Longest day

No worries 🙂

Yeah, the ‘108 page worked. Nice stuff there. Can never get enough ‘108 porn! :p

Sorry, bum steer!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056197/trivia

a little over halfway down

Daz, somehow I locked that site and this one together (I must have been tired:o)

did the original Me108 site work?

I guess MH434 didn’t fly in the film as I appear to have woken up Mark12!:D

Baz

The owners were COGEA and they towed targets, I recall the civil regs were in the sequence OO-ARA to ARJ. No doubt it is all in THE BOOK because many are todays survivors.

It is, they are. 🙂

Mark

I was on a primary school trip to Belgium and it was one of my earliest spotting mysteries until several years later the answer appeared in Air Pictorial.
We called into Ostend airport and there were two Spitfires in WW2 markings looking ready to fly, no one believed me back home.

The owners were COGEA and they towed targets, I recall the civil regs were in the sequence OO-ARA to ARJ. No doubt it is all in THE BOOK because many are todays survivors.

Daz

Four Spitfires were used in the strafing sequence. They were all ex-Belgian target tugs and all were MK9’s. The serial no.s were MH415, MK297, MK923 and MH434 and all are still extant. Baz

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47310…+%28Parte+3%29

MH434?

Daz

Four Spitfires were used in the strafing sequence. They were all ex-Belgian target tugs and all were MK9’s. The serial no.s were MH415, MK297, MK923 and MH434 and all are still extant. The Spitfires were assembled and co-ordinated by former free French Spitfire pilot Pierre Laureys who flew with 340 Squadron, a free French unit in the RAF. The 4 Spitfires were of course re-painted in 340 Squadron markings. Spitfire MK923 was between 1963 and 1998 owned by film actor and Oscar winner Cliff Robertson.

Baz

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47310…+%28Parte+3%29

That link doesn’t work, Baz.

I didn’t think MH434 was used in a film until Operation Crossbow, which was a couple of years later? She was flying in Tim Davies’ ownership at that point.

May have been a SNCO pilot during the Battle, then commissioned later in the war?

They would never have got Richard Burton to play an NCO – what a come down from Mark Anthony!
Mike

Re: The medal ribbons check out the ribbons for the DFC/DFM and AFC/AFM some go one way some go the other and I can’t remember which is which off hand. Also the DFC/DFM ribbon is purple and white the AFC/AFM is red and white.

Yes – don’t know why I failed to find the AFC when looking, He is wearing DFC/AFC – the medals have the stripes only half the width of the crosses and the on screen definition is good enough to see the difference. Can’t tell the colours – B&W film.
DFC/DFM go from bottom left to top right
Thanks.
Mike

Yes, that didn’t ring very likely, either, unless he had been wounded and off ops for along time.
Mike

May have been a SNCO pilot during the Battle, then commissioned later in the war?

Daz

Four Spitfires were used in the strafing sequence. They were all ex-Belgian target tugs and all were MK9’s. The serial no.s were MH415, MK297, MK923 and MH434 and all are still extant. The Spitfires were assembled and co-ordinated by former free French Spitfire pilot Pierre Laureys who flew with 340 Squadron, a free French unit in the RAF. The 4 Spitfires were of course re-painted in 340 Squadron markings. Spitfire MK923 was between 1963 and 1998 owned by film actor and Oscar winner Cliff Robertson.

Baz

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47310…+%28Parte+3%29

One thing that intrigued me about the film – Richard Burton (in the on-screen credit dubbed as ‘Flight Officer’ – a WAAF rank equivalent to Fl/Lt, of course – but wearing the rank braid of a Flying Officer) was wearing two medal ribbons on his BD. One was presumably the DFC (black and white film, of course) but the other ribbon was DFC style but with the diagonal markings running the other way to a DFC. I can’t find any ribbon which was so arranged – was it another goof?
Mike

Re: The medal ribbons check out the ribbons for the DFC/DFM and AFC/AFM some go one way some go the other and I can’t remember which is which off hand. Also the DFC/DFM ribbon is purple and white the AFC/AFM is red and white.

and what about the lack of promotion since the Battle of Britian? Obviously a victim of too many mess urine ups……:diablo:

Yes, that didn’t ring very likely, either, unless he had been wounded and off ops for along time.
Mike

and what about the lack of promotion since the Battle of Britian? Obviously a victim of too many mess urine ups……:diablo:

One thing that intrigued me about the film – Richard Burton (in the on-screen credit dubbed as ‘Flight Officer’ – a WAAF rank equivalent to Fl/Lt, of course – but wearing the rank braid of a Flying Officer) was wearing two medal ribbons on his BD. One was presumably the DFC (black and white film, of course) but the other ribbon was DFC style but with the diagonal markings running the other way to a DFC. I can’t find any ribbon which was so arranged – was it another goof?
Mike

Film was on TV the other day.

Didn’t I see some Skyraiders in there at one point too?

Rod

Oh yes, two if I remember correctly.

The Spanish had both 108s and ‘109s’

here:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/473104/message/1263994996/Messerschmitt+BF-108.+Taifun+en+Espa%F1a+y+otros+paises+%28Parte+3%29

Baz

I’ll need to check that out later. Didn’t realise the Spanish operated ‘108s as well!

Film was on TV the other day.

Didn’t I see some Skyraiders in there at one point too?

Rod

Was Hitler really asleep during the invasion or was that propaganda?

Apparently it was true, but he was in a real bad mood after he woke up and found out about it!

The Spanish had both 108s and ‘109s’

here:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/473104/message/1263994996/Messerschmitt+BF-108.+Taifun+en+Espa%F1a+y+otros+paises+%28Parte+3%29

Baz

That’s what I thought as well…