It was a surprise to see that William Wyler (Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, Funny Girl) accompanied the US air force on a mission and got to film them in action. Must've been quite the exhilarating experience.

One thing that caught my attention was the part about their superiors raising the number of missions that they had to carry out. It reminded me of "Catch-22" (wherein the superiors keep ordering the pilots to fly more and more missions).

Anyway, "The Cold Blue" is a good documentary. A story like you can't imagine.

Its a monumental presentation of one of the most heiroic war machines ever made, the b-17 bomber ship,and the crews using them up in the cold blue, as presented by on scene documentary makers in 1944. its a historical document of high value, most of it in colour. its a must see if your into war history thinks the grumpy old man

This film start with a man "Bud" singing, and a video footage about the 8th Air Force scene! As turnout, this film is about the 8th Air Force B-17 pilots' mission in Germany! Entire film quite slow, and full of annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the narration scene, overuse of the airplane flying scene, overuse of the blackout scene, and overuse of the article scene! Make the film unwatchable! At the end, a bunch of survive B-17 pilots been interviewed! Still have a post credit scene! A video footage of Bud's interview! That's it! Wasting time to watch!