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La-grande-vadrouille

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Movie (1966)
English title: Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

Starring:
Bourvil (Augustin Bouvet)
Louis de Funes (Stanislas Lefort)
Claudio Brook (Peter Cunningham)
Andréa Parisy (Sœur Marie-Odile)
Colette Brosset (Germaine)
Mike Marshall (Alan MacIntosh)

Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid Nazi captivity.

Morane-Saulnier MS-502 Criquet[]

The Criquet is a Fieseler Storch with a french Salmson engine, built after 1945.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

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Morane-Saulnier MS.502, c/n 389, usually F-BBNP.

Castel C.25S Biarritz[]

French soaring drawn in the middle of WW2.

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Douglas C-47 Skytrain[]

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Footage of archive movie taken during paradropping at the end of WW2. Used during the ending credits.

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress[]

B-17G (s/n 44-8846), F-BGSP until 1985 which was acting again 23 years later in Memphis Belle - look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

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Boeing B-17 playing a british bomber damaged by the german AAA.

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Handley Page H.P.61 Halifax B mk 2[]

Seen during the initial credits, a quick glimpse from a wartime footage.

GrVadrouille HP-Halifax-B-Mk2 CIMG4078

Nose of an Handley-Page Halifax B Mark 2.

Handley Page H.P.61 Halifax B mk 3[]

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Handley-Page Halifax B Mark 3 with the typical new design of its twin tail.

Douglas A-26 Invader[]

Despite views of B-17 and Halifax, the pilot has only two gas activator.

GrVadrouille B-26 CIMG4095

Cockpit from a Douglas B-26.

Unidentified Aircraft[]

What seems to be a Vickers Wellington.

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Maybe a Vickers Wellington.


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