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Vincent Riotta played Jimmy Doolittle in Bille August's 2017 film The Chinese Widow aka The Hidden Soldier. Aaron Eckhart played Doolittle in Roland Emmerich 's 2019 film Midway . Bob Clampett 's 1946 cartoon Baby Bottleneck briefly portrays a dog named "Jimmy Do-quite-a-little", who invents a failed rocket ship.
On December 8, 1972, the Boeing 737-222 serving the flight, City of Lincoln registration N9031U, [2] [1]: 2 crashed while approaching Midway Airport. [1]: 1 [3] [4] The plane crashed into a residential neighborhood, destroying five houses; there was an intense ground fire. Forty-three of the 61 aboard the aircraft and two on the ground were killed.
The accident occurred exactly 33 years after United Airlines Flight 553, also a Boeing 737, crashed while approaching Midway Airport, killing 45. [ 17 ] This was the first Southwest Airlines accident in the 35-year history of the company to result in a fatality.
Among the first aircraft shown taking off to defend Midway are two Army P-40 Warhawks. There were no P-40s stationed at Midway, only Marine F4F Wildcats and F2A-3 Buffalos. In the second air attack on Yorktown, the movie shows two Japanese planes crashing into the aircraft carrier. There were no plane crashes into ships in this battle.
Midway is a 2019 war film directed by Roland Emmerich, who also produced the film with Harald Kloser, and written by Wes Tooke. The film covers the first six months in the Pacific Theater of World War II , from the Attack on Pearl Harbor to the titular Battle of Midway .
On September 1, 1961, at 02:05 CDT, the flight crashed into a field south of Clarendon Hills, IL shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport (ICAO: KMDW) in Chicago, killing all 73 passengers and five crew on board; it was at the time the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history. [1] [2]
The opening scene of the film Midway (1976) uses footage from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to launch the film's plot with the Doolittle Raid. In the Seinfeld season 3 episode "The Keys", Kramer mentions to Jerry that he is watching the film. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo inspired The Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo". [19]
In 2019, Tippett filmed the TV movie Patsy & Loretta, playing the role of Doolittle Lynn, Loretta Lynn's husband. The TV film was broadcast on the Lifetime channel on October 19, 2019. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The same year, Tippett was cast as Lucius King in NBC's Prism which is inspired by Rashomon , a 1950 Japanese drama directed by Akira Kurosawa.