| VHS Cassette (also available as DVD Video). With so much interest in the 60th anniversary of D-Day, it's very appropriate that aviation specialist DD Video has chosen now to release the first-ever film profile of an aircraft that made such a vital contribution to the Normandy Campaign. TYPHOON AT WAR is the story of the Hawker Typhoon - the planned replacement for the Hawker Hurricane which was designed as a fighter-interceptor but which ultimately proved to be a first rate ground attack aircraft. On D-Day Typhoons were some of the first aircraft over the Normandy beaches. Then, during the Allies' relentless march through Europe, it was the Typhoon that blasted anything from tanks, trains, radar sites to ammunition dumps. Initially armed with twelve .303 Browning machine guns, the Typhoon went on to be fitted with four cannons, 500lb bombs under the wings or a lethal array of rockets. Towards the end of the war, it even dropped napalm. TYPHOON AT WAR features extensive archive footage, newly released by the Imperial War Museum and unseen for 60 years. It includes very early Mark 1b footage, early bomb and ditching tests, air to air film of Typhoons, 'shoot-down' footage from German camera crews and extensive Typhoon gun camera film. There are also exclusive interviews with no less than four surviving Typhoon pilots - Sir Alec Atkinson, Flt Ltnt Richard 'Dickie' Armstrong, Squadron Leader Rik Dupre and Sir Kenneth Ada - who provide vivid, first hand accounts of what it was like to fly and fight in the aircraft. Expert commentary is provided by Kev Darling, author of many books on fighter aircraft and perhaps the definitive book on the Typhoon. No Contents Listing Published, See Description |
