The Best Years of Our Lives, a 1946 film that won seven Academy Awards, begins as a trio of World War II combat veterans has hitched a ride to their small hometown on a defanged B-17 Flying Fortress bomber being flown to an airplane junkyard. Like the men themselves, the propeller-driven plane—having performed its duty admirably but sidelined by jet technology—was being disposed of. As they near home, the three crowd into the B-17’s nose where t…
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