Yeah, right. Dorinda (has she even had training on a P-38, a hot rod fighter ?) takes on the mission and singlehandedly destroys the Japanese base. Shades of Luke Skywalker and the Death Star, lol. And those explosions, wow ! All from a couple bombs that she dropped. It looked like the whole place blew up !
I understand the sentiment, but that's the only part of the movie that made me scratch my head and go " What the -- ? ".
...........Dorind's job was to fairy P-38 to combat areas so she certainly would have not had any problems flying the plane to the target. Of course she was getting some metaphysical help. The island was being used as a munitions dump and while it would take a lucky hit to sat off such a massive explosion it could happen. During the Second World War a liberty ship, in the process of being loaded with bombs at a naval installation near San Francisco, exploded and took most of the base with it. After the war a freighter, loaded with nitrate based fertilizer, blow up and distroyed much of Texas City, Texas.........While George Lucas may have gotten some inspiration from "A guy Named Joe" for "Star Wars" the attack on the Death Star scene was inspired by the bombing of the Ruhr Valley dams sequence in the British movie "Dam Busters".
I'm not Spartacus. The dude over there in the sandals who looks like Kirk Douglas is.
Totally agree with both your comments, good movie with ridiculous ending. How emasculating was it for Ted Randall (Van Johnson), her doing single handed what was to be a risky mission for an entire squadron? I guess the case could have been made that a lone plane flying at tree top altitude could get closer to the target before being detected than an entire squadron, but the film didn’t even suggest that.