Kampen om tungtvannet (1948)

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Kampen om tungtvannet movie poster.

Movie (1948)
French title : La bataille de l'eau lourde

Starring:
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (Himself, Professor at Collège de France)
Jens A. Poulsson (Himself, Ensign)
Johannes Eckhoff (Knut Haugland, Ensign)
Arne Kjelstrup (Himself, Sergeant)

A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany in getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during WW2.

Amiot AAC 1 Toucan

One of the 400 built after WW2 for the French Air Force.

Caudron C.445/3 Goéland

With the AAC 1 Toucan on the left.

Acting as a british transport, the next one wears a false registration (G-AFDX).

Messerschmitt Bf 110 G

Shot probably used again in Les carabiniers.

Unidentified Aircraft

Perhaps a Supermarine Spitfire.

Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

This shot from the end of the movie.

Dornier Do 17 Z

A Dornier Do 17 Z forward gunner is firing.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Savoia Marchetti SM.79

Same archive of aircraft in other film at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Heinkel He 111 H

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Unidentified Aircraft

During a short scene, a four engine flies low over the frozen sea. Fw 200 or C-54 ?

Probably a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden.

Vickers 416 Wellington

Douglas C-47

Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley

Jump ! Commandos react when light turns green.

Navigator station.

Airspeed AS.51 Horsa I

Several are seen towed by the next two bomber types.

Handley Page Halifax

Short S.29 Stirling

Unidentified Aircraft

Probably a upper wing three engine burning. The three blade propelers and engine cowlings are probably a late aircraft of this formula (Savoia Marchetti ?).