B-17 takes off Toulouse-Blagnac this Sunday June 24 2001. It has on its board Merril C BUTIKOFER. John H. WILSON is on the tarmac, and a crumb does not lose any.
57 years earlier, June 25, 1944, They took off of the south of England with 7 other American to bombard the installations German with Blagnac.
The flak of Colomiers the key and B-17 is crushed in Cornebarrieu. Eights jumped and were made prisoner. The bomber, for an unknown reason, does not jump and will find death. It is the lieutenant Harold M. GNESIN. His/her sister, Isabelle LESSER is present, and will receive the homage paid to her brother.
The film follows all the manifestations of the memory to organize at the end of June 2001 by associations " ESCADRILLE CROIX DU SUD " and " CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE ".
- Report
- Exist in VHS pal, DVD pal and ntsc
- Duration: 90 mn
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