Community Calendar
Special Screening of The Cold Blue
at the Air Force Museum Theatre
The October Living History Film Series event for 2018 will feature the film The Cold Blue on October 10th at 6:30 p.m. at the Air Force Museum Theatre, located inside the National Museum of the U.S. Air ForceTM. Tickets for this event are $12 for adults, $10 for military or Members of the Museum and can be purchased by clicking here. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Special guest speakers Paul “Bud” Haedike, a former B-17 bombardier, and Peter Hankoff, the film’s producer, will be attendance, sharing stories and insights into the film and the real-life experiences of those brave crews.
The Cold Blue is a meditation on youth, war and trauma. The film was constructed using never seen before outtakes of William Wyler’s original 1944 Memphis Belle® documentary that were discovered deep in the National Archives. Throughout the film, interviews from nine surviving veterans of the 8th Air Force who flew multiple missions during the Second World War are woven into the footage to take the viewer back to the harrowing world Wyler captured on film.
The 2018 Living History Film Series is presented by Gold Series Partner Cassano’s Pizza King and supported by Holiday Inn Dayton-Fairborn and Taft. Combining film screenings with dynamic speakers, veterans and film makers we bring aviation history alive on stage and on the theatre’s six-story screen. Tickets are available at the theatre's ticket counter, can be ordered online through our website afmuseum.com/livinghistory or by calling 937-253-4629.
The Air Force Museum Theatre is operated by the Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc., a Section 501(c)(3) private, non-profit organization that assists the Air Force in the development and expansion of the facilities of the National Museum of the United States Air Force. For more information on the Air Force Museum Foundation, visit www.afmuseum.com. The Air Force Museum Foundation is not part of the Department of Defense or any of its components and it has no governmental status.
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, is the world’s largest military aviation museum. With free admission and parking, the museum features more than 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space. Each year about one million visitors from around the world come to the museum. For more information, visit www.nationalmuseum.af.mil.