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Movie (1945)
French title : La grande aventure
Starring:
Richard Attenborough (David Wilton)
Jack Watling (John Aynesworth)
David Tomlinson (Smith)
Edward G. Robinson (Dean McWilliams, the USAAF fitter)
Synopsis Needed
Avro Anson Mk 1[]
33 / MG08 ?
Identification[]
Identification 3-view chart of the Messerschmitt Me 264.
1 : Dornier Do 17;
2 : Unidentified twin-engine;
3 : Messerschmitt Bf 109 ("it's a 111" is the wrong answer given by Aynesworth);
4 : Focke-Wulfe Fw 190A;
5 : maybe a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka ?
de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth[]
First appearance in close foreground allowing to see some lettering on the fin flash and the rudder : unusual !
First pratical flying exercise. Note the folding top (not used here) for the future training according instrument flying rule procedure.
North American T-6[]
Training is now in the United States of America filmed at Falcon Field (Arizona), near Mesa.
Boeing-Stearman Model 75[]
Unidentified Aircraft[]
(bottom) Unidentified Desk Model
Avro Anson (Mk V?)[]
Navigational training in Canada.
Barrage balloon[]
Back in the United Kingdom, an unraised barrage balloon seen from the train.
Avro Lancaster B Mk.I/Mk.III[]
Fictionnal 522 Squadron.
Armourer ready to load some 4,000-lb HC bomb.
Squadron code OJ is for No. 149 Squadron RAF which converted to the type on August 1944.
The large blister under the rear fuselage is the H2S, a ground-looking navigation radar system.
Messerschmitt Bf 110[]
White dots to underline the Bf 110 shape.
Avro Lancaster B Mk.I/Mk.III[]
Ditching sequence.
Badly hurt by the flak, several engines stopped or burning, the crew prepares for a water landing.
The rear gunner is creeping to join the crew in a forward station.
The bomber left, the sea is closer and closer, seconds before the impact.
Crash position.
Airframe flooded nearly to sink.
Unidentified Aircraft[]
The life raft is deployed and the seven men climb aboard. One of them is sculpting a single engine fighter.
Douglas Boston[]
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