49th Parallel DVD cover.
Movie (1941)
U.S. title: The Invaders
French title : 49e Parallèle
Starring:
Richard George (Kommandant Bernsdorff)
Eric Portman (Lieutenant Hirth)
Raymond Lovell (Lieutenant Kuhnecke)
Niall MacGinnis (Vogel)
Peter Moore (Kranz)
John Chandos (Lohrmann)
A Nazi U-boat attempts to sneak up on a small Canadian village. They are spotted and destroyed by bomber planes, but not before six men escape to the shore. These men now have to find a way to get back home without being captured.
Lockheed Hudson III[]
Reg. OY-F Royal Canadian Air Force Lockheed Hudson Mk.III from squadron 11.
Reg. OY-P serial 778 Royal Canadian Air Force Lockheed Hudson Mk.III from squadron 11.
Westland Lysander[]
Lockheed Hudson & Douglas B-18 Digby[]
Two short footages with a mix of three Lockheed Hudson leading three Douglas B-18 Digby.
Douglas B-18A Digby I[]
These are the bombers which sank the Nazi U-37 Submarine.
Reg. PB-D serial 744 Douglas Digby Mk.1 from squadron 10, Royal Canadian Air Force. Her fate occurred on 29th of December 1941 when she crashed on the sea before the movie was on theater !
Fairchild 71C[]
This is the floatplane the Germans took over to get back home.
Registration CF-BJE, serial no. 1203.
Same aircraft also seen in The Saint (TV Series) - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Reg.CF-BJE Fairchild 71C of Canadian Airways Ltd .
Reg.CF-BJE Fairchild 71C of Canadian Airways Ltd .
Reg.CF-BJE Fairchild 71C of Canadian Airways Ltd .
Reg.CF-BJE Fairchild 71C of Canadian Airways Ltd .
Reg.CF-BJE Fairchild 71C of Canadian Airways Ltd .
This is the plane the Germans crashed. This is just a set with a different registration (CF-A??). Note the real aircraft was lost at landing in May 1943.
Reg. CF-A.
Lockheed 14-H2 Super Electra[]
Reg. CF-TCH Lockheed 14-H2 c/n 1471 OF Trans Canada Airlines. Built in 1938 and crashed on landing on 21st of October 1957. Repaired but another belly-landing on 9th of July 1959 led to be scrapped in January 1960. Was N66578 in 1953 before flying in Peruvian skies in 1954 then was back in Canada with her first registration.
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