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An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden. | An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden. | ||
| − | == [[Category: | + | == [[:Category: Martin B-26 Marauder | Martin B-26 Marauder]] == |
| − | + | From a archive footage seen in the very begining of the movie. | |
| + | [[Image:BTF archiv1.JPG|thumb|500px|none |]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF B-26.JPG|thumb|500px|none |B-26 overflying the vessels of the D-Day. ]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] == | ||
| + | General Eisenhower unboarding from a USAAF C-47. Serial seems to be ?6600 or ?6800 but those close among Skytrain production list are for a RAF Dakota or a C-47 sent to USSR in May 1945 ... | ||
| + | [[Image:aB2Far_C47-Eisenh.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Taylorcraft Auster|Taylorcraft Auster III]] == | ||
| + | Auster III (c/n 344). | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF Auster-IIIa.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF Auster-IIIb.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF Auster-IIIc.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Supermarine Spitfire|Supermarine Spitfire H.F.IXb]] == | ||
| + | Supermarine Spitfire H.F.IXb (MH434) built in 1943. Look at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]]. | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF Spitfire.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF SpitfireIX.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF SpitfireLL.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] == | ||
| + | Eleven aircraft (all C-47s) were used for this movie. One of them was really on strengh for Market Garden. Serials are false. | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF C-47.jpg|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF C-47b.JPG|thumb|500px|none |During this panorama, ten Skytrain are visible.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF C-47dropping.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF C-47 Dakota.JPG|thumb|500px|none |With the british roundel to figure a Dakota.]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Airspeed Horsa | Airspeed AS.51 Horsa I]] == | ||
| + | Non flyable replicas. | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF Horsa.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF Horsa2.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:BTF pull glider.JPG|thumb|500px|none |Start of the towing of an Airspeed Horsa by a Dakota.]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: North American T-6|North American Harvard IIB]] == | ||
| + | Four North American AT-16-ND Harvard IIB have been used.<br> | ||
| + | Some work have been done to give them a line like the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. | ||
| + | [[Image: BTF T-6asP-47.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image:aB2Far_T-6_P-47.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | [[Image: I047915.jpg|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image: BTF T-6.JPG|thumb|500px|none | ]] | ||
| + | [[Image: BTF T-6b.JPG|thumb|500px|none |Harvard IIB (c/n. 14A-1467, s/n 43-13168).]] | ||
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{{Footnote}} | {{Footnote}} | ||
| + | == See also == | ||
| + | * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075784/ A Bridge Too Far at IMDb] | ||
| + | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Far_(film) A Bridge Too Far at Wikipedia] | ||
| + | * [https://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=75784 A Bridge Too Far at IMCDb] | ||
| − | + | [[Category: Airspeed Horsa]] | |
| − | + | [[Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] | |
| − | + | [[Category: Martin B-26 Marauder]] | |
| − | + | [[Category: North American T-6]] | |
| + | [[Category: Supermarine Spitfire]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Taylorcraft Auster]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:21, 20 March 2023
Movie (1977)
Starring:
Siem Vroom (Underground Leader)
Marlies van Alcmaer (Underground Leader's Wife)
Hans von Borsody (General Blumentritt)
Dirk Bogarde (Lieutenant General Browning)
Sean Connery (Major General Urquhart)
Ryan O'Neal (Brigadier General Gavin)
An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.
Martin B-26 Marauder
From a archive footage seen in the very begining of the movie.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
General Eisenhower unboarding from a USAAF C-47. Serial seems to be ?6600 or ?6800 but those close among Skytrain production list are for a RAF Dakota or a C-47 sent to USSR in May 1945 ...
Taylorcraft Auster III
Auster III (c/n 344).
Supermarine Spitfire H.F.IXb
Supermarine Spitfire H.F.IXb (MH434) built in 1943. Look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Eleven aircraft (all C-47s) were used for this movie. One of them was really on strengh for Market Garden. Serials are false.
Airspeed AS.51 Horsa I
Non flyable replicas.
North American Harvard IIB
Four North American AT-16-ND Harvard IIB have been used.
Some work have been done to give them a line like the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
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