A bit late I know, but currently watching "What The Dambusters Did Next" on Channel 5 with John Nichols (1st Gulf War POW) very interesting, may be available later on IPlayer or similar?
I've just received a note from the FAAM about an episode of Defenders of the Sky about the history of Yeovilton. It's on the History 2 channel on Thursday. Having then looked for it on my sky box I found this is episode 10 so I've started downloading the other episodes. It's a series specifically about the history of individual airfields and their part in the defence of Britain. I started watching the one about Calshot (episode 6 I think).
I haven't finished it yet as the kids got in the way, but it seems to be a nice little series. It covers the historical aspects and usage rather than architecture and archaeology.
I've just received a note from the FAAM about an episode of Defenders of the Sky about the history of Yeovilton. It's on the History 2 channel on Thursday. Having then looked for it on my sky box I found this is episode 10 so I've started downloading the other episodes. It's a series specifically about the history of individual airfields and their part in the defence of Britain. I started watching the one about Calshot (episode 6 I think).
I haven't finished it yet as the kids got in the way, but it seems to be a nice little series. It covers the historical aspects and usage rather than architecture and archaeology.
Has anyone else been watching?
Already discussed in this very thread earlier on (Oh do please keep up dear boy ) -
Just noticed this on shortly - this is STV so could be other times in the rest of the country.
Checked and same time on ITV
DOCUMENTARY: The Day They Dropped the Bomb
On: STV (03)
Date: Wednesday 29th July 2015 (starting in 18 minutes)
Time: 22:40 to 23:50 (1 hour and 10 minutes long)
August 6 1945 marked the start of a terrifying new episode in human history. This documentary marks the 70th anniversary of the day when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by a Boeing B-29 USAF Superfortress bomber, nicknamed Enola Gay after the pilot's mother. Up to 80,000 people - 30 per cent of the population - were killed by the blast and resulting firestorm and over 70,000 were injured. This documentary gives a minute-by-minute account of what happened on that fateful day, through the testimony of people who were there and rarely-seen archive footage from the time. Made on location in Hiroshima and the USA, it features unique interviews with eyewitnesses who have seldom, if ever, spoken about the experience. Several of them are no longer alive, they include the last surviving member of the crew of the Enola Gay - navigator Dutch Van Kirk who died in July 2014.
(Editor's Choice, New, Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles)
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I caught the second half earlier this morning of a documentary on the Nimrod on "movies for men". The only parts of it I really enjoyed was seeing actual film on Nimrods firing Sidewinders.
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