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26-09-2007, 12:01 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Captains of the Clouds Just watching this movie with Jimmy Cagney and the usual all star crew. Set in Canada in 1941 at the Central Flying School & Air Navigational School in Trenton Ontario & No1 Bombing & Gunnery School Jarvis Ontario. 10m.jpg
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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26-09-2007, 12:19 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | There's a clip on youtube from the film that used real treainers and trainees. The aircraft shown are Fariey Battle, Anson and Fleet Finch (biplane) - I think I've got them all. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PSIGgHVlGZw I've never seen the film though - is it any good?
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26-09-2007, 01:24 PM
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George Formby, made a film in 1938 about the RAF which was interesting because it was filmed on an actual airfield with real RAF personnel and included a long dead position in the RAF, that of Sargent Major, which was a throwback to the RFC
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26-09-2007, 01:54 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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26-09-2007, 02:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | I've since discovered that Air Marshall "Billy" Bishop made a cameo in the film (suppossed to be the bit when the pilots are awarded their wings).
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26-09-2007, 02:34 PM
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