Interesting piece of history, both the loss of Beresford and the footage of his and his aircraft’s recovery.

I wonder if this was filmed today, whether they would show the team and the authorities stood around the back of the truck, discussing the remains of the pilot in such a nonchalant manner ?

Ah that explains it, I saw it on TV this evening and thought how sweet of that old man to be out selling ice creams to all those people queuing for the sales.

Now available on BBC iPlayer

Thanks BBC and Geoffrey Wellum, you brought me to tears.

Drummond was shot down in October not September as implied by the film. Kingcome is back though 🙂

It was shame T1940, however I noticed that Andy Saunders was mentioned in the credits, and the penny dropped, it wasn’t professionally made was it ? 🙂

On an accountancy course, I finished at 16:00 and had an hour to fill before the present Mrs EN830 finished work, so I went for a coffee in a nearby Cafe, the TV was on and I could something major had happened but could hear it because of two foreign waitresses who stood in front of it chatting. So I left the coffee and ran to the car to listen to the radio. I just sat there in shock at what I was hearing, we had been stood in the shadow of the towers 9 months before, when I took Mrs EN830 to New York as a surprise late Christmas present.

Sometime after the attack, I found some black and white film, which I had developed. I had forgotten about the fire in a basement we had witnessed during our visit just below the towers, and photographed the firemen running around, we sat and went through thinking were any of them still alive. I guess we’ll never know!

Great programme, not sure I agree with the RAF officer’s remark that it was a turning point in the war though.

It was good to see the surviving veterans and how well they looked.