![]() area and was of the right age, that he himself had seen the L.A. It was my suspicion, since Nozaki had been raised in the L.A. The action in Wells' novel was primarily based in London while the movie moved it to Los Angeles, making it in essence a Battle of Los Angeles. The 1953 movie 'War of the Worlds' wherein Nozaki's handiwork appeared, was based on the novel of the same name by H.G. Because of that difference and continuingly being haunted by the similarity between what I saw over my house and what he had designed I decided to seek Nozaki out to see if I could learn the source of his inspiration. For some reason his designs were completely different from typical science fiction movie fare of the day - which were invariably modifications of V-2 rockets, something out of Buck Rogers, or flying saucer disc-like contraptions. Interestingly enough, the flying craft in both of the movies, the Martian war machine at the top the page and the alien mining craft immediately above, were designed by the same man, Al Nozaki (1912-2003), an Oscar nominated art director. ![]() Although the crafts in both movies were lithe and fighter-like, seeing them, in a fleeting shadow-like way, were vaguely reminiscent of the giant object of unknown origin that flew over my house that I saw as a young boy and describe in The Battle of Los Angeles: 1942 UFO. However, the gnawing away aspect of it all was NOT that the 'Robinson Crusoe On Mars' ships and the 'War of the Worlds' ships were similar, BUT that when I saw the mid-60s era ships and finally figured it out, it sent me back to the first time I saw the 'War of the Worlds' flying machines and how strongly seeing them affected me. Then one day, like a name, word, or phrase that suddenly pops out of nowhere after months exhausting yourself trying to recall it, it dawned on me what it reminded me of - the Martian flying war machines in the 1953 movie War of the Worlds. Eventually the gnawing that stemmed from nothing more than a movie was put on hold and faded well back into the recesses of my belly brain. For some reason the crafts were vaguely familiar in a gnawing-away sort of way. In the movie were flying machines apparently used by an alien culture mining Mars. Sometime in the mid-1960s or so I saw a science fiction movie called Robinson Crusoe On Mars. WAR OF THE WORLDS AND THE 1942 BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES ![]() She was eleven feet longer, and with one fewer funnel, accommodated more passengers.ALBERT NOZAKI: War of the Worlds and the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles Passengers were able to cross the Atlantic in luxury in a matter of days-the record was in 3 days & 20 hours, a record that stood until 1952! Her sister ship the RMS Queen Elizabeth was launched on Sept. The RMS Queen Mary took her maiden voyage on with Cunard Lines. ![]() In addition to the self-guided tour, we took the “Glory Days” docent-guided tour focused on the history of the ship, which was exceptional! Today I’ll share some history of the “Queens” as well as photos from my tour of the Queen Mary. I toured the Queen Mary while researching this book. The Queen Elizabeth is no longer with us-the ship caught fire in 1972 and was scrapped, but the Queen Mary is a popular tourist spot in Long Beach, CA. In The Sky Above Us, American Red Cross worker Violet Lindstrom and US fighter pilot Adler Paxton meet while waiting to board the troopship HMT Queen Elizabeth, and they get to know each other-a bit!-on board. Today-the Queen Mary (sister ship of the Queen Elizabeth) To celebrate the release of The Sky Above Us, I’m conducting a photo tour of locations from the novel that I saw on my research trip to England and Normandy.
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