England is in full bloom.
You may or may not be aware that the Happy Warriors project is now split into two parts. Part I is the documentary film and Part II is a collection of wartime biographies or ‘tributes’.
The plan is to put thirty of these tributes together for inclusion on a DVD release as [...]

With that in mind perhaps today is more appropriate since 65 years ago many people must have endured the mother of all hangovers. The country breathed a collective sigh of relief, people partied in the streets, I wonder what it felt like to be connected to each other like that?

Greetings.
Dan Kanemoto, an award-winning filmmaker and animator posted news of his new release on the armyairforces forums this week. Articles of War is a 12 minute animated short about one pilots experiences flying a B-24 liberator during the Second world war. It looks gorgeous and this cartoon crew photo from the film is the coolest [...]

On 4th April 1945 Liberators of the 2nd Air Division took off from their bases in East Anglia to bomb airfields in Germany. At 0539 that morning aircraft serial number 44-50838 nickname Red Bow was airborne and headed in the direction of the jet airfields near the German town of Parchim. Piloted by Lt. Robert [...]

More sad news last week at the passing of 448th veteran Leroy Engdahl on 8th Feb. He was 90 years old.
I interviewed Leroy on camera at a group reunion in Orlando, Florida in May 2007. He was frail but in good spirits and was able to regale us with his stories. At one point Leroy [...]

I am stalked by the memory of a school teacher who declared that I had some wonderful ideas but rarely followed them through. So here are a few of them and in time you can be the judge.
• Create your own history page
I’ve had some interest from people willing to write a few lines, [...]

Yesterday I ran out of space on the new drive i bought. Gutted. I was about to start digitising all the interviews I’d recorded with 448th veterans at one of their last reunions. This is something I should have done a long, long time ago and too late did I understand that these talking heads [...]

Happy holidays, that is if you are lucky enough to be on holiday yet.
I feel like apologising for not posting enough content in 2009 (content is king, content is king) but I won’t make excuses and instead will pledge to leap into the New Year, and resolve to say more, post more and generally [...]

One of the great things about this project is the goodwill that emanates from pretty much everyone connected with the 448th and it’s history.
Some are the sons and daughters of 448th veterans, and on a deeply personal level they of course have strong feelings about their Dad, their Uncles, their brothers. They’ve probably heard [...]

This years bonfire night and firework display was another good opportunity to head over to Seething to shoot some more material for the project. It shows another way in which the old airfield is still used by the local community and gives me the option of using fireworks footage as illustration for VE Day perhaps.
Production [...]