tion, War in the Air. The first disc was in last Saturday's paper and the second is in the paper today. The Remaining four discs will be given away daily this week. It is also nice to hear that for every newspaper sold on Saturday Nov 7th they will be donating 10p to the British 
Legion Poppy fundThe series is in 15 parts and the entire series is split across these six discs.
This from the Press release:
Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content.
This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower.
Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations.
This series will make your hair stand up on end!
2 comments:
Now I'm niggled - didn't go near a newsagents over the weekend.
Not a lot of people know this - but.. 'War In The Air' the BBC series was aired at 7:30pm on a Monday night straight after the Newsreel. This is back about 1952.
I watched every episode. But the episode that featured the bombing of Dresden carried a warning that the episode was not suitable for children and the programme was delayed to allow parents to pack their kids off to bed.
As we lived in a small flat my bed was behind the settee. So I was in bed and the sound turned down. Did that deter me? No, because by twisting around and hanging almost upside down I could see the TV.
I never missed an episode.
Ray - I've been picking the discs up daily but I think I've got the tokens too if you wish to send for the dics.
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