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Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities. | Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities. | ||
| − | == [[:Category: Handley Page Halifax|Handley Page Halifax]] == | + | == [[:Category: Atelier aérostatique de Chalais-Meudon - Caquot dirigible|Caquot Dirigible Derivative]] == |
| + | Used as base for the first parajump. | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_00540.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley|Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley]] == | ||
| + | Once the first jump done from a captive basis comes the first real jump from an aircraft. | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_00555.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category:Short Stirling|Short S.29 Stirling]] == | ||
| + | In the background. | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_01144.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_01146.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Handley Page Halifax|Handley Page Halifax Mk V]] == | ||
| + | On a line up facing the Stirlings, a row of Halifaxes. | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_01143.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Note the Dowty undercarriage.]] | ||
[[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h01m54s306.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h01m54s306.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| − | + | Takeoff showing the lack of dorsal turret, a common fact on special operation Halifaxes. | |
[[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h04m12s701.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h04m12s701.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h09m25s695.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h09m25s695.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Handley Page Halifax|Handley Page Halifax GR Mk V Series 1A]] == | ||
| + | One of the few airframes fitted with a four bladed Rotol propeller and Merlin engines. | ||
| + | [[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h02m07s365.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Haggis / Big Chief with an impressive score board. | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_03337.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_03343.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Without insurance Felix and Cat are really boarding the same aircraft, we see the squadron code NF worn by No. 138 Squadron RAF between August 1941 and March 1945. | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_01455.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
== [[:Category: Westland Lysander|Westland Lysander]] == | == [[:Category: Westland Lysander|Westland Lysander]] == | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_04842_Lysander.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h11m11s330.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h11m11s330.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| − | == [[:Category: Lockheed Hudson|Lockheed Hudson]] == | + | == [[:Category: Lockheed Hudson|Lockheed Hudson III]] == |
[[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h14m54s447.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2018-04-16-19h14m54s447.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Closeup on the Wright R-1820 Cyclone engine. | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_10423.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_10523.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Squadron code MA of No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron | ||
| + | [[Image:NowItCanBeTold_10820_A.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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* [http://www.imcdb.org/movie_177204-Now-It-Can-Be-Told.html Now It Can Be Told at IMCDb] | * [http://www.imcdb.org/movie_177204-Now-It-Can-Be-Told.html Now It Can Be Told at IMCDb] | ||
| + | [[Category: Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Atelier aérostatique de Chalais-Meudon - Caquot dirigible]] | ||
[[Category: Handley Page Halifax]] | [[Category: Handley Page Halifax]] | ||
[[Category: Lockheed Hudson]] | [[Category: Lockheed Hudson]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Short Stirling]] | ||
[[Category: Westland Lysander]] | [[Category: Westland Lysander]] | ||
Revision as of 00:53, 25 August 2021
Short Movie (1947)
Starring:
Captain Harry Rée (Captain Brown / "Felix")
Jacqueline Nearne (Miss Williams / "Cat")
Teddy Baird (Henri Pickard)
Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
Caquot Dirigible Derivative
Used as base for the first parajump.
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley
Once the first jump done from a captive basis comes the first real jump from an aircraft.
Short S.29 Stirling
In the background.
Handley Page Halifax Mk V
On a line up facing the Stirlings, a row of Halifaxes.
Takeoff showing the lack of dorsal turret, a common fact on special operation Halifaxes.
Handley Page Halifax GR Mk V Series 1A
One of the few airframes fitted with a four bladed Rotol propeller and Merlin engines.
Haggis / Big Chief with an impressive score board.
Without insurance Felix and Cat are really boarding the same aircraft, we see the squadron code NF worn by No. 138 Squadron RAF between August 1941 and March 1945.
Westland Lysander
Lockheed Hudson III
Closeup on the Wright R-1820 Cyclone engine.
Squadron code MA of No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron
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