shane.c Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Just watching the docu about Douglas Bader very good, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 thanks for the reminder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Grundy Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I am half way through it and so far the script read by the narrator, not Lord Ashcroft, is very poor........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 If Bader had stuck to his job and kept his mouth shut things would have been better. Dowding and Park had it right, Bader was wrong about big wings (Balbo's) and his opposition to fitting cannon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 If Bader had stuck to his job and kept his mouth shut things would have been better. Dowding and Park had it right, Bader was wrong about big wings (Balbo's) and his opposition to fitting cannon. A couple of years ago I was asked to review a new magazine (Military Times). It was good enough that I took out a subscription until such time as they invited a convicted, time-served deserter from one of the sandpit wars (probably Afghanistan) to give military opinion on a war in which he refused to fight. I (and I know a number of others who served) told them where to stick their subscription. Pity because as I say, it had something useful about it. The first issue (September 2010 iirc, coinciding with the culmination of the Battle of Britain) carried a very good treatise on the battle. It described in detail just how wrong the big wings were, how proponents fudged figures to make them appear to work and so on. It also described how the biggest weapon in the battle was Dowding's and Park's ability to have what they needed, when they needed it and where they needed it, be it just enough pilots in squadrons, just enough aircraft on the ground or in the air, just enough radar cover, etc, etc and how despite the interference of others, they managed to keep juggling the balls to victory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rampant rivet Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Stopped watching after german fighter described as all steel ????? a dissapointing usual dodgy CGI inacurate doc. RR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Grundy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Also the Hurricane 'converted from a bi-plane' with 'flimsy canvas' , quite inexcusable............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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