I used to have this on VHS, but its all there on YouTube now for those who appreciate the P-47 "Thunderbolt":
http://www.airboyd.tv/2010/01/...ic-p-47-documentary/

Thanks Bill. I watched it all. (Happened the year after I was born.)

Brice: Glad you enjoyed it. William Wyler also shot the original "Memphis Belle" documentary.
One of my uncles was a P-47 mechanic in WW II and had a deep fondness for those big, tough old warplanes. Another uncle flew B-24s in the South Pacific, one flew small Piper-like aircraft in Burma and another was a B-17 tailgunner. They're all gone now, like most of the birds they flew. God Bless the Greatest Generation.

I really like watching the low angle low level strafing clips in that film. The one where he hits the house and it blows up and busting the locomotive are a couple of pieces of incredible footage.

I actually saw this movie in a theater when I was a kid.

Hi again, Bill.
The small, Piper-like aircraft would very well have been DeHavilland Beavers. Kenmore Air Harbor, at the north end of Lake Washington here in Seattle operates a bunch of these on floats, and re-manufactures them. A friend was once head pilot at Kenmore, and told me that they recovered a crashed Beaver from a Burma jungle, put it in a container and shipped it home for re-build. Kenmore up-dates these with turbos and variable pitch props. I've spent a bit of time in them. They are real workhorses.

I suspect that most float plane enthusiasts, especially on the west coast, are fmailiar with KAH. It's quite an operation, the largest float plane operation in the world.