Warbird Information Exchange

Greetings The Movie The Longest Day was on tonight. I never get tired of watching the Duke !
I have a few ? om the Aircraft that were used in the movie The longest Day the formation of Aircraft that flew over the invasion force were they AD-7 Skyraiders ? and the German Fighter Aircraft were they Real ME-108's or just mockups The glider planes were they mockups as well ?

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Always Keep Em Flying !

Glen

Lookie Capt Jim! Wham! Wham! ...............................Termights

Cdr 'Zip' Rousa wrote about his squadron flying their ADs for
the movie and being disappointed that 99.9% of the flying they
did ended up being cut.
He wrote a great book called 'Gold Wings Blue Sea' and was
the editor of the Naval Aviation News for many years.

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Don't touch my junk!!

The Messerchmitts were Bf-108s posing as 109s (although in the real invasion "Pips" Priller and his wingman flew Fw-190s.) It's been awhile since I've seen the film but I would assume the glider scenes were done with a combination of were full-size non-flying mock-ups, and model shots.


SN

Don't forget the 3 Spits.



Image from Mr. Peter Arnold ( Mark12 ) of MK923 in the middle of MH415 and MK297. Very Cool

Cheers Dave C