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1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 min. 27 sec.) ; 267501980 bytes |
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From 1939 to 1945 thousands of young airmen met terrible ends not at the hands the enemy's machine guns or because of the murderous flak of anti-aircraft fire, but in catastrophic accidents and training crashes. Incredibly, these incidents accounted for the lives of over 8000 men, almost percent of all RAF Bomber Command's fatalities during the War. But those brave men should not be a footnote in military history. Researchers have spent years investigating, uncovering, searching, probing and digging the crash sites - and there are hundreds of them. They are the WWII Air Crash Investigators and now, for the first time, they have agreed to let us join them.Bakers Creek, Australia, 14th June, 1943. For the men about to board "Miss Every Morning Fixin", the pressures of the War had been eased by a period of rest and relaxation in Queensland, but they were about to return to war operations in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. They were never to return. Shortly after take-off the aircraft plunged into the ground killing everyone aboard - apart from one survivor, who would spend the rest of his life coping with the injuries he received that day. This accident is still Australia's worse ever plane crash and yet it was hushed up by the Australian and US governments until after the war had ended, with the relatives being told that those on board had perished in a crash over the South Pacific. (From the UK) (Documentary) PG CCFollow the conversation on Twitter: #sbsdoco |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-01-21 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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United States. Air Force.
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Aircraft accident victims' families.
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Aircraft accidents -- Investigation.
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Veterans -- Transportation.
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World War (1939-1945)
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Military operations, Aerial -- American.
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Queensland.
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Streaming video
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Fowler, James, director
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Barnwell, Ross, cast
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Downey, Aileen, cast
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Fairhead, Ed, cast
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Hemming, Luke, cast
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Jones, Richard, cast
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Morgan, Robert, cast
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