In article , Richard Brooks
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Dave Eadsforth wrote:
In article , Richard Brooks
richardbr writes
Eunometic wrote:
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SNIP lots
[and then some]

I suspect that the RAF brass regarded the Amiens raid as (quite
rightly) a unique effort to date, and worthy of recording. It was of
course the RAF film unit, subject to normal secrecy conditions. And
the cameraman was very likely to return by virtue of the fact he was
in a Mossie (must have been a glazed nose variant - and with no
armament or ordnance, so freaking fast...)

I think that we Brits have been too cautious about recording our
efforts. We have a duty to future generations to show how things
were, and I can only applaud the US for having put, for instance,
Hollywood directors on B17s to record it all - and in colour!

Cheers,

Dave

But at least our gallant serving men and women made up for it with their own
private collections. All hail the box Brownie!
Most of those glossy books we own would have been text only.


Richard.

Yup, and more revealing snaps were often sneaked by the little Kodak
'Bantam' 828 concertina front camera, which could fit a tunic pocket,
and was less likely to be snatched by a suspicious Snowdrop.

And, in recent years, some books have come out which could not have been
published just post-war. 'The Forbidden Diaries' by John Spencer, a B-24
navigator, was a particularly fascinating read.

Cheers,

Dave



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Dave Eadsforth