Title:EDGAR LEE RECALLS CHANNEL DASH BY GERMAN NAVY IN FEBRUARY 1942 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 308
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Summary: Commemorative television report on the Channel Dash by the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen under the command of Vice Admiral Ciliax in February 1942 uses German archive newsreel footage and the present day testimony of Edgar Lee DSO of Fleet Air Arm Squadron 825 to recall the event from a British perspective.
Description: Surviving Swordfish Observer Sub-Lieutenant Edgar Lee DSO (now a geography teacher and Deputy-Headmaster) recalls valiant Fleet Air Arm attack against German Navy, death of Eugene Esmonde VC and the ditching of his own plane in the English Channel. German film conveys intensity of air attacks by RAF planes (Wellingtons identifiable, but no Swordfish, unidentifiable distant plane crashes in sea), attacked by naval anti-aircraft tracer fire and Luftwaffe fighters.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 308
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:1977-02
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Anglia Television (Production company)
