http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7404052.stm
65th Anniversary today.
Someone must have fixed it !
Guess I'll have to look at the movie tonight and that great music. They were great those guys who flew into the night with four Merlins, some very dodgy explosive technology and coat hangers to aim with.
Mine didn't quite make it past Abbeville on a hedgehopping run. Funny though, at 25 he was the old man of the crew, most being 18.
My second job after leaving school was with the Air Ministry Works Directorate, and I was based at St Vincents, a large house on the edge of Grantham. This had been the control centre for the Dam Busters raid. The operations room for raid was used as a drawing office. There is a moment in the film when the planes have all taken off and Wallis and the others leave for Grantham.
Eric Coates was asked to write the score for the film but refused, and Leighton Lucas took over. Coates, however, had recently written a march and offered it to the film company. Lucas used it extensively in his score. Despite not having been written specifically for the film, the march fits the film like a silk glove.
A couple of years ago I was standing outside the Brymon hangar at Bristol and heard that spine tingling sound - turned to look down the taxiway and there was a Spitfire going full bore 30ft above the taxiway, right past me. just past the hangar she went near vertical and did a victory roll.
Fantastic sight, and sound.
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