Category — Music

Today was characterised by howling wind and rain. It’s easy to see why, for some 8th Air Force veterans, their lingering memory of East Anglia involves lots of mud, rain, fog or drizzle (or all of the above). Apparently the idea that Eskimos have a hundred different words for snow is an urban legend so subsequently I’m unable to draw a witty comparison here between their language and ours but needless to say it rains here quite a bit and in the winter it can be pretty horrible. The region is not known for it’s hills so the wind and rain just cuts right into you. If you were sleeping in a nissen hut with only a small coke burner for heat and you had to grope through the blackout to a 3AM mission briefing in driving rain and penetrating cold and then had to spend the next 7 plus hours in temperatures of 20 below trapped in a flying sardine can hoping you didn’t get killed any second…Puts things in perspective.

I’m still obsessively listening to Josh Winiberg’s music which I hope to use on the film soundtrack.

A new follower of note on Twitter is airfix models (would they help fund my projects?)

Tara Connolly has made another trip to the U.S National Archives and posted yet more 448th mission reports. Tara also pulled a whole load of photographs of various aircraft from the 8th and 15th Air Forces. Mostly crash photos here, both tragic and fascinating, thanks Tara.

More soon.

A huge thank you to Chris and his St. John’s RC Cathedral choir who very kindly allowed us to make a recording of them last week for use in the film. We flirted with failure when our laptop decided to go haywire but Richey soon had things up and running. What a wonderful sound. I’m looking forward to hearing the final mix.