James Evans

Very Good, quiet Western; Outstanding relationship between John Saxon and Marlon Brando; Not a must see film, but you won't be disappointed.

I've always felt that the role the Republic P-47 played in WW2 has not been portrayed in film very well. While the aircraft, (affectionately known as "The Jug"), is not my favorite fighter aircraft from that war (that plane is the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair), it's hard not to be impressed by The Jug's size, it's speed, it's high altitude performance, and it's 8-50 caliber guns. If I had been flying an enemy aircraft in WW2, and a flight of "Jugs" was coming to intercept me, I think I would have felt the kind of terror that Republic's design engineers had hoped for. The film, "Fighter Squadron" shows this very well. Semper Fi- Jim Evans