September 19, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Sorry for the poor quality of these pics, but all I could do was take pictures of my tv-screen as I only have this sequence on video and not on dvd. This is from the “The Blenheim Story” video and I’m sure I have this on at least one further video, perhaps “The War in the Air”. Most likely taken during the Battle of France it shows the final seconds of a striken Blenheim crashing into the ground. However, only a second before the final impact one can see a parachute developing in the upper right corner of the tv-screen – one crew member got out! Perhaps someone here can put a name to a crew member who escaped death by seconds.