Reach for the Sky Ch 4 12:30 today!

[tr7v8]

As above, still a great film

[forks]

Watching it now on +1 before I go to work. Read the book first, and the film is pretty good too!

[Eric Mc]

Pity it bears little relationship to the true Douglas Bader.

[Simpo Two]

DRB gave a talk at my school's speech day.

'You've probably heard them say that schooldays are the happiest days of your life. Well they're not.'

Cue laughter from the ranks and stony silence from the staff.



But yes, I hear he could be rather unpleasant - the Alan Sugar of fighter pilots perhaps?!

[Eric Mc]

Certainly didn't suffer fools gladly.

[Jasandjules]

Eric Mc said:

Pity it bears little relationship to the true Douglas Bader.

Can you tell us more then?

[Simpo Two]

Eric Mc said:

Certainly didn't suffer fools gladly.

The problem now is that the fools run the country. This country is NOT OPERATIONAL regarding common sense!

[Eric Mc]

Jasandjules said:

Eric Mc said:

Pity it bears little relationship to the true Douglas Bader.

Can you tell us more then?

he was quite harsh on his own men - which sometimes worked well but on other occasions was unwarranted. However. he held his greatest ire for politicians and the men from the Ministry, which always went down well with his fellow pilots.

I think the greatest stain against him is the fact that he sided with leigh-Malloery in his battle for The Big Wing during the Battle of Britain. After the BoB, Dowding was removed and replaced by Leigh-Mallory and there are suspicions that Leigh-Mallory colluded with Bader to brief against Dowding.