BBC Production "Billy and the Fighter Boys" !

This past week on the History Channel International channel, we here in the states got to see a wonderful program on the search for a Hurricane shot down in France and meet the pilot , Billy Drake who went with the research team to France to see what was left of his crashed Huricane. One fantastic program and very well done… just amazing he was still able to visit the crash site and talk about his days in the RAF ! The program will run again on Sunday afternoon at 12:00pm est for those who wish to see it on History International . Always enjoy documentaries like this ..its like a video edition of FLYPAST. The program also featured a restoration historian on the Isle of White ??? Hope I have this right, who lead the search for this Hurricane and told the story of its pilot and what happend on that day he was shot down!
Its not everyday one can just go out and dig up a world war II aircraft ..well at least not in the states that actually fought in that war now 60 plus years ago ! Glad we got to see it here in the states and hope the Channel 4 documentary on the search for the Douglas Bader Spitfire will play here soon. Hope it can sold on the dvd market as well, another outstanding documentary on crashed WWII aircraft. You fine folks in the Uk are lucky in that your media enjoy doing stories like this and telling history . Not the case as much here in the US. I enjoy collecting these kind of military documentaries which tell the story of individual WW II aircraft & thier crews ! Programs like “The Hurricane that saved London”, ” Time Team Spitfire dig” The missing aircraft of Adrian Warburton have been shown here in the USA . Good television viewing and hope to see more in the future !

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10-11pm — Meet the Ancestors – Billy and the Fighter
Boys.
As flames engulfed the cockpit on May 13, 1940,
British WWII fighter ace Billy Drake wrestled with the
controls of his fighter plane. Rapidly losing height,
he turned the Hurricane upside down and ejected,
plummeting towards the French farmland below, while
German fighters were still firing at him.
Miraculously, Billy made his way to a safe house and
survived the end of the war. More than 60 years later,
Billy–fighter pilot with the legendary 1 Squadron in
the Battle of France–returns to Reims, to the site
where his plane was shot down. Hosted by archaeologist
Julian Richards.