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C.4K-126

## History

Previously with Spitfire Productions, from 14 May 1968 to 20 February 1969,  as **G-AWHD**, this aircraft was subsequently registered, as **N90603**, to Wilson Edwards, as part of the Edwards Collection, Big Spring, Texas. on 23 August 1973. On 6 November 2015, ownership passed to Bank of Utah Trustee, Salt Lake City, UT.

## Notes

1. ↑ Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft, which were licence built by Spanish Hispano Aviaçion in the 40’ and 50’s, using Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AWHD.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/C4K-126.html
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_surviving\_Messerschmitt\_Bf\_109s
4. ↑ Airframe Visuals entry
5. ↑ Sons of Damian
Citizen

"*I heard some evil saiyans landed near the city! They must be in the canyons behind me! Stop them from taking over Earth!*"
—The Citizen to the player when approached
The **Citizen** is a Mission NPC featured in *Dragon Blox Ultimate*.

He is one of the few Mission NPCs present in the game, and is located near the beginning of the city, in front of a semi-sphere house with 2 smaller semi-sphere rooms on each side.

## Appearance

The Citizen's attire consists of a black, sleeveless leather jacket exposing his muscle bound arms, a white tank-top underneath, a black leather belt with a golden buckle in the center, black plants, black boots with gold rings and gold-striped toes, and black, finger less gloves. With short, spiky black hair, the Citizen has facial features similar to Goku's.

The Citizen also bears a striking resemblance to the Evil Saiyans, X Fighters, X Fighter Trainer, and Top X Fighter, and X Fighter Master themselves. and like them, he is also very muscular, as briefly mentioned above.

## Quest

When approached, he will give the player a quest to defeat the rampaging Evil Saiyans, and once defeated, he will reward 3,500 all stats and 1,000 Zeni to the player. In order to spawn at the Citizen, the player will need 300,000-450,000 all stats, and you need at least 75,000 all stats (excluding defense) in order to actually accept his mission and fight the Evil Saiyans. Like the X Fighter Trainer, Top X Fighter, Turtle School Student mission giver, and Kaio Student mission giver, you cannot fight the Citizen himself.
G-AIEY

Proctuka G-AIEY at Bovngdon

## [Source]

Built by F Hills And Sons Ltd, and originally operated by the 317 Air Service Group until 30 November 1944 as **P6227**, this was one of three Proctors acquired for rebuild as Proctukas, to be used in place of real Junkers Ju-87 Stukas.  This example, with fuselage code **W8+AE**, was the only one that was actually test flown following conversion, only for the type's lack of stability in a dive resulting in the Proctukas being grounded, and replaced with radio control scale models.

## Notes

1. ↑ This airframe may be the wrecked aircraft seen in the Spike Milligan film Adolf Hitler - My Part In His Downfall
2. ↑ This was done after the original plan, to fully restore and modify the RAF Museum's Junkers Ju-87 G2, Werk Nr 494083, was abandoned on cost grounds.
3. ↑ Sadly not many of the flying models came back to the UK after their stint in Malta. Their useful purpose served, the majority were piled in a heap and set on fire to save on return transportation costs.

## Sources

1. ↑ http://www.aviationbanter.com/showthread.php?s=a7d6d324c9922cb2f717f498ee6bb4cb&p=989908#post989908
2. ↑ https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/17802-film-wreckage
3. ↑ https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-AIEY.html
4. ↑ https://www.scribd.com/document/499349984/Camouflage-and-Markings-21-British-Aircraft-in-USAAF-Service
5. ↑ http://www.daveswarbirds.com/bob/frames.htm
6. ↑ https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/17802-film-wreckage
7. ↑ http://www.daveswarbirds.com/bob/misc.htm
8. ↑ http://www.daveswarbirds.com/bob/models.htm
Kid Gohan

"*Hey, do you want to spar with me?*"
—Kid Gohan to the player when approached
**Kid Gohan** is a Boss NPC featured in *Dragon Blox Ultimate*.

He is one of the first few Boss NPCs present in the game, and can be found in the forest northwest of the X Fighter Trainer.

## Appearance

Kid Gohan takes after his father mostly in appearance, including Goku's facial features, black eyes and even his spiky hair. In the game, Kid Gohan's hairstyle resembles his hairstyle during the Namek/Frieza arc in *Dragon Ball Z*.

Based on his attire worn during much of *Dragon Ball Z*, Kid Gohan wears an outfit similar to Namekian warriors, consisting of a purple gi with a red sash and armbands, black kung-fu shoes with white shins, and a white-collar around his neck. Like his father, he is also very muscular.

## Quest

When approached, he will give the player a quest to fight him and once defeated, he will reward 1,400 all stats and 400 Zeni to the player. In order to spawn at Kid Gohan, the player will need 50,000-75,000 all stats, however, there are no stat requirements to actually fight Kid Gohan.
Derek Wood

**Derek Wood** (1930 – 2 May 2003) was the author of *Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook*. Wood was the editor of "Jane's" the publishers of a wide range of military handbooks and weekly defence newsletters until he retired in 1993. For more than 30 years, Derek was the doyen of aviation specialists in Fleet Street and enjoyed a reputation for unimpeachable integrity. He was renowned, not only for his expertise and keen intellect, but also for his steadfast refusal to compromise moral stands in a notoriously competitive field.

## Royal Observer Corps

A lifelong and keen aircraft spotter, Derek was a sparetime volunteer member of the Royal Observer Corps for nearly fifty years and wrote the history of the Corps in his 1975 book *Attack Warning Red : The Royal Observer Corps and the Defence of Britain, 1925 to 1975*, later updated in 1992 when the Corps was stood down. Derek joined the Royal Observer Corps in 1947 and served on posts near Chichester, London, and at Cuckfield (north of Brighton) after moving there in the 1960s. As a journalist and aerospace expert he did his utmost to further the Corps' standing in both military and civil areas.

In the late 50s, the aircraft reporting role was being phased out and the ROC became the field force of the UKWMO run by the Home Office. In the Sixties the Home Office was quietly planning to sever the Corps' link with the RAF, take it out of uniform, and completely integrate it within UKWMO. Derek got wind of this and, as aviation correspondent of the *Sunday Telegraph*, wrote an article warning that if such a plan was implemented it was likely that at least 80 percent of Corps would resign.

The Home Office was furious and demanded that the Commandant, Air Commodore Jeaffreson Gresswell, remove Derek from the Corps immediately. Fortunately, Gresswell refused to do so. The plan was quietly dropped and Derek went on to serve the Corps for many more years.

Besides running the Post at Cuckfield as Chief Observer, he was much in demand on the lecture circuit and gave talks to the RAF Staff College at Bracknell, the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Society of British Aerospace Companies, as well as ROC Groups and Cluster meetings, all over the country.

## Author

Derek Wood came into prominence as an author when his book *The Narrow Margin*, regarded as the definitive history of the Battle of Britain, was published. He was an adviser on the set of the eponymous film, and the book is used by military historians and lecturers to this day. Others of his books include *Project Cancelled*, an account of Britain's abandoned aircraft projects, *Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook* and, of course, *Attack Warning Red*, the official history of the Royal Observer Corps.

He started preparing to write the history of the ROC way back in 1972 and when *Attack Warning Red* was published in 1976, and its update in 1991 when the Corps stood down, he put its achievement on permanent record. In 1983, Derek started the magazine called *Jane's Defence Weekly*, and retired in 1993.

## Sources

1. ↑  *Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook*. ISBN 0-7106-0343-6.
Michael Bates

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**Michael Hammond Bates** (4 December 1920 – 11 January 1978) was a British actor born in India. He was best known for playing Chief Guard Barnes who processes (and strip-searches) Alex (Malcolm McDowell) in *A Clockwork Orange*, Cyril Blamire in *Last of the Summer Wine* (1973–75), and Rangi Ram in *It Ain't Half Hot Mum* (1974–77).

## Early life

Bates was born in Jhansi, United Provinces, India. His parents were of Cheshire families; his father, Henry Stuart "Harry" Bates (1893–1985), son of Albert Bates, of Congleton, Cheshire, was educated at Denstone School and Cambridge University before entering the Indian Civil Service in 1920. He served as Deputy Secretary of the Revenue Department and a Member of the Board of Revenue for the United Provinces of India until 1947 (in which year he was created CSI) and was later of the Colonial Office. Bates's mother, Sarah Clarke Walker (1896–1982) was daughter of William Hammond Walker, also of Congleton. Bates spent his early years in India, speaking Hindi and Urdu as his first languages before learning English, and remaining fluent in the former two languages for the rest of his life.

Having been sent home to England aged seven by his parents, Bates was educated at Uppingham School and his father's alma mater, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was commissioned in the Indian Army in March 1942. During World War II he served in the Burma Campaign as a major with the Brigade of Gurkhas and was mentioned in dispatches in 1944.
Laurence Olivier

Olivier in 1972

**Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier**, OM (/ˈlɒrəns ˈkɜːr əˈlɪvieɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trinity of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles.

His family had no theatrical connections, but Olivier's father, a clergyman, decided that his son should become an actor. After attending a drama school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's *Private Lives*, and he appeared in his first film. In 1935 he played in a celebrated production of *Romeo and Juliet* alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, building it into a highly respected company. There his most celebrated roles included Shakespeare's Richard III and Sophocles's Oedipus. In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career was in the doldrums until he joined the *avant garde* English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in *The Entertainer*, a part he later played on film. From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars. His own parts there included the title role in *Othello* (1965) and Shylock in *The Merchant of Venice* (1970).

Among Olivier's films are *Wuthering Heights* (1939), *Rebecca* (1940), and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director: *Henry V* (1944), *Hamlet* (1948), and *Richard III* (1955). His later films included *The Shoes of the Fisherman* (1968), *Sleuth* (1972), *Marathon Man* (1976), and *The Boys from Brazil* (1978). His television appearances included an adaptation of *The Moon and Sixpence* (1960), *Long Day's Journey into Night* (1973), *Love Among the Ruins* (1975), *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* (1976), *Brideshead Revisited* (1981) and *King Lear* (1983).

Olivier's honours included a knighthood (1947), a life peerage (1970) and the Order of Merit (1981). For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The National Theatre's largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. He was married three times, to the actresses Jill Esmond from 1930 to 1940, Vivien Leigh from 1940 to 1960, and Joan Plowright from 1961 until his death.
Benjamin Fisz

Fisz with one of the HA-1112 Buchon aircraft used for filming

**Szlomo Benjamin Fisz** (4 November 1922 – 17 November 1989) was a Polish film producer and writer, known for *A Town Called Bastard*, *Aces High*, *Battle of Britain*, *The Heroes of Telemark* and *Hell Drivers*.

## Biography

Before his film career, Fisz emigrated to the United Kingdom and became a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

Fisz entered the British film industry after the war. He began producing with four films directed by Cy Endfield. In the 1960s he began producing films about World War II, though efforts to make a film about Orde Wingate did not come to fruitation.

## Sources

1. ↑ IMDB Entry nm0279990
2. ↑ Wikipedia entry
C.4K-152

Side profile

## History

Operated by Ala 7 and 471 Escuadron of the EdA (Spanish Air Force) from late 1959, C.4K-152 was struck of charge in October 1965, before being registered to Spitfire Productions as **G-AWHR** between May 14 and 29 November 1968, for use in the film Battle of Britain.

The aircraft later joined the US register as **N4109G**, becoming one of eight Buchons obtained by Wilson 'Connie' Edwards, as part payment for his work in the film Battle of Britain.

C.4K-152 is historically significant, as it was the last fighter flown by Luftwaffe fighter ace Adolf Galland. Along with three others, C.4K-152 has been shipped to California for restoration to airworthiness. The aircraft was listed as being in storage as of September 2018, before returning to flight on 1 July 2019.

## Notes

1. ↑ Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft, which were licence built by Spanish Hispano Aviaçion in the 40’ and 50’s, using Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.
2. ↑ During filming, this aircraft was the personal mount of Comandante Pedro Santa Cruz, the lead Spanish pilot.

## Sources

1. ↑ http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/BoBPG4.htm
2. ↑ http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-AWHR.html
3. ↑ Aeroplane. February 2016. Page 6.
4. ↑ http://www.eurodemobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=2328
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Aeroplane Database - November 2020. Page 69.
6. ↑ http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/BoBPG3.htm
RAF Bentley Priory

RAF Bentley Priory

Stanmore, Harrow, Greater London in England

Coordinates: 51°37′35.94″N 0°20′3.24″W

Type: Non-flying administrative station

**Site information**

Owner: Ministry of Defence

Operator: Royal Air Force

Condition: Closed

Website: Bentley Priory Museum

**Site history**

Built: 1766

In use: 1936–2008

Fate: Converted to residential use. Former Officers' Mess now the Bentley Priory Museum.

**RAF Bentley Priory** was a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It was the headquarters of Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain and throughout the Second World War. During the war, two enemy bombs destroyed a wooden hut near the married quarters, a blast from a V-1 flying bomb broke a few windows, the windows in the Officers' Mess were shattered by a V-2 rocket, and a Vickers Wellington crashed outside the Sergeants' Mess.

The Royal Air Force station closed its operations on 30 May 2008, with all units relocating to new accommodation at RAF Northolt, a few miles away.

The station incorporated Bentley Priory, which was originally built in 1766. The house was significantly extended in 1788, by Sir John Soane, for John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn. It was the final home of the dowager Queen Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, before her death there in 1849. Afterwards the building was used as a hotel and girls' school before being acquired by the RAF in 1926. The site includes a Grade II\* listed Officers' Mess and Italian Gardens. These, together with the park, are designated a Registered Garden Grade II. The land south of the house is the Bentley Priory Nature Reserve, a Site of Special Scientific Interest maintained by Harrow Heritage Trust.

Since its closure, the Officers' Mess has converted into the **Bentley Priory Museum** with exhibits focusing on the house's role in the Battle of Britain. The grounds have been redeveloped as a private residential housing estate.

## RAF Bentley Priory in the film

The scenes at RAF Fighter Command were filmed at RAF Bentley Priory, the headquarters of Fighter Command. Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding's original office, with the original furniture, was used.
Christopher Plummer

Plummer at the 2014 Miami International Film Festival

**Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer** CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining recognition for his performances in film, television, and theatre. Plummer made his Broadway debut in 1954, and continued to act in leading roles on stage playing Cyrano de Bergerac in *Cyrano* (1974), Iago in *Othello*, as well as playing the titular roles in *Hamlet at Elsinore* (1964), *Macbeth*, *King Lear*, and *Barrymore*. Plummer also performed in stage productions *J.B.*, *No Man's Land*, and *Inherit the Wind*.

Plummer was born in Toronto and grew up in Senneville, Quebec. After appearing on stage, he made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's *Stage Struck* (1958), and won great acclaim for his performance as Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical film *The Sound of Music* (1965) alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer portrayed numerous major historical figures, including Commodus in *The Fall of the Roman Empire* (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in *Waterloo* (1970), Rudyard Kipling in *The Man Who Would Be King* (1975), Mike Wallace in *The Insider* (1999), Leo Tolstoy in *The Last Station* (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in *The Exception* (2016), and J. Paul Getty in *All the Money in the World* (2017). Plummer also appeared in Spike Lee's *Malcolm X* (1992), Ron Howard's *A Beautiful Mind* (2001), Terrence Malick's *The New World* (2005), David Fincher's *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* (2011), Rian Johnson's *Knives Out* (2019), and Todd Robinson's *The Last Full Measure* (2019).

Plummer received various awards for his work, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for *Beginners* (2010), becoming the oldest person to win an acting award, and he received a nomination at the age of 88 for *All the Money in the World*, making him the oldest person to be nominated in an acting category.

## Notes

1. ↑ Plummer asked for his character's RAF uniform to display the "Canada" shoulder flashes.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher\_Plummer
Chilham

**Chilham** is a mostly agricultural village and parish in the English county of Kent with a clustered settlement, Chilham village centre, in the northeast, and a smaller linear settlement, Shottenden. Well-preserved roads and mostly residential listed buildings in its centre have led to its use as a location in television and film.

## Settlements

The village of Chilham is in the valley of the Great Stour River and beside the A28 road 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Canterbury. It is centred on a market square, where a traditional annual May Day is celebrated. At each end of the square are its major buildings: Chilham Castle and the 15th-century parish church, dedicated to St Mary. It has been claimed that St Thomas Becket was buried in the churchyard, despite his ornate tomb in Canterbury Cathedral, destroyed at the Reformation.

The Pilgrims Way passes through Chilham on the way to Canterbury.

The village has a number of period houses such as the former vicarage, which dates from 1742. The castle was owned by the Viscounts Massereene and Ferrard until its sale in 1997. From 2013 it was owned by Stuart Wheeler, founder of the spread-betting firm IG Index, until his death in July 2020.

The railway station is in a part of the village sometimes called **Bagham** on the line from Ashford to Canterbury.

There are two other named localities or neighbourhoods in the civil parish: Shottenden and a much smaller neighbourhood, Old Wives Lees.

## Chilham's connection to the film

The village of Chilham in Kent became the base of operations for the radio controllers in the film.
LA198

LA198 hanging in the main hall of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

## History

Originally ordered as part of a batch of 300 F21’s to be built at South Marston under Contract No. Air/1951/CB.23(c) in 1942, the contract was amended and LA198 did eventually appear from South Marston as part of the batch LA188 – LA332 with a constructors number in the range SMAF/4333 – 4453. No.33 MU took delivery at Lyneham on 2nd October 1944 and here it remained until allocated to No.1 squadron at Manston on 3rd May 1945, with code **JX-C**. After this very brief spell of wartime service its next move was to N.9 MU Cosford on 4th October 1946, where it was stored until issued to No.602 (City of Glasgow) squadron RAuxAF on 12th May the following year. It remained with this unit for the next four years coded **RAI-G**.

A Cat.A flying accident was sustained on 25th October 1947 and it was not until 11th May 1948 that repairs had been completed by No.63 MU Carluke. On 22nd July 1949 Cat. B damage was inflicted and on 9th August the aircraft was dispatched to Vickers at South Marston, who completed their work on 21st July the following year, No.33 MU collecting it on 27th July and placing it in store for the next fourteen months. Its next unit was No.3 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit, based at Exeter, to which it was allocated on 19th September 1951, and with which it was used for target practice duties until 19th November 1953, when it was dispatched to Vickers with a view to possible resale. This never came about and on 19th February 1954 LA198 was presented to No.187 squadron ATC at Worcester and allocated the serial **7118M**.

The Spitfire was well looked after by the unit and in 1967 it joined the set of The Battle of Britain, being transferred to RAF Locking for renovation and gate guardian duties in 1970. In 1973 its Griffon 61 engine was removed and replaced with an incomplete unit in an effort to maintain the PR19’s of the BBMF in flying condition. LA198 was displayed in striking pose, restored in its No.1 squadron codes of 1945 until removed on 25th March 1986 and transferred to RAF Leuchars, Fife as a replacement for TB252 which had been reallocated to RAF Bentley Priory. LA198 underwent an extensive overhaul at Leuchars from which it emerged restored in the markings of No.602 (City of Glasgow) squadron as **RAI-G** in June 1986. On 12th April 1989 the aircraft was moved from R.A.F. Leuchars to R.A.F. St. Athan for storage. Then in 1996 moved to the RAF Museum store at Cardington. 1997 saw the aircraft gifted to the City of Glasgow and on the 4th March 1998 it was delivered to the Museum of Flight, East Fortune for restoration. In July 2003 the aircraft arrived and was assembled at the Museum of Transport, Glasgow.

## Use of **LA198** in the film

Static example with serials **N3316** and **N3317**, and fuselage codes **AI-G** and **DO-C**

## Sources

1. ↑ http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/LA198.htm
2. ↑ http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/BoBPG3.htm
Harold Balfour

*This entry concentrates on the character during the course of the film. For more details about the real person, please visit the wikipedia page.*

## Career

### Rank

Under-Secretary of State for Air

Balfour is seen in an early scene, discussing with Dowding the latter's reluctance to send any more British fighters to assist with the war effort in France.
David Victor Kelly

*This entry concentrates on the character in the film. For more details about the real person, please visit the wikipedia page.*

Sir David is briefly seen at the start of the film when, during a meeting in Sir David's office in neutral Switzerland, the German ambassador, Baron von Richter officially proposes new peace terms to his British counterpart, stating that continuing to fight the "masters" of Europe is hopeless. Kelly's brave retort, "Don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall ... and even then we won't listen", is followed by a private comment to his wife that von Richter is probably correct.
Junkers Ju 87

Ju 87G-2 *494083* displayed at RAF Chivenor in 1970

## [Source]

The **Junkers Ju 87** or **Stuka** (from *Sturzkampfflugzeug*, "dive bomber") was a German dive-bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 and served in Axis forces in World War II (1939-1945).

The aircraft is easily recognisable by its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage. Upon the leading edges of its faired main gear legs were mounted the *Jericho-Trompeten* (Jericho trumpets [de]) - wailing sirens, which became a propaganda symbol of German air power and of the so-called *Blitzkrieg* victories of 1939–1942 - as well as providing Stuka pilots with audible feedback as to speed. The Stuka's design included several innovations, including automatic pull-up dive brakes under both wings to ensure that the aircraft recovered from its attack dive even if the pilot blacked out from the high g-forces.

The Ju 87 operated with considerable success in close air support and anti-shipping roles at the outbreak of World War II. It led air assaults in the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Stukas proved critical to the rapid conquest of Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940. Though sturdy, accurate, and very effective against ground targets, the Stuka was, like many other dive bombers of the period, vulnerable to fighter aircraft. During the Battle of Britain of 1940-1941, its lack of manoeuvrability, speed and defensive armament meant that it required a heavy fighter escort to operate effectively.

After the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe deployed Stuka units in the Balkans Campaign, the African and the Mediterranean theatres and in the early stages of the Eastern Front war, where it was used for general ground support, as an effective specialised anti-tank aircraft and in an anti-shipping role. Once the Luftwaffe lost air superiority, the Stuka became an easy target for enemy fighter-aircraft. It was produced until 1944 for lack of a better replacement. By 1945 ground-attack versions of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 had largely replaced the Ju 87, but it remained in service until the end of the war in 1945.

Germany built an estimated 6,000 Ju 87s of all versions between 1936 and August 1944.

## Use in The Film

Ju 87 G-2, Werk Nr. *494083* was repainted and modified to resemble a 1940 variant of the Ju 87. The engine was found to be in excellent condition and there was little difficulty in starting it, but returning the aircraft to airworthiness was considered too costly for the filmmakers, and ultimately, models were used in the film to represent Stukas, as the subsequent plan to use modified Percival Proctors was abandoned due to stability issues. In 1998, the film modifications were removed, and the aircraft returned to the original G-2 configuration
English Channel

Satellite image of the English Channel

Map of the English Channel

The **English Channel**, also called simply **the Channel** (French: *la Manche*), is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France and links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busiest shipping area in the world.

It is about 350 miles (560 kilometres) long and varies in width from 150 miles (240 kilometres) at its widest to 21 miles (34 kilometres) in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some 29,000 square miles (75,000 square kilometres).

The Channel was a key factor in Britain becoming a naval superpower and has been utilised by Britain as a natural defence mechanism by which many would-be invasions, such as the Napoleonic Wars and those of Adolf Hitler in World War II, were halted.
Derek Dempster

### Role in the film

Co-author (with Derek Wood) of The Narrow Margin, used as a basis of the script.

**Derek David Dempster** (12 November 1924–25 January 2012) was the co-author, with Derek Wood, of The Narrow Margin, used as a basis of the script.

Born in Tangier, Dempster was educated, initially, at the French ***Lycee Regnault*** in Tangier, and completed his schooling in England in 1942, when he then volunteered for the RAF and was sent to Southern Rhodesia, for pilot training.

On his commission, after receiving his ‘wings’, he qualified as a flying instructor. In the mid 1950s, after serving as intelligence officer of 604 RAuAF Squadron, he left the RAF and took up a position as air correspondent for the *Daily Express* newspaper. He was then able to sift through reports of UFOs and decide whether further investigations should be carried out.

He was asked to review a copy of *Flying Saucers have Landed* by George Adamski and Desmond Leslie, which increased his curiosity into the UFO subject. Unfortunately, owing to a disagreement with theeditor of the newspaper over the grounding of the world’s first passenger jet, the Comet, he left the *Daily Express* and started his new job as first editor of FSR at Werner Laurie Publishers, in Doughty Street, London. He was assisted by the following people: Waveney Girvan (publisher), Lewis Barton(editor of *This Week*, illustrated magazine), The Honorable Brinsley Le Poer Trench (an accountantat the South African Embassy), Dennis Montgomery (librarian) and Gordon Creighton (diplomat).

## Sources

1. ↑ http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?102069
2. ↑ http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html

Production Crew‏‎
Adolf Galland

Galland in 1959

**Adolf Josef Ferdinand Galland** (19 March 1912 – 9 February 1996) was a German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe. He flew 705 combat missions, and fought on the Western Front and in the Defence of the Reich. On four occasions, he survived being shot down, and he was credited with 104 aerial victories, all of them against the Western Allies.

After the war, Galland was employed by Argentina's Government and acted as a consultant to the Argentine Air Force. Later, he returned to Germany and managed his own business. Galland also became friends with many former enemies, such as RAF aces Robert Stanford Tuck and Douglas Bader. Adolf Galland died on 9 February 1996.

## Adolf Galland's connection to the film

Galland served as technical adviser for the film, in which the character Major Falke is based on Galland.  Galland was upset about the director's decision not to use the real names. While making the film, Galland was joined by his friend Robert Stanford Tuck. Galland also threatened to withdraw at a planned sequence involving him giving a Nazi salute to Göring. Tuck also wrote into the producers, urging them to reconsider; at one point Galland brought his lawyer to Pinewood Studios.

During the production's visit to Tablada, for filming of some aerial sequances, Galland gave an impromptu air display using Hispano Aviaçion HA-1112‏‎ C.4K-152.

## Sources

1. ↑ Baker, David (1996). *Adolf Galland: The Authorised Biography*. London: Windrow & Green. ISBN 978-1-85915-017-7. .
2. ↑ Mosley, Leonard (1969). *Battle of Britain: The Story of a Film*. London: Pan. ISBN 0-330-02357-8.  Page 99
3. ↑ David Baker. Page 304
4. ↑ Leonard Mosley Pages 117–118, 121
Sarah Lawson

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**Sarah Elizabeth Lawson** (born 6 August 1928) is a former English actress best known for her film and television roles.

## Early life

Lawson is the youngest of three children born to Edith (née Monteith) and Noel John Charles Lawson (1887–1964), a naval officer of Irish heritage.

She trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, then worked in Perth, Ipswich, Felixstowe and London's West End.

## Film

Lawson's films have included *The Browning Version* (1951), *The World Ten Times Over* and *The Devil Rides Out*. Her radio work included *The Hostage*, *Inspector West* and *Kind Sir*.

Among her most memorable film appearances was as Marie Eaton in Hammer's *The Devil Rides Out* (1968), in which her husband Patrick Allen provided the dubbing for Australian actor Leon Greene. She and Allen also starred together in the science fiction thriller *Night of the Big Heat* (1967). Both films were directed by Terence Fisher.

## Television

Lawson's work on television included *Time and the Conways*, *An Ideal Husband*, *Rupert of Hentzau*, *Corridors of Power*, *The White Guard*, *The Odd Man*, *The Trollenberg Terror*, *Bergerac*, and *Zero One*. She made guest appearances in such series as *The Avengers*, *The Saint*, *Gideon's Way*, *The Professionals*, The Persuaders! and *Danger Man*.

Her most significant TV work was in the Granada TV series *The Odd Man*, starring Moultrie Kelsall and Edwin Richfield, and written by Scottish TV writer Edward Boyd. She also appeared as Soviet spy Flo Mayhew in two episodes of the series *Callan*, starring Edward Woodward.

Lawson played the prison governor in the final season of *Within These Walls*, in 1978, the third actress after Googie Withers and Katharine Blake, to play the role.

## Selected filmography

* *The Browning Version* (1951) - Betty Carstairs
* *The Night Won't Talk* (1952) - Sue / Susan
* *Street Corner* (1953) - WDC Joyce
* *Three Steps in the Dark* (1953) - Dorothy
* *Meet Mr. Malcolm* (1954) - Louie Knowles
* *You Know What Sailors Are* (1954) - Betty
* *The Blue Peter* (1955) - Gwyneth Thomas
* *It's Never Too Late* (1956) - Anne Hammond
* *Three Crooked Men* (1958) - May Wescott
* *Links of Justice* (1958) - Clare Mills
* *The Solitary Child* (1958) - Ann
* *Night Without Pity* (1962) - Diana Martin
* *On the Run* (1963) - Helen Carr
* *The World Ten Times Over* (1963) - Elizabeth
* *Night of the Big Heat* (1967) - Frankie Callum
* *The Devil Rides Out* (1968) - Marie Eaton
* *Battle of Britain* (1969) - Skipper's wife
* *The Stud* (1978) - Anne Khaled

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.howold.co/person/sarah-lawson-actress
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah\_Lawson\_(actress)
Michael Redgrave

Portrait taken by Allan Warren in 1978

**Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave** CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in *Mourning Becomes Electra* (1947), as well as two BAFTA nominations for Best British Actor for his performances in *The Night My Number Came Up* (1955) and *Time Without Pity* (1957).

At the 4th Cannes Film Festival, he won Best Actor for his performance in *The Browning Version* (1951).
C.4K-31

Hispano HA-1112-Ms as Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109s

## History

Constructed as a HA-1112-M1L by Hispano at Spain, and taken on Strength/Charge with the Ejercito de Aire with s/n C.4K-31.

From 14 May 1968 to 20 February 1969, it was registered to Spitfire Productions Ltd as **G-AWHE**. Acquired by Wilson Connie Edwards Ranch, Edwards Lucian Wells Ranch Airport, Big Spring, TX, it passed on 6 September 1991 to American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, Midland, TX as **N109ME**, joining the inventory of Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.

On 9 October 1993, eLaReF photographed the aircraft At the Confederate Air Force Air Show at Midland, Texas. On 25 May 2004 a new Certificate of airworthiness was issued. On 10 June 2008 civil registration N109ME was cancelled, and the aircraft was exported to United Kingdom.

The aircraft was registered with Magnificent Obsessions Ltd as **G-AWHE** from 12 June 2008 to 27 May 2011, when a crtificate of airworthiness for G-AWHE was issued to Spitfire Ltd, Saint. Helier, Jersey. Mov ed to Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England, C.4K-31 was photographecd there by Robert Nichols on 13 July 2013, during RNAS Yeovilton Air Day.

## Notes

1. ↑ Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft, which were licenced built by Spanish Hispano Aviaçion in the 40’ and 50’s, using Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.
2. ↑ The Airport Data entries incorrectly list the C/N as 64
3. ↑ According to Sons of Damian, the former code was only worn by G-AWHP

## Sources

1. ↑ Airport Data
2. ↑ Aerial Visuals entry
3. ↑ Sons of Damian
Dietrich Frauboes

**Dietrich Frauboes** was born on December 23, 1918 in Leipzig, Germany. He was an actor, known for Battle of Britain (1969), The Tin Drum (1979) and Tatort (1970).

In 1972, he was the dubbing voice of Thorley Walters in the German post-synchronized version of Robert Young's "Vampire Circus" (Circus der Vampire).

He died in 1979.
Percival Proctor

Percival Proctor mofified to resemble a Ju 87.

## Details

The **Percival Proctor** was a British radio trainer and communications aircraft of the Second World War. The Proctor was a single-engined, low-wing monoplane with seating for three or four, depending on the model.

Three complete Percival Proctors were purchased along with the (so far unidentified) fuselage of another, for conversion to act as stand-ins for the Ju 87 Stuka.

> I bought three Proctors and were able to mock up a sort of one third scale Stuka. I was able to change the tail, degut the centre section and make a completely new centre section which had the correct gull-wing configuration. The outer wing panels were then bolted back on and the cockpit canopy was changed for the long glass house type it is well known for. Sadly, I was unable to get a three bladed propeller and that is probably the main reason why my phoney Stuka was not used in the finished film.
>
> Hamish Mahaddie

After test flights revealed instability the modified aircraft, nicknamed "Proctuka," were ultimately abandoned and never appeared in the film.

## Notes

1. ↑ Four-seat radio trainer with enlarged fuselage.
2. ↑ Ultimately abandoned in favour of large radio controlled models
3. ↑ G-AIAE, P6227 (G-AIEY) and LZ589 (G-ALOK)
RAF Duxford

## Duxford Aerodrome

Royal Air Force Duxford

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Duxford - 9 July 1946

## [Source]

A former RAF/USAAF airfield, Duxford was used as one of the locations for the shooting of the film during 1968, seven years after it ceased operating as a military airfield. On 21 June and 22 June, one of the original World War I hangars was blown up in stages for the filming (without the concurrence of the Ministry of Defence) and the airfield was spectacularly filmed from the air in a realistic bombing sequence. Ironically this was the nearest Duxford came to being destroyed as no significant wartime German raids were carried out on the aerodrome. The French château, seen at the beginning of the film, was constructed on the south-west corner of the airfield.

## Sources

1. ↑ NATS - AIS - Home. Retrieved on February 12, 2016.
Battle in the Air

Originaly the penultimate part of Walton's score, **Battle in the Air** was the only piece to be retained for the film, following the decision to acquire a new score from Ron Goodwin, as a compromise when Laurence Olivier threatened to remove his name from the credits unless Walton's music was reinstated.
G-AIAE

## [Source]

This aircraft was photographed at RNAS Lee on Solent on 30 August 1957, and at Biggin Hill in 1965.

It was one of the three complete Percival Proctor aircraft, along with G-AIEY and G-ALOK, acquired for conversion to 'Proctuka' configuration for the film.

## Notes

1. ↑ It is not known if this example actually underwent conversion, before the decision to use radio control scale models was made.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-AIAE
2. ↑ https://www.airphotographicinternational.com/products/g-aiae-percival-proctor-5biggin-hill-1965
C.4K-107

On the ground during filming of 'A Perfect Hero'

## History

Built by La Hispano-Aviacion SA as Serial No. 151 in 1947, the aircraft was assigned to the Fuerza Aérea Española (Spanish Air Force).

After service with the Spanish Air Force, this aircraft was one of the six Buchons restored to taxying status at Tablada Airfield. After the Spanish location filming was completed, all six taxying aircraft were purchased by the Victory Air Museum at Mundelin, Illinois, USA. C.4K-107 was later added to the UK civil register as **G-BOML**, after US registration **N170BG** was cancelled on 7 March 1988.

Acquired by Edward N. Grace on 15 April 1988 and, the aircraft was passed on 21 February 1989 to Ray Hanna, who retained ownership until 11 May 1993, when the aircraft was transfered to Classic Aviation Ltd. By 31 December 1998, **G-BOML** had been flown for a total of 312 hours.

On 29 March 2000, G-BOML's registration was permanently cancelled by the Civil Aviation Authority. The Permit to Fly Certificate Expired on 7 July 2000.

 File:Buchon 151 gboml.jpg

## Notes

1. ↑ Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft, which were licence built by Spanish Hispano Aviaçion in the 40’ and 50’s, using Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.
2. ↑ Colour scheme unknown

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=BOML
2. ↑ http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-BOML.html
3. ↑ http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/BoBPG3.htm
4. ↑ http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/C4K-107.html
5. ↑ http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N170BG.html#aircraft384626
6. ↑ http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=BOML
7. ↑ http://www.godihirschi.ch/Cats/crash/Crash.htm
Ron Goodwin

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**Ronald Alfred Goodwin** (17 February 1925 – 8 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included *Where Eagles Dare*, *Battle of Britain*, *633 Squadron* the Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films, and *Frenzy*.

Born in Plymouth, Devon, England, Goodwin learned to play the piano and trumpet from the age of five which allowed him to join the school band. When he was nine, the family moved to Harrow, London, where he attended Willesden County School and Pinner County Grammar School, in Middlesex. From there he went on to study the trumpet in London at the Guildhall School of Music.

Whilst working as a copyist, he formed his own orchestra in his spare time and began arranging and conducting recordings for over fifty artists, which resulted in more than 100 chart successes. He wrote his first feature film score for *Whirlpool*, with screenplay by Lawrence P. Bachmann. After Bachmann became executive producer at MGM-British Studios in 1959, Goodwin composed and conducted the music for most of its productions, as well as working for other film studios.

In the 1980s Goodwin began concentrating on live orchestral performances and appeared as guest conductor with many symphony orchestras at home and abroad including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

## Ron Goodwin's connection to the film

Goodwin was commissioned to produce a replacement score, after most of the original music from William Walton had been rejected. The only part of Walton's score used in the film was Battle in the Air, which was retained at the insistance of S. Benjamin Fisz and Laurence Olivier.
David Griffin

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**David Griffin** (born 19 July 1943) is an English actor best known for both his roles as Squadron Leader Clive Dempster DFC in *Hi-de-Hi!* between 1984 and 1988 and Emmet Hawksworth in *Keeping Up Appearances* between 1991 and 1995.

## Career

His first screen role was in 1960 in the film *A French Mistress,* and roles like Ricketts in *The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's* in 1961, David Ashton in *Outbreak of Murder* in 1962 and Mark Dennison in *Quick Before They Catch Us* in 1966 followed soon after and became both popular and familiar with viewers. Griffin would appear in the smash hit film *Battle of Britain* in 1969 as Sergeant Pilot Chris and in popular television series including *Dixon of Dock Green* in 1968 and then again in 1974, *Z-Cars* in 1970.

Other television appearances include a guest role in an episode of *Doctor Who* ("The Sea Devils"), *'Allo 'Allo!*, *Dixon of Dock Green*, *Emmerdale Farm* and two episodes of *Ripping Yarns*. After finishing *Keeping Up Appearances* in 1995, he toured worldwide, with Su Pollard, in the stage show *The Good Sex Guide*. He has also starred in several pantomimes such as *Jack and the Beanstalk* amongst others. In 2004, Griffin appeared on the *Keeping Up Appearances* episode of "Comedy Connections", discussing his role of Emmet in *Keeping Up Appearances*.
C.4K-127

C.4K-127 in RAF paintscheme

## History

Following it's military service, C.4K-127 was registered to Spitfire Productions as **G-AWHO**.

Later part of Wilson Edwards’ hoard of Buchons, this plane was donated by him to the Experimental Aircraft Association in 1981. The EAA has maintained it since then as a static display, though registered **N109BF**.

## Use of C.4K-127 IN the film

Flown in RAF colour scheme, to supplement available Hurricanes, with code **MI-S**

## Notes

1. ↑ Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft, which were licence built by Spanish Hispano Aviaçion in the 40’ and 50’s, using Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

## Sources

1. ↑ http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/BoBPG3.htm
2. ↑ http://aircraft-in-focus.com/hispano-ha-1112/
B2-137

B2-137 aka G-AWHB at the Former Historic Aircraft Museum.Southend in the Early 1970's.

## Overview

### Also seen in

***Patton***
***Piece of Cake***

## History

### Spanish Service

Built in 1951, this aircraft was taken on charge with the Ejercito de Aire. following it's withdrawal from service, it was registered to Spitfire Productions Ltd from 15 May 1968 to 20 November 1968, on the UK civil register as **G-AWHB**,

### Subsequent history

From May 1972 to 1983, the aircraft was owned by the Historic Aircraft Museum, Southend, with fuslage codes 6J+PR. Passing to Paul Raymond, the aircraft was later owned from 16 October 1989 to 30 June 1997 by Aces High Ltd. On 27 April 2001, the civil registration - G-AWHB - was cancelled. During 2014, the aircraft was noted - dismantled - at Duxford.

## Use of **B2-137** in the film

Flown with fuselage codes ***6J-PR***, ***U6-DL***, ***VI-BN*** and ***A5-ER***.

## Notes

1. ↑ Heinkel He-111 built under licence by CASA of Spain, and powered by Merlin engines.
2. ↑ Used to represent the remains of the He-111 shot down by Hornet Squadron

## Sources

1. ↑ Robert Roggeman via http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000154288.html
2. ↑ Casa 2-111 G-AWHB info on Key Aero
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Airport Data entry for G-AWHB
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Aerial Visuals entry for G-AWHB
5. ↑ Sons of Damian
C.4K-100

## History

Registered to Spitfire Productions as **G-AWHJ**. It was one of the Buchons repainted in RAF markings for the Polish Hurricane formation scene, and retained the markings until after a display at Bovingdon on Oct 16th 1968.

Listed as owned by Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Michigan, United States

## Notes

1. ↑ Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft, which were licence built by Spanish Hispano Aviaçion in the 40’ and 50’s, using Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

## Sources

1. ↑ Key Aero forum - Buchon in RAF colours for Battle of Britain film
2. ↑ https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/C4K-100.html