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Title: Who shotdown Bader? Ch4 7pm
Post by: thrila on August 28, 2006, 11:02:22 AM

Hey all ukers thought i would give you a heads up for tonight.  There is a documentry about  what happened to Douglas Bader  on the August 9 1941.  I've read an article by the same historian Andy Saunders a couple of years ago.  It's very interesting and comes to a conclusion different to the collision that Bader thought it was.

Title: Who shotdown Bader? Ch4 7pm
Post by: SteffK on August 28, 2006, 11:20:46 AM

Will be watching that one

Title: Who shotdown Bader? Ch4 7pm
Post by: Trikky on August 28, 2006, 01:21:00 PM

Cheers, would have missed this without the post. Quote so far - 'Not many artificial legs would have dropped from the sky in northern France'.

Title: Who shotdown Bader? Ch4 7pm
Post by: Frodo on August 28, 2006, 02:46:48 PM

For us not in the U.K., what conclusion did it come to?

Thanks

Frodo

Title: Who shotdown Bader? Ch4 7pm
Post by: thrila on August 28, 2006, 03:03:05 PM

In the end it is believed that Bader was shotdown by 'Buck' Casson in a friendly fire incident.  Casson was a member of 616 squadron, the same as Bader.

The article I first read about the incident is from "After the battle" Issue 125.

Title: Who shotdown Bader? Ch4 7pm
Post by: Frodo on August 28, 2006, 03:28:43 PM

Thanks Thrila!

Frodo