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Storm IV Twin-Pod Cloud Car http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Storm_IV_Twin-Pod_cloud_car http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Storm_IV_Twin-Pod_cloud_car

• digi_owl 9y ago
  Quite a bit of Star Wars took cues from WW2.
  • ahartmetz 9y ago
    Going off on a little tangent here... I always wondered how Lucas came up with some of his weird but convincing fantasy names. It is because many are obscure-ish real names. Young George Lucas was into cars and World War 2. Aunt Beru: Beru made spark plugs. Planet Hoth: Hoth was a German general.
  • rwmj 9y ago
    All of the "red leader" stuff is directly lifted from another film - the Battle of Britain (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/. Watch the dogfight sequence and see if it doesn't remind you of Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk5gMaCq8GE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk5gMaCq8GE
    • simplicio 9y ago
      Some of the dialogue for the Death Star attack scenes were taken directly from "The Dam Busters", a WWII movie depicting the Allied attack on a heavy water producing German controlled damn that required specialized weapons to be delivered in a highly specific attack run.
      • rjsw 9y ago
        The dams didn't have anything to do with the production of heavy water, they just provided power for factories in the Ruhr area.
        • simplicio 9y ago
          Ah your right, apologies. I was getting Operation Chastise (an attack by specialized bombers on the Ruhr valley hydroelectric dams and the subject of the movie) confused with Operation Freshman (an attack by commandos on a German controlled dam in Norway that produced heavy water).