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The B-17G Flying Fortress Sentimental Journey is on display in Avra Valley, Arizona, 1991. It is named after the early 1945 recorded song made... more
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The B-17G Flying Fortress "Sentimental Journey" is on display in Avra Valley, Arizona, 1991. It is named after the early 1945 recorded song made popular by singer Doris Day and band leader Les Brown. The tune became an anthem for G.I.'s longing to return home.
The posing woman is Betty Grable (1916-1973) the most popular pinup of that era.
The "SJ" is based in an air museum in Mesa, Arizona.
The craft is only one of 11 B-17's left; manufactured in 1944 it only saw action in March 1945.
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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