Arabella-Cox
August 2, 2008 at 10:07 am

12 o'clock high question?

In 12 o,clock high when the B17 crash lands at the start, was that filmed at Lavenham?. I know they filmed some parts of it at Lavenham because the airfield was in good condition, in 1949. It was the 487th bomb group’s home airfield.

But, does anybody know where they filmed B17 crash:confused:

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http://www.487thbg.org/

looks like today the 487th would have done their 48th mission, bombing the La Briqueterie and Val-des-Joncs V-Weapon sites, France

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By: Good Vibs - 2nd August 2008 at 13:17

I’ve read in an older AAHS Journal an article about making the movie in which they state that they sprayed lots & lots of water on the field and runway to help it look like the “wet” UK.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 2nd August 2008 at 11:00

Thanks, you would’nt have thought it was America in that scene, it looked so much like England.

Thanks again

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By: Pen Pusher - 2nd August 2008 at 10:21

Google is your friend:

Less than a minute from under a photo

Paul Mantz deliberately crash-lands B17G 44-83592 at Ozark AAF, Alabama, in June 1949 for the filming of Twelve O’Clock High

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