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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 5 min.) ; 332232025 bytes |
| Summary |
One autumn weekend, early in World War Two at an aircraft factory at Broughton in North Wales, a group of British workers, men and women, set out to break the world record for building a Wellington bomber from scratch.Smashing the current 48 hour record held by the Americans, the workers managed to build the bomber in an astonishing 23 hours and 50 minutes. They worked so quickly that the test pilot had to be turfed out of bed to take it into the air, 24 hours and 48 minutes after the first part of the airframe had been laid.This program attempts to find out more about the men and women who made this record-breaking Wellington. It has traced six of them, one of whom, Bill Anderson, was only 14 years old at the time. Their story of the excitement of the attempt lies at the heart of this documentary. (From the UK) (Documentary CC Follow the conversation on Twitter #SBSdoco |
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Broadcast 2012-11-02 at 21:35:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Airplane factories.
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Attack planes -- Design and construction.
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Bombers -- Design and construction.
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Political science -- Decision making.
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Women in missionary work.
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World War (1939-1945)
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United Kingdom.
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Streaming video
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Williams, Peter, director
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Anderson, Bill, contributor
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Cooling, Rupert, contributor
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Hastings, Max, contributor
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