Thunderbolt (1945)

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As my opinion has been asked for, following the description I believed this to be a film starring James Stewart only to discover that it is just a documentary of poor quality viewing about the plane Thunderbolt with commentry by James Stewart. In other words a real disappointment. More precision about the DVD contents would have been better. Thankyou anyway November 17, 2007

Great old documentary but poor quality video

This is a great documentary made during the latter days of WW II but the quality of the video leaves much to be desired, the original film that was used for making the DVD had obviously suffered significant deterioration. That or they just did a really lousy job of transferring it to DVD. January 31, 2007

THE BEST WWII documentary

Thunderbolt is the best WWII documentary I'v ever seen.
Zvi Davidick is an IDIOT May 30, 2005

Great Little Film

This is a great little documentary about an important part of WW II, the Italian campaign, that is too often over looked. Some of the footage is a bit out of focus but other sections have some great footage. The 57 FS "The First in the Blue" documented in the film was the first US air group engaged in the war fighting all the way from Palestine and across North Africa. I can't imagine there are many better $5 deals out there. August 9, 2004

This film has a personal family history

The opening shots of the airfield, show a Thunderbolt named "DOTTIE". Dottie is my mother, and the pilot was her husband, George Lovato. The scene in the bar with a pilot playing an accordian is George. He sang and recorded a couple of records prior to the war. On October 31st, 1944, George Lovato and his plane "Dottie" went Missing in Action. November 9, 2003

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