None Less Than Heroes: The Honor Flight Story is a 43-minute film about the sponsored flight of IowaWorld War II veterans to Washington, D.C. in August 2010 to view the National World War II Memorial.[1] This was only one of many such flights provided to veterans over a period of more than two years.[2][3][4]
None Less Than Heroes: The Honor Flight Story
Directed by
Ken Heckmann
Written by
Marshall Riggan
Narrated by
Gary Sinise
Release date
November 1, 2011 (2011-11-01)
Running time
43 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The documentary was written by Marshall Riggan, produced by Jeff Ballenger and Dean Nolen, produced and directed by Ken Heckman, with war footage from the National Archives, and narrated by actor Gary Sinise, it covers the August 15 through 18 trip to the Memorial, first showing them honored at a banquet hosted by Hy-Vee in Des Moines, Iowa, followed by their boarding a 747 Jumbo Jet, some in wheelchairs, others with oxygen tanks, then their arrival in D.C., greeted during their transport in buses from the airport by crowds waving flags and holding signs, their tour of the National World War II Memorial at the western end of the reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, with stops at Arlington National Cemetery, the Vietnam War Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the United States Marine Corps Pacific Memorial, and finally the return home.
Several interviews of veterans are interspersed during the film. Still and motion picture photography of war scenes are included.
The film was released on DVD in November 2011, with proceeds supposedly going to support "additional Honor Flights to Washington, D.C. for surviving World War II veterans."[5]
Referencesedit
^"Screening of Remarkable Documentary", Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska Legion, Image of DVD displayed, stills from film, photos of producers, January 8, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2012. Press Release
^"Documentary traces honor flight experience" Archive of Des Moines Register
^Omaha World-Herald, Sunday, December 11, 2011, article "DVD sales fund war memorial trips".
^"Honor Flight DVD Raises Money for Trips to DC Memorial" CBS 2 Archives
^WHO-TV review WHO-TV, November 9, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
External linksedit
None Less Than Heroes: The Honor Flight Story at IMDb
Official Honor Flight website
January 01, 1970
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