Subdeacon Joe Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 I don't recall how I came across this film. If it was recently posted here by someone else, please accept my apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Were those Douglas A-20 bombers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Look ups 'Star Wars Canyon' in Ca. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 8 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Were those Douglas A-20 bombers? Sort of, they were the British variant the Boston, it lacked the rear turret and the heavier forward firing machine guns of the A-20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Ventral gunner position was just an open plexiglass shield as opposed to a turret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Chantry said: Sort of, they were the British variant the Boston, it lacked the rear turret and the heavier forward firing machine guns of the A-20. Ha! Went searching after reading your post. That's what was throwing me off. Without the rear turret it doesn't look the same. I'll bet that was one cold SOB of a place to be at most altitudes over fifteen feet and in the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 At 1:47, just after they've left the island and headed out into the channel, the narrator either says "those soft cliffs" or "those salt cliffs". Did anyone understand which he said? Being they were white, I assumed they were the cliffs at Dover. Wiki says the cliffs at Dover are white because they are chalk. I be puzzled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 34 minutes ago, Alpo said: At 1:47, just after they've left the island and headed out into the channel, the narrator either says "those soft cliffs" or "those salt cliffs". Did anyone understand which he said? Being they were white, I assumed they were the cliffs at Dover. Wiki says the cliffs at Dover are white because they are chalk. I be puzzled. I thought he said “chalk cliffs”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 The planes had the Cross of Lorraine. The Free French had their own planes???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: The planes had the Cross of Lorraine. The Free French had their own planes???? RAF had various foreign units in it. Free French and Poles mostly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Here's a couple you might like. A commercial, then the filming. JHC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 A few times I expected them to hit the truck with his left outside propeller. So the message given is that if you throw a lump of garbage out your window in Texas, they will fly a large 4-engine bomber 15 feet above the highway, and with the prop wash scatter the trash over three acres? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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