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From: attcan!ron@uunet.UU.NET (Ron Joma)
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Subject: Re: Piece of Cake
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.034005.251@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 03:40:05 GMT
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From: attcan!ron@uunet.UU.NET (Ron Joma)

In article <1990Aug21.024858.1383@cbnews.att.com>, phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
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> From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
> >
> The only close-up of the Heinkels was a shot in the middle of the
> formation, looking to the right, that was repeated several times.
> It appeared that both this and the other bomber shots were either
> colorized WWII film or footage glommed from movies.

I don't know if this is my imagination or if memory is still serving me
correctly, BUT, in several episodes of Piece of Cake, I distinctly
remember seeing footage from the late 60's movie "Battle of Britain".

The specific scenes were shots of Luftwaffe planes crashing into the
Channel, as well as some of the Heinkel formation shots.

BoB was an excellent movie, having been well served with advisors, amoungst
whom was Adolf Galland (later to become Luftwaffe General of the Airforce).

PoC also did justice to history - overlooking some of the more technical
aspects of Spitfires of late vintage in place of Hurricanes.

Question however - Were the BF109's used actually replicas of the original
planes or were these the Merlin equipped Spanish airforce variants?
I seem to recall some scenes where the BF109's had the distinct Merlin
type engine cowling, but others with the more original Benz (?) engines.

Finally, in the spirit of recent discussions on the marks of spitfire
used, my readings as well as modeling experience (from years ago) recall
that the BF109 D and E models used in the BoB had a scoop type air intake
on the port side of the aircraft.  This was later removed from the
Frederik and Gustav models of the later war.  Anyone care to comment?


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