Bomber Boys- BBC 1.
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From the Radio Times
Actor Ewan McGregor and his pilot brother Colin explore the role RAF Bomber Command played during the Second World War, when it co-ordinated raids against Axis targets. The programme traces the obstacles and challenges that were overcome as the Royal Air Force developed the unit over six years of wartime operations and highlights examples of individual heroism and extraordinary collective spirit. Colin also learns to fly the key aircraft of the campaign, the Lancaster bomber.
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BBC One - Bomber Boys (met trailer clip)
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film exploring Bomber Command, a rarely-told story from the Second World War.
The film focuses primarily on the men who fought and died in the skies above occupied Europe, with numerous examples of individual heroism and extraordinary collective spirit, and Colin learns to fly the key aircraft of the campaign: the Lancaster bomber. But this is also the story of a controversy that has lasted almost 70 years.
The programme covers six years of wartime operations, and traces the obstacles and challenges that were overcome as the RAF developed and deployed the awesome fighting force that was Bomber Command. < Show less
Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film exploring Bomber Command, a rarely-told story from the Second World War.
The film focuses primarily on the men who fought and died in the skies above occupied Europe, with numerous examples of individual heroism and extraordinary collective spirit, and Colin learns to fly the key aircraft of the campaign: the Lancaster bomber. But this is also the story of a controversy that has lasted almost 70 years.
The programme covers six years of wartime operations, and traces the obstacles and challenges that were overcome as the RAF developed and deployed the awesome fighting force that was Bomber Command. < Show less
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I quite enjoyed that: some spectacular footage, must be amazing on HD. They didn't let Colin fly the only working Lancaster for takeoff or landing, which is understandable. Ewan had a go at being a Navigator on a training run in a DC-3: on a real WW2 mission, he would have overshot Berlin by "only" 20 miles. 
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IX sank the Tirpitz!
Now if they were 1 minute off and a Lanc flies at 240kts-300kts groundspeed, I only make that 4-5 miles off!
Good program none the less. Nice to see the old girl getting the attention she deserves along with the old boys that flew her and one of the old girls that built her
LJ
Good program none the less. Nice to see the old girl getting the attention she deserves along with the old boys that flew her and one of the old girls that built her
LJ
Yes but being ex 617 was he going to say anything to the production/research team? That will be a no then.
I thought it was quite good, quite thought provoking in places.
I thought it was quite good, quite thought provoking in places.
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Well I didn't I'm afraid. The rot started well before the Tirpitz bit, comparing the bombing of Hamburg with the Nazi Extermination Camps was where I first detected the imprimatur of the Beeb PC police creeping in. This was followed by the airy notion of a simple switch from night bombing of German cities to daylight precision bombing, mainly in France of course, of pre D-Day targets. The inference is of course that such precision bombing could have been carried out throughout. The difference is that air superiority over France in 1944 made daylight raids viable. Unescorted daylight raids over Germany were not. That the Beeb peddles the same old anti BC propaganda is par for the course. That the modern RAF does not feel compelled to denounce it is very sad. The only people to unreservedly defend the Bomber Offensive were the veterans themselves. That is not a comment on them. It is a comment on us, who are lucky that 55573 of them did what they did before dying in the doing of it.
I quite enjoyed that
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Can someone please enlighten me then as to why Sqn Ldr (Retd) Tony Iveson DFC would not be telling the truth??
After all, he is ex 617 Sqn and was on the Tirpitz raid. Having sat next to him at dinner on one occasion his version of events seems to match what the programme showed.
Or is this a Sqn rivalry thing about which aircraft dropped a particular bomb that finished off the Tirpitz?
This is a genuine question as there seems to be a degree of hostility from a couple of posters which is a bit puzzling given the participation and results of the raid?
After all, he is ex 617 Sqn and was on the Tirpitz raid. Having sat next to him at dinner on one occasion his version of events seems to match what the programme showed.
Or is this a Sqn rivalry thing about which aircraft dropped a particular bomb that finished off the Tirpitz?
This is a genuine question as there seems to be a degree of hostility from a couple of posters which is a bit puzzling given the participation and results of the raid?
