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unfort for the aussies only 8/12/13

WELLINGTON BOMBER
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One autumn weekend, early in WWII at an aircraft factory at Broughton in North Wales, a group of British workers, men and women, set out to break the world record for building a Wellington bomber from scratch. Smashing the current 48 hour record held by the Americans, the workers managed to build the bomber in an astonishing 23 hours and 50 minutes. So who were the men and women who made this record-breaking Wellington? This program has traced six of them, one of whom, Bill Anderson, was only 14 years old. This is their story. (From the UK) (Documentary)

9:30pm - 10:35pm SBS 1

 

[John Newman]

unfort for the aussies only 8/12/13

WELLINGTON BOMBER
G
One autumn weekend, early in WWII at an aircraft factory at Broughton in North Wales, a group of British workers, men and women, set out to break the world record for building a Wellington bomber from scratch. Smashing the current 48 hour record held by the Americans, the workers managed to build the bomber in an astonishing 23 hours and 50 minutes. So who were the men and women who made this record-breaking Wellington? This program has traced six of them, one of whom, Bill Anderson, was only 14 years old. This is their story. (From the UK) (Documentary)

9:30pm - 10:35pm SBS 1

Good doco, watched a fair bit of that last night, it's been on before a while ago and saw all of it last time.

I think they said of the 6000 (think they said 6000?) workforce, half were women, what I did find interesting was when one of the women being interviewed for the doco said how they would do 12 hour shifts sewing the linen material that became the airframe covering and it had to accurately done to something like '8 or 10 stitches to the inch' and when she stuffed up once, she had to unpick it all and start again, don't thing she made that mistake again!

It reminded me of my Mother's job toward the end of WWII, after she left school she worked in a facility somewhere here in Sydney packing parachutes for pilots and aircrew in the RAAF.

We used to have a bit of a joke with her about that (if you had seen the way she ironed and folded linen when we were younger you'd know why), we used to say, 'pity the poor bloke that got one of yours!'.

Needless to say we would get a real dirty look from her and we would quickly shut up!