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The only thing I can come up with with Hardy not leading the target is they figured it'd confuse the audience if he fired with the crosshairs out in front.
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duckmaster posted:You don't lead a target when the aircraft is fitted with a gyro gunsight, a Which didn't exist at this point in the war, so he'd be leading his target, which would have confused the audience. Unkempt posted:He's going to spend the next five years having fun hijinks with Colonel Klink instead of getting his face burned off in the Battle of Britain so it's not all bad. Or he could maybe do like Bob Hoover did: Escape from a POW camp, steal a loving Fw-190, and fly to safety. Bob Hoover could have shot down that Ju-88 with a dead stick, too.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:34
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Donnerberg posted:Was George a real person, or maybe from a work of fiction? That trio was pretty clearly based on Charles Lightoller, who was previously the second officer on the Titanic and commanded a destroyer during WWI. The RN requisitioned his motor yacht for the evacuation, but he decided that if anyone was going to sail it to France it would be him, and left port with his son and a local boy scout on board. So George is sort of based on that boy scout, but the boy scout was actually 18, and none of the other stuff like picking up a soldier from a sunken ship and subsequent events actually happened. They did rescue the crew of another stricken vessel and then picked up over 100 troops and went home.
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Jul 26, 2017 14:27
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Arcsquad12 posted:It's a fifty mile trip. If anything the most inaccurate thing in the movie is how little fuel Tom hardy had. He could have flown over Dunkirk and back easily on a full tank without going into his reserve. I like to think when he got hit he did actually lose most of his fuel. His plane was a Mark Ia . It had an 85-gallon fuel tank, which would be good for several hundred miles of cruising, but actually being in air combat would eat into that fast, and he spent a good amount of time in combat.
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Popete posted:Was it historical that HE-111 were used to bomb ships? Yep. It was pretty much the Luftwaffe's main torpedo bomber. quote:I always assumed they mostly used JU-87 and they would go out in larger groups, not 1 bomber escorted by 2 fighters. That's my major problem with this film: the laser-focus on the few individual cases involved understates the scale of the whole action. Yes, they'd go out in larger groups. Thousands of sorties per day were being flown. The RAF and Luftwaffe both lost about 150 aircraft during the evacuation period.
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got any sevens posted:Would 300k less mouths to feed have impacted england much? Dis they have plenty of food to go around while waiting to re-invade france? England engaged in food rationing up until 1954. They did not have plenty of food to go around, and that's why the Battle of the Atlantic was so significant. The population was over 40 million, though. So 300k fewer mouths to feed doesn't make much difference.
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