Dad said he recognized some of the situations and characters in the book, but it was years before he came to appreciate Heller’s wise-guy sense of humor. We also inquired about Joseph Heller’s great antiwar novel, Catch-22, which we knew was inspired by the author’s wartime experience flying B-25s out of Corsica. There was an old black binder with a few prints from his days with the 340 th Bomber Group but the motion pictures were nowhere to be found. He did, however, indulge my older brother and me in our fascination with WWII aircraft, particularly the B-25. When I was growing up, my father’s references to his military service were anecdotal he never boasted about his exploits. We were intrigued by additional information Burton Blume was able to add to previously unexamined motion picture records. In this series of posts, Burton Blume relates stories of his father’s experience in the 9th Combat Camera Unit and of making a training film in Corsica that starred Catch-22 author Joseph Heller. He contacted us last year when we featured footage shot by his father, Lt. Today’s post was written by Burton Blume, a brand consultant/creative strategist based in Tokyo, Japan.
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