WW2 desert Hurricane pilot

biltongbru · #1 09-23-2011, 09:31 PM

Hi

I met a ww2 fighter pilot, Stewart "Bomb" Finney, who flew Hurricanes and Spitfires in North Africa 1941-1942 with SAAF 1 Squadron. His memory is excellent and I interviewed him on camera. To make the interviews interesting I added some IL-2 animation, including bits of CoD.

Here an example: (5 minutes) Thanks to Cheruskerarmin for the SAAF hurricane skins, they look awesome! Used the great maps from Redko and dirt runway dust mod from Exhaton and Soccorrista, thanks again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf5ebCzzMOE

Mr. Finney has a heap of war time photographs. I made a web site to present the photographs, videos and other interesting and relevant stuff including his log book:

http://www.bombfinney.com/

Any questions to Mr. Finney are welcome as I see him often.

Pitti · #2 09-23-2011, 09:49 PM

Thank you very much for your hard work!
I watched all your interviews with Heinz Migeod and so I will do with these ones.

jayrc · #3 09-23-2011, 09:54 PM

thanks for sharing

Jugdriver · #4 09-23-2011, 10:03 PM

Great Stuff!

Winger · #5 09-23-2011, 10:15 PM

Superb! thanks for sharing! The end was quite suddely. I could have listened for hours

Winger

#6 09-24-2011, 07:19 AM

Love your interviews. Thanks alot.

DUI · #7 09-24-2011, 07:47 AM

Just done with the whole series - followed your interview with great pleasure!

Rickusty · #8 09-24-2011, 07:55 AM

Great Biltongbru!
I watched all the Migeot interviews and they were superb.
I will watch these as well. We should try to find as many veterans as possible, as there are so few of them nowadays.
Thank you for having put that in practice.

Cheers
Rick

biltongbru · #9 09-24-2011, 08:59 AM

Thanks everyone; I love doing interviews with these gentlemen;

Interesting how issues that we wonder about on our forums get solved by hearing from them who were there; I remember the issue on the realism of "curly" gun bullet smoke trails and different colours of tracer; definitely being confirmed with our gentleman.

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Originally Posted by Rickusty

Great Biltongbru!
I watched all the Migeot interviews and they were superb.
I will watch these as well. We should try to find as many veterans as possible, as there are so few of them nowadays.
Thank you for having put that in practice.

Cheers
Rick

Yes thanks and please hold thumbs for an interview with Rommel's desert driver, mr von Leipzig; he is still living and hope to interview him in Namibia. (Ex Brandenburger and RK bearer)

major_setback · #10 09-24-2011, 09:51 AM

Thanks!!
Excellent quality interview and website.