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Re: Celestial Navigation in the Movies
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2016 Dec 5, 16:30 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2016 Dec 5, 16:30 -0800
Here's an earlier description:
"there is one WW II naval movie (can't remember the title) where John Wayne is shown taking a cut with a sextant while standing on the bridge wing. After the cut is taken he turns the sextant to its side and looks at the sextant's arc and calls out the lat and lon."
--source: http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/w28276 posted by Doug Royer in April 2006. Later re-tellings on NavList may be influenced by this earlier description. No one seems to recall the actual film. There was another similar story in the archives except in that case the mariner with the magic sextant was played by Errol Flynn.
Frank Reed
