The ‘Memphis Belle’ was the first war film I ever saw with the characters represented by actors actually the age of those that served and died, and not John Wayne or others who where clearly in their late thirties or fourties.
For me it was a refreshing departure from the old hacknied(sp) war films ‘of old’, where mature adults played the parts of youths.

Just my two pennies worth.

Gutersloh and other BFG sites with WWII history.

Does anybody have any information regarding 17 Base Vehicle Depot, Ayrshire Barracks, Monchengladbach which was reputedly a Luftwaffe station before and during WWII. (I lived nearby when I was a kid.) Unfortuantely the only information I can gleen from trawling the net is that it was called Lufthorst Neersen/Wickrath.

Any one have any suggestions or info?

Mutant

The museum in Dumfries is underated, possibly due to it’s remote location! (Not down south that is!!;) ) I last visited the museum in 2004 while on vacation from Canada and found the museum not only has a great collection of static aircraft exhibits, but an incredible archive and collection of aviation artifacts on display within the restored ‘control tower’.

Somewhat co-incidentally, as a student at boarding school in Ipswich during the 1970s, I would hike, ‘hitch’ or cycle out to RAF Woodbridge/Bentwaters whenever I could. You can imagine my suprise, while at Dumfries in 2004, to be re-aquainted with the F-111 escape pod which I used to sit in as a kid! Believe it or not the AFRRES HH-53s would dump the ‘pod’ on the heathland between the main road and the fence of what I presumed was the RAF Woodbridge bomb dump! What’s a fifteen year old lad to do but to climb in!

Thanks for the ‘Heads Up’!
Should be an interesting documentary.

Flex297,

I must agree with your comment. The excuse that the fragile democratic government of Lebanon failing to curb the activities of a domestic terrorist organisation is an excuse for attack/invasion can be compared to the UK/Eire and the IRA. Using the same logic as Israel what should have been the consequences of The Guilford/Birmngham pub bombings, Harrods and Manchester? Would we be looking at air strikes on Dublin and Shannon airports and wholesale destruction of the Irish infrastructure?

Oh, and this whole thing kicked off because of a number of kidnappings. Israel has kidnapped and assasinated non-Israeli nationals in other sovereign countries with impunity with little or no comment and definitely little retaliation when it has involved ‘western powers’. Remember, Israel can and does operate under it’s own set of rules.