Interesting WWII stuff - Some good camera footage
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Secret1
Where on earth were RAF Fighter Command's Spitfires, Hurricanes, Tyhoons, Mosquitos, et al??? I have always understood that a chap in a RAF air(o)plane zapped Rommel's car, not a 'boy from Boise' Idaho or downtown Denver..
For some really good action footage of the RAF in WW2 I suggest you acquire the DVD box set "War in the Air", a series of 15 half-hour episodes screened by the BBC in the early days of black and white television.
It's intensely pro-British (which probably explains why it's not been screened since) but includes some great footage from all combatants.
It's still available from Amazon.
I remember seeing some episodes when I was a trainee in the early 60s.
Polecat
Where on earth were RAF Fighter Command's Spitfires, Hurricanes, Tyhoons, Mosquitos, et al??? I have always understood that a chap in a RAF air(o)plane zapped Rommel's car, not a 'boy from Boise' Idaho or downtown Denver..
For some really good action footage of the RAF in WW2 I suggest you acquire the DVD box set "War in the Air", a series of 15 half-hour episodes screened by the BBC in the early days of black and white television.
It's intensely pro-British (which probably explains why it's not been screened since) but includes some great footage from all combatants.
It's still available from Amazon.
I remember seeing some episodes when I was a trainee in the early 60s.
Polecat
I continue to be amazed by the response from some to really good items, links and comments on this site. I wonder if it's some sort of inferiority thing that no one else ever did it as well as we do/did? Brits having a poke at the Americans, Americans hitting back (maybe fair enough in this case), lots of people piling in and questioning the French, one service smacking another (unless it's Sharkey, obviously, when it's fair game), etc, etc. Why? In this case, I thought we were all on the same side.
Not meant to be a rant, just an observation.
Not meant to be a rant, just an observation.
A quick look at some of the Experimental Airplanes in the USA during WWII.
It's a funny thing, but in more than 50% of the cases you can just tell that a lot of experimental designs are never going to work. Just by looking at them. Still, worth a try.
