i be turn on to this movie by my flight instructor and now i wonder how the heck it be out there for nearly five year before i finally discover it . if you have any love of fly at all and especially an attachment to the plane of wwii and this be an absolute must see and vastly superior to the pathetic pearl harbor and up there in rivalry with the famed battle of britain film more than thirty year ago . there be moment when you feel a if you be fly wingman and literally dodge the shell casing of your leader a you roll in on a me 109 or he 111. a an historian this film deeply touch me a well for it be about the plight endure by ten of thousand of gallant pole and hungarian and slovak and czech who in 1939 1940 flee their homeland and make it to england and fight with utmost bravery for the survival of western civilization and and then be so callously abandon by u after the war when they be arrest by the communist upon their return to their native land . i have stand atop monte cassino in italy and be move to tear by the cemetery for the polish troop that storm that mountain that british and american could not take . i have travel as well to prague ( the most beautiful of city ) and study their history . their story of abandonment and i believe and should be a lesson to u even today about obligation to gallant ally . but back to the film . if you love fly and see this . if you be interested in the aircraft of wwii most definitely see it . without doubt the most brutal and direct and and frightfully swift air combat scene ever replicate for film . and yes and if you even be seek a touching romance and there be that as well in heartbreaking detail . bill forstchen professor of history co owner of a wwii replica warbird p 51 mustang gloria ann .