Bomber Boys- BBC 1.
 

New prog for 9pm Sunday 5th Feb. trailer looks good.

Is that a repeat of the previous programme, or sequel, or totaly new and different?

New prog from the BBC. Previous was CH5.

From the Radio Times

Don't think it's new! Think it might have been on BBC3 or BBC4! I'm sure I've seen the MacGregor boys doing this already.

Foldie:ooh:

They did a Battle of Britain thingy a while back foldy, but this I'm fairly sure is new....

That's correct

It's new......enjoy!:ok:

Ah, that's it!

Foldie:ooh:

It was filmed last summer at White Waltham with a little help from Air Atlantique.

BBC - BBC One Programmes - London Schedule, Sunday 5 February 2012

BBC One - Bomber Boys (met trailer clip)
More info:
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Bollocks,

IX sank the Tirpitz!

Ivor:ok:

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. :8

Yes, it was a reasonable programme until the Tirpitz garbage. Any historian will confirm that it was a IX(B) Sqn Lancaster that dropped the bombs that sank it!

Now if they were 1 minute off and a Lanc flies at 240kts-300kts groundspeed, I only make that 4-5 miles off! :8

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 :ok:

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.

PS. Waaah! RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary

bnt:
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.

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? :confused:

Nothing about Halifaxes, Stirlings, Mossies, the Pathfinder force, loads of other things..