Don't read the comments on the youtube video if you want to enjoy being drawn in to
this 13 minute story/video. Watch the whole thing.. An amazing story when
you get to the reveal at the end. Enjoy....
ETA:
The plane was a Douglas AD-1Q Skyraider
Check out this link I found this morning <<<<<
Who knew? No wonder Clint is the way he is.
ReplyDeleteWonderful. Loved the story.
ReplyDeleteBallen could have at least found a photo of an actual dive bomber, and I'm curious as to why a single seat aircraft had two life rafts.
ReplyDeleteDidn't see the end,but knew who it was.Came ashore in Carmel,didn't he?Made his day.
ReplyDeleteWow, never heard this story, so awesome. Hybo
ReplyDeleteOne more reason to admire Clint . A man has to know his limitations ! Get off my lawn !
ReplyDeleteBullshit details. No single seat WWII combat aircraft, espcially dive bombers, were pressurized. B29s were. Only single seat aircraft that I ever heard that had a stripper pole in it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a single seat aircraft would not carry two rafts (crash kits)
ReplyDeletehttps://metrovoicenews.com/clint-eastwood-turns-89-shares-plane-crash-story/
ReplyDeleteSays here he told the story himself. He is THE most humble man in hollyweird. I do not doubt the story.
Nice find Irish
It wasn't single-seat, it was an AD-1Q, a two-seat Electronic Countermeasures aircraft.
ReplyDeleteThe official report shows a destination of Mather airbase in Sacramento not Ft.Ord. Crashed off Pt.Reyes? I guess he was taking the long way home.
ReplyDeleteIt may be a true story but the guy in the video is AOC level BS. This generation has shown it is possible to be so stupid to not know they are stupid.
ReplyDeleteStupid me to waste my time listening to that shit. Its gonna take a week or more to regain the grey matter I lost listening to this BS. Jerk couldn't even be bothered to collect proper photos to support his BS. F this shit. Irish, shamw on you. Shame on me for wasting my time.
Hey Rick , sorry you didn’t like the story. I found it interesting enough so to share. Maybe the narrator read an account that had been embellished through the years. Aren’t most stories that get told over and over slightly changed ? Regardless. It was, in my opinion, something worth sharing. I don’t think anyone that watched it knew that had happened to Clint in his youth. Obviously some deeper research catches flaws in the narrative.
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