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Old 24th Nov 2021, 11:58
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212man
 
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Originally Posted by CAEBr
Watched it but wasn't overly impressed. The reconstructions of certain activities were all very pristine and didn't reflect the conditions endured. What really grated with me was the actor playing Roger Bushell who seem to be wearing an AG brevet rather than wings, despite them relating how he was shot down while flying a Spitfire
Maybe stop grating a bit - by the time he got there he had already escaped from a train earlier, and spend several months in Prague before being recaptured, so there's a pretty good chance he did not have any of his original uniform. So the depiction was probably even more accurate than it might have been, as borne out by this (Robert Stanford Tuck on left has no brevet at all!):
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