (Patterson (coast watcher))
In 1943, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Rip Crandall, an expert yachtsman in civilian life, is based at Townsville, in Australia. He is surprised to be assigned command of a sailing ship, the USS Echo, the only one among US Navy inventory.
Grumman S-2 Tracker
Aboard USS Bennington (CV-20).
Grumman S-2 Tracker BuNo 136454 built in 1956. Sent to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in August 1974.
Unidentified Aircraft
Now during World War Two, those Douglas A-1 Skyraider (?) are acting as American "interceptors" against an incoming air raid.
Airspeed Oxford
Acting as the Japanese bombers.
Beechcraft 18
Acting as a Japanese patrol aircraft.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Closeup on the Japanese crew. The cockpit doesn't match with a Model 18 but is C-47. (left) Note the longitudinal nose reinforcement that does not exist on operational aircraft and the windshield wiper painted white: maybe just the nose of a written off airframe used for instructional task or on display?
Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina
This Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina seems to wear the code XA on its tail, so it's flying for VX-1 (US Navy, Atlantic Fleet).
Unidentified Aircraft
The five on the right seems to Avengers (Grumman TBF or those built by General Motors as TBM).
Douglas SBD Dauntless
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
Vought F4U Corsair
Unidentified Aircraft
Japanese fighter : Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate ? Kawanishi N1K(1-J Shiden or 2-J Shiden Kai) ? or Mitsubishi A6M Zero ?
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