By the time the genre-bending thriller “Shadow in the Cloud” ends, the movie’s heroine, Maude (played by Chloë Grace Moretz), has shot down fighter planes, climbed along the outside of a B-17 bomber in flight, fought hand to hand with a demonic “gremlin” and fiercely protected the secret package that put her in the air in the first place. That’s quite a list of accomplishments especially given that Maude spends almost the entire first half of the film sitting still.
“Shadow in the Cloud” is set during World War II and follows Maude on a classified mission that requires her to catch a ride with a hostile international crew of military airmen. After she boards, she parks herself in a gun turret underneath the Flying Fortress, where through her headset she overhears the fellas making disgustingly lascivious comments about her.
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WFSU’s Mike Plummer shows us the fateful story of a World War II era B-17 bomber that crashed at Saint Marks on a summer day in 1944. The plane went down carrying a crew of ten men…only one airman survived. Long forgotten, the wreckage was rediscovered in 2011. A historic marker is now in place so the story of these men won’t be forgotten again.
Transcript:
Reporter Mike Plummer: When I think of the St. Marks National
Wildlife Refuge, I usually think of unspoiled nature and its signature
lighthouse. But in 2011, a crew from the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found something else on the refuge that had
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Francis J. Foley passed away on December 14, 2020 at 9:17 pm at Alton Memorial Hospital.
Born in East St. Louis, IL on May 17, 1924, the son of the late Francis T. and Lucille B. (Gardner) Foley of Fairview Heights, IL.
He married the late Jeanne Fischer on May 4, 1957, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Alton. She passed away on January 27, 1972.
He attended Holy Angels Grade School in E. St. Louis from 1930- 1938. He then attended Central Catholic High School in E. St. Louis from 1938- 1942, where he played baseball for four years becoming the Team Captain. Football and soccer and participated in the annual boxing tournament for three years. Francis graduated June 7, 1942. During the summers of ’42 and ’43 he played “Muny” Baseball in E. St. Louis. In September on ’42 he enrolled at St. Louis University. Francis served his country during WWII in the Army Air Force, having applied and been accepted into the Pilot Training Program in 1943. After
I just love hearing about people like this!
Not long ago, a listener, Donna, emailed me and told me about her brother, Dan Doyon who lives in Portsmouth with his wife, Eileen. Eileen, in turn, emailed me with a fantastic story of strength and inspiration.
In 2017, Dan found out that he had prostate cancer. A diagnosis that I m sure was scary for him, his wife, Eileen and their family. It was around that time that Dan and Eileen took a chance at marketing a product that they had been making for their family and friends for years. He asked himself, If I don t do it now, when? The Flying Fortress Red Head came to market in December of 2018. Dan describes it as Christmas in a Bottle! Gotta get me some of THAT! It sounds exactly what you would want it to be. From his website, flyingfortressspirits.com, it s a combination of cranberry and spice. Perfect for Christmastime or anytime! That combo also screams to me, SUMMER in a bottle. A year round bottle of ha
Travel for Aircraft By joseph may on December 18, 2020 at 11:05 AM
“They’re Killing My Boys!”: the History of Hickam Field and the Attacks of 7 December 1941, J.Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John Di Virgolio, 2019, ISBN 9781682474587, 272 pp.
“They’re Killing My Boys!”: the History of Hickam Field and the Attacks of 7 December 1941 by J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio
“They’re Killing My Boys!” is the third title (the previous two books were reviewed in the previous posts) of a trilogy centered upon the disastrous series of attacks by the Japanese Empire bringing the U.S. directly into World War II. The authors create a unique approach, as well, by researching the details of a myriad of individual actions both U.S. and Japanese and knitting them into the tapestry of the actions at Hickam Army Air Field on 7 December 1941. The three authors collectively possess expertise and proficiency beyond most indivi