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Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission [Played March 8 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on DVD, Blu-ray™, various VOD platforms.] Christopher Johnson's gripping, factually based, informative, family-friendly, fast-paced, thought-provoking, 90-minute, 2021 historical docudrama that intertwines reenactments of the harrowing, perilous WWII rescue mission of the 4th Emergency Rescue Squadron led by Lt. Royal Stratton to save nine military airmen when their "Dragon Lady" B-29 bomber ditched in the South Pacific in May 1945 with amazing interview snippets with courageous military veterans, including John Logan, John Ree, Jerry Yellin, Edward Goetz, John Misterly, Clay Lacy, Mark Kishego, Lyle Umenhoffer, Milton Robbins, Laverle Westerman, Dale Anderson George Keene, Freeland C. Terpenning, Walter O'Sheppard, Richard Boyce, and Raymond Lee and consists of archival photographs and film clips and commentary by former Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich, actors (such as Marsha Hunt, Janis Paige, and Earl Holliman), Clyde Allen West's son Doug West, Steven Wilcoxon's daughter Shirley Anderson, and Royal A. Stratton's family, including Vickie Nigro, sister Ada Hinkle, nephew Christopher Johnson, and brother Harold.
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