Does anyone know about any films from the mid 1960’s that featured a Lancaster with the serial JA928 and the code L (or possibly E) W?
I’ve been told that PA474 with only the rear turret fitted was used in this scheme but it’s completely new to me.
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th November 2018 at 12:49
PA474 was used in the Guns of Navarone as well according to Wikipedia.
By: bazv - 24th November 2018 at 09:24
I am assuming it was 474 which had a brief appearance in the Sqn Ldr Jack Currie programme ‘Lancaster Legend’,although the footage could have been ‘borrowed’ from a previous film/programme.
By: colin.barron - 24th November 2018 at 07:43
That is correct .NX611 was used in ‘A Family at War ‘ in February 1971 while she was at Squires Gate,Blackpool. She also appears in the background of some scenes early in the film ‘Where the Bullets Fly'( 1966) while she was still at Biggin Hill. PA474 appears in some scenes in ‘Pathfinders’ (1972). All PA474 scenes were shot at Waddington though most of ‘Pathfinders’ was shot at West Malling.
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st November 2018 at 22:54
It was nx611 which appeared in “Family at War”
By: Ruhr Rover - 21st November 2018 at 21:10
She also appeared in the TV drama ‘Family at War’
By: inkworm - 21st November 2018 at 20:01
Thanks, I’ll look it up.
By: bradleygolding - 21st November 2018 at 19:41
Operation Crossbow.
Steve
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November 21, 2018 at 6:20 pm