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Old 20th Mar 2020, 20:55
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Wartime colour film locations

Can any of you keen-eyed experts help identify some locations in the film below, belonging to/shot by US VIIIth Bomber Command chief General Fred Anderson?

It ends at Ridgewell, but I'm interested in the HQ locations (Pinetree among them, I think) and the other 'big houses'.

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I'm not at all sure but it might be here:High Wycombe | American Air Museum in Britain
I'm a bit doubtful - you could also check out Bushey Park and Bushey Hall.....

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I'm not at all sure but it might be here:High Wycombe | American Air Museum in Britain
I'm a bit doubtful - you could also check out Bushey Park and Bushey Hall.....
Thanks, OUAQUKGF. Some shots do indeed look a bit like Pinetree, but I'm curious about the sequence which shows an RAF party saluting a US senior officer (possibly, but not definitely, Anderson) departing from what was presumably an RAF HQ. Indeed, the accompanying host seems to be a senior RAF officer.

Eighth AF/USSTAF atBushy Park did not include a 'big house' and Bushey Hall is unlikely to have laid on a British saluting party.

The US staff car is carrying a 4-star plate, which only complicates the mix! But I think the location might be RAF Bomber Command HQ – and Robert Saundby the hosting officer.

Incidentally, I suspect the little boy at the start of the film is Winston Churchill (Junior, an MP in the 1980s) with his auntie.
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