The Untold Battle of Britain

[winny]

Originally Posted by Zatoichi_Sanjuro

Are they using footage from the 1969 film? It's been so long since I seen it.

I thought the same thing when I saw the trailer for this.. looks very BoB with some CGI cut into it.

[flynlion]

Originally Posted by Zatoichi_Sanjuro

Are they using footage from the 1969 film? It's been so long since I seen it.

It's available on DVD, at least in the states. BoB and Airplane are the only DVDs that I ever watch LoL.

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Zatoichi_Sanjuro

Are they using footage from the 1969 film? It's been so long since I seen it.

Some of the footage is the BoB film, other footage appears to be from "dark blue world"

[Soviet Ace]

They should really find people, who still know how to make a WW2 Warbird as they would have back in the 30s and 40s, and then use them for the movies. (Engine, Frame, Controls, etc. would all be realistic to the time period. It'd be great I think.)

[Gilly]

What an absolutely superb program this was. A real nice mix of war footage, reconstructions and interviews with surviving members of 303 squadron.
If you do get the oppotunity to see this then I highly recommend doing so. The story of Josef Frantisek was brilliant- he was given special dispensation to 'hunt' alone after he broke formation and chased some HE111's back to France! He racked up 17 kill during the BOB and was sadly killed whilst landing during early October.
A group of real men who once the war was over were sadly forgotten about by the allies. They did not even get to march in the victory parade as the allied feared this would upset Uncle Joe Stalin.

I for one will never forget their sacrifice
My eternal thanks and may your wings carry you through the heavens


It seems this was quite the norm for them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXf1b...=youtube_gdata

[Balderz002]

It was a great docu. Alot of it I have already read about in the book 'For your Freedom and Ours'. Recommended reading to all of you! Nice footage taken from the BoB film, and I would say Dark Blue World - both great films!

[Davedog74]

a good show,the polish were great fighter pilots,ruthless and brave
my only gripe is,and all due respect to frantisek ,yet again eric lock didnt get recognition for the highest scoring allied pilot(20 kills)this has been known for 10 years,
must of used wikipedia for research.

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

Yeah, I agree. I was somewhat cautious of the style of it from the clip but it turned out to be really well put together. Very moving at the end too.

[bobbysocks]

not trying to highjack your thread ZS. but its BoB stuff and i thought this would be the best place to put it. found this today....think it changes each day. is from the RAF benevolent fund.

http://www.1940chronicle.com/

[bobbysocks]

if you are near london on friday you might want to see this!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/mosl...#ixzz0wexWoyci