oh we are in so much trouble it's not even funny. im cool with it. yes exactly gratitude is the attitude.

Thanks for the info mate, I’m giving that a watch.

Hi Dean, thanks for letting us know how you have connected with the film.

Yeah & often these guys had to make do with outclassed aircraft with a lack of supplies & logistics for spare parts.

AFTER MANY YEARS OF RESEARCHING, JUST DISCOVERED MY HALF BROTHER WAS ON MISSIONS WITH THE FAMOUS RAAF 460 SQN , OUT OF BINBROOK. 30 MISSIONS, BEFORE JOINING 199 SQN. KILLED ON LAST WW2 RAID ON GERMANY 3/ 5/1945.

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Your comment reminds me of what people close to Prince Phillip have recalled about him after his death recently, that his generation had a very 'get on with it' mentality, unfortunately, those who didn't fit the mould, who with genuine, what was known as battle fatigue, & is now known as ctpsd, was sadly only really credited after the great war, & even then, many thought it was a load of psychobabble fooey & that those suffering were just straight up malingerers. One of the men I admire, who was deeply affected, & who tried to be a voice for other sufferers was Harold 'Pompey' Elliot, he tried to get greater recognition from the government & top brass, for the way his men were affected by war, he was mostly overlooked & ignored, it wasn't really until long after the way in which our Vietnam Vets came home, that these issues were beginning to be highlighted, aggravatingly, the very machine that signs folks up for war, is quick to fight their individual claims of PTSD when they come home, even though we know participating in the theatre of war is a significant factor in the symptoms. I personally find it heartbreaking that a portion of our vets have felt no other way out of their private hell, than to try to regain peace of mind by ending their pain, which is the same aching solution Pompey Elliot succumbed to all those years ago, as the saying goes, much as things change, the more they remain the same.

Glad you enjoyed it

Glad you enjoyed it!

No problem 👍

ANZACS MATEY.

@Ronald Hinton Yeah, Aleutian all year, Iwo Jima, Luzon, Tarawa, Solomons all walks down picket fenced lanes.

No sir the Australians and NZ people are fierce fighters and we in USA know that

Hi HistJ. This original 35mm film shot in an Academy Ratio (equivalent to a 4:3 ratio) has been recently scanned on a 4K scanner using a technique called overscanning. Scanning of the film frames in this way includes a lot of extra room around the frame such as film sprockets and edges. To present 4:3 images such as this in contemporary widescreen 16:9 frames such as KZfaq we need to pillarbox the images with black bars to the left and right of the frame (letterboxing is black bars at the top and bottom of the frame) which covers the film edges, sprockets etc. This way it is presented in its original aspect ratio. To present it as a full frame 16:9 image would be a distortion of the image. KZfaq automatically pillabroxes 4:3 content uploaded to its platform. By uploading 16:9 digital files we avoid KZfaq doing it automatically. Thank you for your feed back and we will investigate the issue you mention with the ipad playback.

@@NFSAFilms Thank you for your very detailed reply, you obviously know what you are doing. Just for reference, one of my favourite films from NFSA is ”Calling Sydney Harbour” it appears full screen on the iPad. I am guessing here but if you pillar box 4:3 video to 16:9 yourself before you publish to KZfaq it will then appear as pillar boxed AND letter boxed on non 16.9 display devices. But If you simply publish the video in native 4:3 format on KZfaq then KZfaq will pillar box it but only when needed. KZfaq do not distort the original format, as in stretch 4:3 to fill 16:9, as far as I know.

Hi HistJ. Yes Calling Sydney Harbour (great film) is a standard definition digital copy from tape. It was not scanned in any HD aspect ratio at the time so presented in it's true 4:3 aspect ratio (720 x 576). We don't need to pillarbox and if we did we would be pushing an SD file in to a HD ratio and that would actually affect the extant quality of the SD digital copy. Hopefully soon we will be able to do a new scan of that film at 4K and present it in even better quality. Thanks for your interest and please keep watching.

Young Men, were taken in a year into then high performance aircraft with minimal training.. Just inside continental US, 15,000 airmen were killed. www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2019/02/12/staggering_statistics_15000_us_airmen_killed_in_training_in_ww_ii_412.html

Don't think it was Burton I heard no Welsh lilt on vowels

No, Sorry he would have been 9-10 years old at the films issue.

Yes Alistair did narrate this film.And many other film unit films.

@@NFSAFilms I know. I was a voice over artist for 40 years and always enjoyed working with him.

Actually this Alistair Duncan www.imdb.com/name/nm0241892/ Not this Alistair Duncan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Duncan_(actor) So many Alistairs!

@@hb3331 I worked with Alistair a lot and I know it's him. Check the reply from the NFSA.

Numerous references to losses. For example, read John Terraine's book 'The Right of the Line', also Patrick Bishop's 'Bomber Boys', Alastair Revie's 'The Lost Command', Kevin Wilson's 'Men of Air', Larry Donnelly's 'The Whitley Boys' and also John Herrington's two books 'Air War Germany/Italy 1939-43' and 'Air Power over Europe 1944-45'. New crews were definitely at their most vulnerable and often they inherited a well-worn (frequently a synonym for clapped-out) aircraft from a crew that was tour-ex. Stirling crews were particularly vulnerable as, due to thir shorter wingspan, they flew about 4,000 feet lower that the Lancaster & Halifax and were in range of both light and heavy flak. After the first 3-4 missions Bomber Command aircrew morale increased until around the 13th op and gradually decreased thereafter. Understandable so, given that statistically they were unlikely to survive a full tour of 20 ops. Experienced crews often flew a little higher than the majority and were therefore above the height-settings on the flak shells. However, your contention that flak was more effective than the Luftwaffe night fighters is not borne out by the statistics. According to Edward Westermann's definitive book, 'Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defences 1914-1945', in the period July 1942 to April 1945, flak downed 1,345 aircraft, whilst the nightfighters shot down 2,278 aircraft. Therefore, nightfighters accounted for 59% of Bomber Command's losses as against 41% by flak, a ratio of 1.69:1. Flak did however cause greater damage to RAF bombers, at a ratio of 5.1:1, though that damage was not catastrophic in nature.

@@chrisweeks6973 Are they any stats on "Schräge Musik", this has often been written about as quite catastrophic for the British bomber due to a lack of ventral defensive weapons. However, I lifted this from Wiki:' "Freeman Dyson, who was an analyst for Operations research of RAF Bomber Command in World War II, commented on the effectiveness of Schräge Musik: The cause of losses... killed novice and expert crews impartially. This result contradicted the official dogma... I blame the ORS and I blame myself in particular, for not taking this result seriously enough... If we had taken the evidence more seriously, we might have discovered Schräge Musik in time to respond with effective countermeasures. - Freeman Dyson" Given Freeman Dyson's reputation, I think it is most likely true. Although, apparently, early losses to "Schräge Musik" were often attributed to flak.

There are some really good reading resources out there, I've read a lot on WW2, but one of my favorites, (on WW1) have to be two by a little known author named Max Arthur, he wrote 'Forgotten Voices' (of the great war), I particularly liked that his book depicts the remembrances from men & women from most ranks, & from the broader perspectives of those fighting not just under the allies, but the Axis powers too, so a good cross section of folks if you will. His second book. 'The Way Home' similarly depicts the voices of those in the hours leading up to the finalisation of the war, where & what they were doing at the time, hearing the announcement of the armistice, what happened & how they felt after, & finally, going home & how they settled back into life immediately after. As I say, there's thousands of books with individual accounts from all theatres of war, but these two gave me a real personal feel for the participants from the hardy private to CO's, nurses etc, thought I'd throw it out there if anyone wants a more intimate perspective of the time from those involved.

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Ah yeah. It was. The Germans attacked first and bombed their enemy’s cities first.

​@@XxBloggsamerican brainwashed

Still heroes

Australia had three P38s in total, used a PR aircraft.

The P 40 was a fine aircraft where used correctly.

@@MarkGoding Yes at low altitude