GR to M&D filmic moment

Tom Stanton tstanton at nationalgeographic.com
Thu May 22 06:33:07 CDT 1997


At 02:29 PM 5/21/97 -0400, Saturated at aol.com wrote:
>
>In The Glenn Miller Story [snip]the signal sputter & choke as the
propellent cuts 
>& it spirals to earth with everybody in the audience takin cover...

Get yer V's straight. The V-1 aka "buzz bomb" was a gas propelled bomb
with wings that could be seen & heard as it approached. The V-2 aka
A4 was a ballistic missile propelled by liquid oxygen & alcohol that
travelled faster than sound, so you never heard it coming.



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