ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
There is no way that Harry Bailey could have gone to war and saved the life of every man on that transport. Assuming the timeline in the movie is correct, Bailey graduated from high school in 1925 or 1926 (an assumption made upon both the popularity of the Charleston at his high school graduation and the fact that the run on the banks occurred after his college graduation). Since he wasn't career Nvay (he got the fuck out of Bedford Falls to work for his father in law in Buffalo), there's no way, even had his eyesight held up, that he would be accepted into flight school as a 33 or 34 year old in 1942. Harry Bailey spent the war behind a desk in San Diego or Norfolk. Every man on that transport died, and it didn't matter whether George Bailey had been born or not.
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