Hello!

Here’s some nostalgic New Year’s fun: Michael McQuarrie sends along a great feature documentary that we reviewed when it was packaged with the feature  Alfie … with terrific film clips and even better music, it lets Michael Caine explain the Brit Revolution of the ’60s, swinging London, the entire scene.

Helping Caine are Roger Daltrey, David Hockney, Jean Shrimpton, Donovan, Paul McCartney, Marianne Faithful, Mary Quant and even Twiggy, plus other models, fashion photographers, fashion designers, etc.

It’s all there with excellent color and sound on tubi.tv:

Here’s something I wish I could have looked through with my father: a full Pilot Training Manual from the Army Air Corps in World War II, for the B-25 Mitchell Bomber.

It’s 171 pages that can get YOU ready to join Doolittle on his big raid!  Or something to that effect.

It reads like a New Car manual crossed with a Boy Scout manual … with a technical explanations for everything, and operative instructions for imagined missions. It’s pretty exacting.

How strange, my dad had to fight that war for a little less than four years … but I’ve been imagining his experience for 60 years. The questions I wish I could ask him …

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson