[78-L] record siting in the movies

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Fri, 3/22/13, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com> wrote:

From: Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] record siting in the movies
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, March 22, 2013, 11:36 AM

Oh, dear.
Got things mixed up.
No, it was not the U2incident that wasthe case here: the story was about 
a wartime situation. If the pilot was shot it must have been by mistake; 
heprobably hadengin trouble. So the fact hat he was treated well wasnot 
a big surprise. The Capitol disc was, though.
Kristjan

(BTW: Who won the war? Wasn't it the Chinese?)

In theory we - The Allies - won.  Economically I'd say Germany & Japan....  At least until th EU.

How the blazes did an American get shot down over Siberia???  Only thing might have had the range was the B29, and we were using them on the Japanese.  I know we sent fighters to the Russians, to be reassembled on arrival but never heard that we sent B29's.  Perhaps this is another Untold Story from WW2????

Mike in Plovdiv




On 2013-03-22 12:06, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 22/03/13 10:50, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> I think I've mentioned this before, but watching a Russian theatre
>> performance in Gothenburg some years ago - the play was about an
>> American soldier shot down over Siberia during WW II and how he,
>> surprisingly, was treated well by the village people and even had a love
>> affair with one of them - I was even more surprised to see the villagers
>> playing a Capitol label 78 on the horn gramophone.
>> As the import of US popular records to this part of Russia probably was
>> minimal at the time the pilot must have managed a really soft landing
>> with his parachute and its musical content.
>> Don't remember the tune, though.
>> Kristjan
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> How would an American soldier (airman?) get to a position of being shot
> down in Siberia during WW2? I thought Russia was an ally? Perhaps they
> were using the Gary Powers-U2 incident as a storyline?
>
>        Julian Vein
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