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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: expat on June 22, 2014, 08:40:30 AM
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If you can use BBC iplayer you might want to watch this :-http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01tczfx/the-great-war-interviews-4-cecil-arthur-lewis
Very interesting set of interviews of life as a pilot during World War 1.
There are also interviews from other pilots and soldiers .
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It worked for me in Canada, using both Canadian and American IP addy's with a VPN, obviously it works with a British IP as well, so most should be able to see it.
Fantastic find, appreciate the link, I really enjoyed that. It's amazing to me that this interview was only a couple years prior to the Vietnam war where F4's, F8's, and all manner of other very advanced aircraft fought vs Mig 21's, 19s, and 17's, using radar, guided missiles and the like. And here is this gentleman still quite sharp, talking about his experience over France fighting the German air force only a decade and a bit after man first experienced powered flight. The progress of technology and air combat this man saw in his life spanned from not flying at all, to mach 2 capable jet fighters with radar and ir guided missiles.
World War 1 is a fascinating subject for any military history interested person, especially the air war, and this interview gives a great first person account of flying for the RAF. His comments about the 2C made me laugh. His details about early photo recon equipment and techniques was great - just to think about how basic it was, and in this man's lifetime the SR71 was a reality, flying Mach 3 and purportedly able to read nametags at 60k feet with its cameras. Amazing.
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A search of u-tube brings these 'The Great War Interviews' to those of us in USA.
JGroth
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If you can use BBC iplayer you might want to watch this :-http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01tczfx/the-great-war-interviews-4-cecil-arthur-lewis
Very interesting set of interviews of life as a pilot during World War 1.
There are also interviews from other pilots and soldiers .
You should read Cecil Lewis' book, Sagittarius Rising. Probably the best personal account of a WW1 flyer.
ack-ack
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hummm...the utuber says 1 of 13 but having trouble finding the rest...
JGroth