# the whole nine yards **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [February 5, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-nine-yards/527852 "2010-02-05T21:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 48
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-nine-yards/527852/48 "2011-01-26T05:54:44Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > …the group was called the “Flying Tigers” and became the subject of a John Wayne movie by the same name. It’s also the group that a 70s TV show called “Black Sheep Squadron” was based on. About 10 years ago in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=1313576), \*\*Czarcasm \*\*said: > [@"the whole 9 yards revisited"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-9-yards-revisited/65154/9): > > I’m going to rent _Flying Tigers_(1942), because I could have sworn I heard John Wayne utter the line in it. I couldn’t find any mention of the outcome but if the phrase was in there we probably would have heard about it in some of the many discussions on the subject since then. The film was made in 1942 and the next known sighting would still be almost 20 years later making this theory as unlikely as any other version of the WWII ammo belt theory. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-nine-yards/527852)._