Monthly Archives: January 2009
Advance Australia fair!
Happy Aussie day to Our Friends Down Under. To mark the day, here are three more pictures from the Australian War Memorial Collection that have rarely, if ever, been seen in print: Jack Leggo leading a VE Parade, Mick Martin’s … Continue reading
Filed under Dambuster survivors, Dams Raid crews
David Shannon’s trousers…
… are in the Australian War Memorial collection in Canberra, as are his jacket, cap and medals. You can also read an entry about Shannon in the online exhibition, Fifty Australians: a cross-section of Australians – sometimes a leader, a … Continue reading
Filed under Dambuster survivors, Dams Raid crews, David Shannon
The Dam Busters: Patrick McGoohan’s first words on screen
Patrick McGoohan may have reached international stardom as Danger Man and The Prisoner, but his first speaking role on the screen was in 1955, in The Dam Busters. He played the guard on the briefing room door, who turns Gibson’s … Continue reading
Filed under Dam Busters 1955 film, Obituaries
Les Knight’s crash site and memorial
Teunis Schuurman, a Dutch writer and designer, has a huge website, much of which is devoted to pictures of wartime memorials and crash sites. On this page (which is very large — scroll about three quarters of the way down) … Continue reading
Filed under Dams Raid crews, Dortmund Ems, Memorials
Dambusters remake: 2011 still most likely date
A New Year turns (and a happy one to all readers of this blog) but there is no word yet on how the remake of The Dam Busters is going. Screenplay writer Stephen Fry is currently in New Zealand, but … Continue reading
Filed under Dam Busters 1955 film, Dambusters remake, Peter Jackson, Stephen Fry
