{"id":1214,"date":"2017-05-01T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T23:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2017-05-12T11:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T18:41:52","slug":"8th-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/8th-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My interest in the B-17 Flying Fortress was reawakened when I recently started playing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B-17,_Queen_of_the_Skies\"><em>B-17: Queen of the Skies<\/em><\/a>, though I&#8217;ve just made a quick check of games that I&#8217;ve ordered, and I have THREE other B-17\/8th Air Force games coming in sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcssl.com\/store\/danverssengames\/tabletop-games\/b-17-flying-fortress-leader\"><em>B-17 Flying Fortress Leader<\/em> by DVG<\/a> has been released, and should be in my possession in the coming weeks. \u00a0It was pre-ordered a couple of months ago.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legionwargames.com\/legion_TFT.html\"><em>Target For Today<\/em> by Legion Wargames<\/a> has been produced, and should be shipping fairly soon (June). \u00a0Heck, I think I pre-ordered this one over a year or two ago.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.lnlpublishing.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=249\"><em>A Wing and A Prayer<\/em> by Lock &#8216;n Load Publishing<\/a> should be published\/produced soon. \u00a0It was pre-ordered a few weeks ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though <em>Memphis Belle<\/em> is the movie that really made this bomber popular, \u00a0I remember reading about the 8th Air Force long before that, even before I played my first game of <em>B-17: QotS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was one of Harrison Ford&#8217;s lesser known films,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanover_Street_(film)\"> <em>Hanover Street<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1215\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Hanover_street.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Hanover_street.jpg 446w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Hanover_street-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harrison Ford stars as an American WWII pilot stationed in England who falls in love with a married British nurse (Lesley-Anne Down). When his plane is shot down behind enemy lines, he discovers that the secret agent he must protect is her husband.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I saw this on on cable, once, in 1979-80(?), and then it was on again recently at a Chinese restaurant near work, of all places. \u00a0Ford&#8217;s character flew a B-25 Mitchell instead of a B-17 Flying Fortress. \u00a0The newer games appear to have the B-26 Marauder available, which is historically more accurate from what I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I&#8217;m looking forward to these games, as each has a different take on game play. \u00a0<em>Queen of the Skies<\/em>\u00a0put you in command of a\u00a0single bomber, while a couple of the new ones have you commanding the entire squadron on the bombing run.<\/p>\n<p>And I recently bought a new book on the subject:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Blood-Fears-Americas-Bomber-Force-ebook\/dp\/B01K5J6TUU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1216\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bloodandfears.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bloodandfears.jpg 331w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bloodandfears-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My interest in the B-17 Flying Fortress was reawakened when I recently started playing B-17: Queen of the Skies, though I&#8217;ve just made a quick check of games that I&#8217;ve ordered, and I have THREE other B-17\/8th Air Force games coming in sometime in the near future. B-17 Flying Fortress Leader by DVG has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/8th-air-force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;8th Air Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[156,154,153,147,86,155,157,152],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-media","tag-8th-air-force","tag-a-wing-and-a-prayer","tag-b-17-flying-fortress-leader","tag-b-17-queen-of-the-skies","tag-dvg","tag-hanover-street","tag-memphis-belle","tag-target-for-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}