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Black Sheep Squadron
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 8:28 am
by trafix
I have been trying to find on the UV map where places are that were referenced in the TV series Black Sheep Squadron. I think Espritos Marcos and Vella LaCava were mentioned in the series, but I cannot find them on the map.
I know TV has a tendancy to embelish history a little
so let me know if they really don't exist or just not on the map.
Thanks
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 8:43 am
by von Murrin
Might they be Espiritu Santo and Vella Lavella?
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 8:47 am
by trafix
That's kinda my thinking too. The series may have changed them a little, as I am pretty sure they were refered to as Espritos Marcos and Vella LeCava.
I hate it when history is not portrayed properly.
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 7:54 pm
by Admiral DadMan
Originally posted by trafix
That's kinda my thinking too. The series may have changed them a little, as I am pretty sure they were refered to as Espritos Marcos and Vella LeCava.
I hate it when history is not portrayed properly.
Originally, the show was called, "Baa Baa Black Sheep".
They took a lot of things out of context on that show.
VMF-214 as the "Black Sheep" had various bases from the Russell Islands to Bouganville.
Here's a link to a brief squadron History:
Black Sheep Squadron: History of the VMF-214
A side note: VMF-214 was the A/G fueling on the flight deck of
USS Franklin when she was hit by the kamikaze/bomb in Mar45
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 9:29 pm
by worr
Originally posted by Admiral DadMan
Originally, the show was called, "Baa Baa Black Sheep".
They took a lot of things out of context on that show.
Last Fall I had breakfast with Bruce Gamble and Alan McCartney. Bruce is their biographer...and Alan had 5 kills with the VMF-214. He said the TV show took some liberties with their lives as Marines...but the one that galled him the most?
"There were no women on those islands!"
Worr, out
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:12 am
by Von_Frag
Originally posted by worr
Last Fall I had breakfast with Bruce Gamble and Alan McCartney. Bruce is their biographer...and Alan had 5 kills with the VMF-214. He said the TV show took some liberties with their lives as Marines...but the one that galled him the most?
"There were no women on those islands!"
Worr, out
Yeh on the History Channel, they did Baa Baa Black Sheep, the series opener for a movie in time. The pilot for 214 (I don't remember his name) critiqueing the movie was really peeved that the series had them all made out to be missfits and screwups.
Von Frag