Product Details

• Actors: Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Jimmy Lydon, Amelita Ward, Dick Purcell
• Directors: William H. Pine
• Writers: Jack F. Dailey, Maxwell Shane
• Producers: William H. Pine, William C. Thomas
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: February 24, 2004
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00015YW6C
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,112 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Gotham (dba Alpha) Release Date: 03/29/2007

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Aerial Gunner, April 10, 2002

By	Daniel L. Stockton "Web Master... b24bestweb... (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Aerial Gunner [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although dated by today's standards ("Holy Christopher!"), the movie gives an accurate account of aerial gunnery training in WWII. For the first hour (of the 90 minute film), all aspects of gunnery training are portrayed. I fully enjoyed the epic, even though the characters end up in a B-25 Mitchell. (I'm partial to B-24 Liberators!) Well worth the watch!!

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not really a B-25 at all..., August 14, 2004

By	Dr. van der Linden (Williamstown, NJ) - See all my reviews

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...per the earlier review, but more properly a Lockheed Hudson light bomber (rated an attack plane by the USAAF as either the A-28 or the A-29), which was converted to a combat aircraft from a fast civilian airliner to British specifications before the war. Several hundred of these were taken expediently from Lend-Lease manufacture into USAAF and USN inventory after Pearl Harbor, and the Hudson is listed as having achieved the USAAF's first antisubmarine warfare (ASW) kill in the Atlantic after the formal opening of hostilities.

Interestingly, the bomber in the movie is depicted as having a tail gunner's position (it did not) and as having a single waist gunner (ditto). Hudson aircraft taken into the US inventory commonly had the big British Boulton-Paul dual .303 MG waist turret removed, to be replaced with a simple single-weapon .50 caliber dorsal firing station (like the one depicted in the movie as being manned by the radio operator). The previous reviewer's confusion is therefore somewhat understandable. Hopefully, enemy viewers of the movie also drew false impressions about the Hudson, and didn't as readily seek to exploit the aircraft's posterior and ventral vulnerabilities.

As for the film itself, the most interesting part was the depiction of aerial gunnery training, which definitely did include shooting skeet in order to give the trainees better preparatory conditioning for deflection shooting.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aerial Gunner DVD, February 28, 2008

By	Kevin Wisniewski (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very Difficult and rare classic movie on DVD to find! Great price,fast Shipment, good communucation and the product arrived in good condition! What more could you want? Recommend this seller! Thanks!
Kevin