Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 2, 2025 Posted December 2, 2025 British bomber group 1941, about 42 minutes, target an oil storage yard hidden in a forest...and NO ACTORS. NO NARRATORS. They put together a documentary from bits and pieces of actual footage, and made it watchable because it looks like a war movie, only better. They showed things I've never seen before. A two engine bomber that I haven'y had time to identify A ground control bunker with a tin roof covering a "plastic" hemispherical dome, the operator standing on a stool to see out. Maps and wall charts, and paper everywhere. No radios but a lot of telephones with very long cords. A wounded navigator laying on the steel floor of the bomber with no heat. One pilot's seat. The co-pilot radio operator has the climb over the pilot while the"Skipper" goes back to check on his man.to check on his man. Crossing the Channel in the dark and looking for somethingto show them where they were. Discovering that they are of they turn to find another marker. Setting the forest on fire to light it up so they could keep the Germans busy while they made run to bomb the tank farm. One-on-one gunfight with heavy machine guns on the ground (NO FIGHTERS protecting the target). One plane (with the wounded man)drops back and comes in slow and low. Runway lights are lit by a man with a torch igniting containers of fuel. Lots of other things that I'm going to have to go back and see again. I bought two sets of four films each called War Classics from the Prescott Valley library. If any of the rest are near as good it will be worth the $1.50 per package that I paid from the DVDs for sale shelf. It made me fell like I was really there, only warmer and with a sandwich and sarsaparilla by my side.
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 2, 2025 Posted December 2, 2025 Darned good little film. I watched it about a year ago on Amazon Prime. Thanks for reminding me abuse it.
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted December 2, 2025 Posted December 2, 2025 The plane was a Vickers Wellington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellington
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