La battaglia d'Inghilterra

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La battaglia d'Inghilterra movie poster.

Movie (1969)
French title : Sur Ordre du Führer or Aigles sur Londres
English title : Eagles Over London
Japanese title : 空爆大作戦

Starring:
Frederick Stafford (Captain Paul Stevens)
Van Johnson (Air Marshal George Taylor)
Francisco Rabal (Martin Donovan)
Evelyn Stewart (Meg)

(Synopsis needed)


North American T-6

Acting sometimes as a Messerschmit 109 straffing retreating troops and civil people refugees ...

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... or acting as Junkers Ju 87 Stuka over the beaches.

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Hispano Aviación HA-1112-M1L

Buchons -late Messerschmitt Bf 109's Spanish derivative- played the Bf 109's opposition (!), the Hawker Hurricane.

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Supermarine Spitfire

Well-known archive footage seen as an overlay.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

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Unidentified Aircraft

British types acting as Luftwaffe fighters.
Such windshield is shared by Miles Master and Miles Martinet. Very surprising as despite built by thousands, these types were no longer in use and no surviving aircraft is known. Despite seen 'in flight', no evidence of that : the closeup avoids wings, engine and propeller. If really such aircraft, a heavy work to reshape the greenhouse and fairing was done to convert this two seat into a single seat fighter.
Note the I./JG 27 emblem on the cowling ... not yet existing during the summer 1940 despite the unit really took part in the fighting in the early stages of the Battle of Britain !
With a Supermarine Spitfire in the background.

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Seen again later with different markings (this Puma (?) emblem is close to a Hungarian one)
Note that some emblem are real like the 2/JG 3 or the one of Jagdgeschwader 2 (JG 2) "Richthofen" ; as well as Kampfgeschwader 26 (this one seen on a bomber) :

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Fictional Bomber

English night bombing of Berlin. The machine gun was usually over the sight ...

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Vickers Wellington

Vickers Wellington bomb bay...

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Heinkel He 111

... but when the same crew is dropping bombs, we see a Heinkel He 111 !

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Short S.29 Stirling

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

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Fictional Aircraft

Could be a Vickers Wellington but several points are uncorrect.

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Hispano Aviación HA-1112-M1L

Still acting as RAF fighters ... during the night raid (no escort fighter during such mission, especially in 1940 !).

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Various code seen on several Buchons during takeoff : RF°T and RF°L and RF°H and RF°N ...
RF was the RAF squadron code used from August 1940 to April 1945 by No. 303 (Polish) Squadron.

RF-L.
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CASA 2.111

Among the Lufwaffe raid, if fighters are from British types, the bombers are these Spanish derivatives of the German Heinkel He 111, used in several other movies about the Battle of Britain (IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing)).

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk V

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk II

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Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

GU+AC Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka of the Luftwaffe.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

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K?+?K Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka, another footage used several times :

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Unidentified Aircraft

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Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Mitsubishi A6M Zero ?
Mitsubishi A6M Zero ?
Mitsubishi A6M Zero ?

Westland Lysander

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

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CASA 2.111

Note the yellow North American T-6/Harvard in the far background.
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk I

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

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Messerschmitt Bf 109 F

The type reached the front line a year later ... and this model is of poor quality.

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Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

Models at first :

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Perhaps one of Stuka archive footage used in Wrzesien - tak bylo... ?

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