Warbird Information Exchange

Greetings I was watching some War Classics this past weekend and in the Movie The Greatest Raid I was wondering if anybody could I.D. the Navy Bomber Who owns it ? Was that a Poon or Ventura and what and who were the single engine planes that were shown in the landing seen ? As Always Thanks in advance for everybody responce always learning something new

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Glen

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It was a Hudson from Australia I beleive.
Jerry

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What a coincidence. I was skimming the P-61 entry on Wikipedia just yesterday and read the following...

"A P-61 was supposed to be featured in the historically accurate 2005 John Dahl film, The Great Raid, where the P-61 served as a distraction as United States Army Rangers crawled across a field in daylight during a key moment of the Raid at Cabanatuan. However in the actual movie, it was played by a Lockheed Hudson, "VH-KOY."

A quick Google search revealed a photo link to the plane in question...

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=471879

I would have to look at the film again to ID the fighters -- but, for such a brief scene I suspect that they may have used Computer Generated models.

Classic Wings Volume 9 No5 2002 Issue 38
"Aircraft of the Great Raid"

"The Hudson was fully repainted in a USAAF scheme comprising light grey undersides and olive drab upper surfaces. With the American "Star and Bar" insignia applied as a finnishing touch, the Hudson was intended to masquerade as a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura"

Note "intended". The camp was actually buzzed by a P-61 Black Widow.


Rego given as:

VH-KOY
Lockheed Hudson

Search reveals

http://www.warbirdz.net/results.php?rego=VH-KOY

Based at Temora.

www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austcl/VH-KOY.html

In 2002 it took place in the filming of the motion picture "The Great Raid" and was re-painted as a USN machine in drab olive and grey. It is now back in SEAC insignia and is currently owned by the Temora Aviation Museum in New South Wales

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