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Remembered Today:

Captain Jack and the Furious Few BBC4 22:00 tonight (7/11/18)


NigelS

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I watched it last night on iPlayer and thoroughly enjoyed it.  Narrated by David Hayman, who has also presented several other WW1 naval documentaries.

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On ‎07‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 14:03, SiegeGunner said:

I watched it last night on iPlayer and thoroughly enjoyed it.  Narrated by David Hayman, who has also presented several other WW1 naval documentaries.

Hi

 

Sadly it also repeated the usual myth (of Dennis Winter's) that 14,000 pilots died with 8,000 killed in training!  A rather impossible figure, with 'Airmen Died in the Great War 1914-1918', for example, indicating a total dead of British and Commonwealth Air Services of around 9,350, all ranks, all trades, all causes, men and women.  Around 1,600 killed while flying in training units (my figure after going through names).  Despite all the data available these days the 'false' figures still get repeated!

 

Mike

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There is also a Pen & Sword book available , ' World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer - The story and diaries of Jack McCleery RNAS RAF '

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