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Description: | South African Broadcasting Corporation programme entitled, 'The Forgotten War' on South African personnel of Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1914-1919
(Interspersed are uncatalogued songs)
REEL 1 Introduction to broadcast, 'The Forgotten War' on South African officers in Royal Flying Corps, 1914-1918. Excerpts from interviews with General Kenneth van der Spuy, Colonel Stanley Walton and Lieutenant Bert Entwhistle of Royal Flying Corps. van der Spuy: pre-war flying experiences and story of crash landing; hours flown; story of poor landing at Dover, ca 12/8/1914; cross-Channel flight from Dover to St Omer, France, 14/8/1914. Walton: conscription into Durban Light Infantry, 1913; reaction alongside Arthur Harris to first sight of aircraft, ca 1914; background to transfer to RFC; flying training and story of first solo; role of scout aircraft. Entwhistle: artillery cooperation role. Walton: expansion of RAF by 1918. van der Spuy: nature of aerial tactics in scout aircraft; attitude of high command to RFC; Entwhistle: story of Major E J Tyson using RE8 as scout aircraft in 5 Sqdn, 1918. Walton: changing attitudes of high command and developing role of RAF. van der Spuy: personal morale; attitudes to South African. Walton: story of shooting down Fokker DVII in flames in dogfight, 1918. Van der Spuy: story of failed attempts to shoot down German aircraft with shotgun and revolver, ca 1914. Walton: treatment of captured German and British air personnel; attitude to infantry. Van der Spuy: patriotic feelings. Walton: personal morale. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Miller, Peter | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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