Yes, my ex's father (UK Navy) used to talk about that. I just seemed such a horrible, and rather stupid, waste chucking all those planes overboard.THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) This is one WWII film I did not want to watch; but, somehow did anyway. So, there are these 3 veterans, 2 portrayed by big-name actors, & one who actually was in the war, & lost both hands in the process. Well, they meet & become acquainted on a military transport plane going from an Army Air force base to a small Midwestern town. Two of them had inversions during the war; that is, going for prominent jobs to lower ones, or vise-versa. One, Technical Sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March) had a white-collar job in a bank, the other, Captain Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) was a soda-jerk in a drug store. The third guy, Petty Officer 2nd Class Homer Parrish (Harold Russell), I do not recall his position in life, but having lost both hands, he must adjust to the changes. His girlfriend, will she still want to marry him, or not? That, as well as the difficulties of going through life without hands. I can tell you, because I was in a homeroom for crippled kids, & there was one boy who had neither elbows nor knees, just stubs. He had those hooks for hands, and such, and the difficulty using them for 'normal' things, such as writing, eating, etc.
The one scene that stuck in my mind was when Derry went to a field covered with partially disassembled aircraft. There were rows upon rows of engines, fuselages, etc.
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I recall a radio talk show guy talking about the military's overwhelming desire to bring the boys home, and just shoving equipment off aircraft carriers into the sea. Then, just a few years later, needing to build new ones, for the Korean War.
I saw this not too long ago. Unique, clever, and fun.Skeletons (2010) - and this is what I've been looking for every time I pick up a DVD I've never heard of. Skeletons is a low budget British film about two bickering men, working for a mysterious Colonel, who provide a service for people. A service that changes their customers' lives in not altogether expected ways. I won't say more because discovering what they do is part of the fun of the film. And it's just wonderful: very funny, mysterious, touching and odd. Very very odd. (One of the characters turns Bulgarian.) I love watching films where I have no idea what is going to happen. Some films you know exactly how they are going to play out before the end of the first scene and the rest of the watching is a matter of appreciating (or not) the interesting, skillfull way way the film makers arrange their dominoes as they all tip over. With Skeletons I was guessing right up to the last scene. I loved it. One of the out-takes in the extras on the disc is entitled, "Cat-Faced Women of the 1940s" which I think is the best title for a deleted scene I have ever seen.
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