USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

Movie (2016)
French title : USS Indianapolis
Starring:
Nicolas Cage (Captain Charles Butler McVay)
Tom Sizemore (Chief Petty Officer McWhorter)
Thomas Jane (Lieutenant (JG) Wilbur C. "Chuck" Gwinn)
Matt Lanter (Chief Petty Officer Brian "Bama" Smithwick)
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Note: This film utilises a significant quantity of Computer Generated Images (CGI). Aircraft portrayed in this film may not be entirely accurate and have been identified as closely as possible to real aircraft.
Mitsubishi A6M Zero (CGI)





Unidentified Aircraft
Japanese movie of the Pearl Harbor attack taken from a multi-seat aircraft : most probably a Aichi D3A; if not, it's a Nakajima B5N.
(center) The black blurred form is the film reel.

Stamp
(top right) A 1941 15 cents red stamp featuring a twin-engined transport plane (a Douglas DC-3 but with the three-tail unit of the Douglas DC-4E prototype. This last one was a four-engined machine).
The same stamp is view too in Welcome to Marwen and Blaze of Noon.

North American P-51D Mustang

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina (CGI)


Lockheed PV-2D Harpoon
Registration N6657D (*) Lockheed PV-2D Harpoon c/n 15-1606 acting as a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura (the two types have closed shape despite major redesign about wing area (+20%) and solid nose instead a glazed one for the PV-1). The Lockheed PV-1 Ventura flown by Lieutenant Wilbur "Chuck" Gwinn and his crew spotted in the survivors three and a half days after the sinking.
(*) Carried BuNo 84062 while in military service. Airworthy and owned by the Stockton Field Aviation Museum in California.






Consolidated-Vultee PBY-6A Catalina
Registration N85U, c/n 64041. Aircraft sprung a leak and was beached during filming, and ended up being broken up.





Boeing B-29 Superfortress (CGI)


Martin PBM Mariner
Seen during the closing credits.

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