Love this song so much!!! Am a US Air Force Desert Storm and Provide Comfort Veteran..worked side by side with the Dutch, RAF, RAAF, Spanish, German Luftwaffe, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and a few other AF. I cannot tell you how proud a moment 'twas to work alongside ALL of them helping bring relief to the starving Kurdish refugees back then in the spring/early summer of 1991..we airlifted in 34.7 million lbs of cargo to protect and save 7 million people from dying there! Thank you!
This was the first movie I had ever seen in a real Movie Theater, heck I was 6 years old. We were stationed at Loring AFB, Maine. It was 1962 dad was flying the KC-135 Tanker. His dad was key General in WW2, Maj. Gen. Haywood Hansell wrote many of the numerous AWPDs (Air War Planning Docs) that defeated Hitler's war making. In other words the day light bombing raids, the Mighty 8th Air Force and the fantastic B-17. He kept Gen. Hap Arnold happy especially after the P-51 escorts arrived.
Isn't the picture from the wrong film :) Thats Dambusters, 617 Squadron, 633 squadron was Mosquito's bombing a cliff face to crush a rocket fuel factory.
I have just been to "The Spirit of Tring" festival where they had a spitfire performing acrobatics to this theme, flight of the spitfire and the dambusters theme. So patriotic ! I loved it !
@VIKINGxDNA According to Cliff Robertson the who should know (since he had a big part in the script rewrite) the ending is ambiguous - iow the character of Roy Grant neither dies nor lives. In the book though he definitely lives and is taken prisoner. He is reunited with Hilde after the war. I recently sent Cliff some questions about 633 squadron and he was kind enough to reply. Google 'Cliff Robertson Questionnaire' if you want to see his responses on my blog.
often forgotten is the simple fact that although london and many eastern counties took a pasting from bosh britain and her colonies as a whole took the war to the germans not forgetting our american cousins and even the ruskies without who blighty would be run by officious types obssessed by rules regs and run by a ruling class with britain full of foreigners with no interest in the good of the british people oooer did we win?
When we were a nation who stood proud and fought for what we beleaved in.
When England was a land of men and heroes. When we were not ruled by other countries, politicans from abroad and health and safty rules. When we knew how to make good quality movies and the music to go with them, when we produced the finest products in the world, When England was England and men were men.....
@TheKingkahoona lol Blighty, where does that nick name originate, I am American and often wondered. We don't always understand the terms we hear in movies, I suppose like y'all don't understand some of ours, but we all know the famous John Wayne line, "Boys, send um to hell !!" And by God we did, thank God for our brave fathers, uncles and granddads they don't make brave men like them anymore. I hope we never have to be put to the test, but in my heart I believe we still got the right stuff.
Great theme. It always reminds me of the Mossies that we Kiwis and of course the Aussies flew during the war. The most famous raids the Kiwi squadron did were smashing the hell out of Phillips (not completely though - they still make lightbulbs), the famous Jailbreak Raid in France, and clobbering Gestapo HQ in Holland.
The Vid still is 617 sqd lancaster Bombers over the Rhur Dam after dropping the 'bouncing bomb' , 633 sqd was about Mosquitoes who attacked a 'heavy water' installation in Norway.
I really like this movie- but what I disliked about it was that they didn´t use the same enemy planes ( 109 ) as they worked with in "The Battle Of Britain"
This movie was the inspiration for the finale of the original Star Wars, where the fighters go in low through a narrow valley, being shot at from all around, but eventually manage to get a bomb smack on target destroying the bad guys.
About the only thing left to be proud of, is the memories of what our country stood for. The brave men / women who lost thier lives for something they beleaved in.
i have very emotional feelings with this theme songmcoz this was my first movie with my father,when ever i listen this theme song i recall my father who died 21 year ago,so you can understand the state of my feeling /affliation with this theme son ,marvelous theme song otherwise
@TheViperhead100 Yep me too...Fortunately my dad is still alive ....We used to watch one of these movies 633,dam busters, battle of britain, etc etc...And he had the war music themes music album which he used to thrash on the record player...I remember as a 4 or 5 year old spinning around the lounge whenever this music came on....Great memories..
HA HA used to buy fly spray and me and the m8 would run around on the school holidays in the 70 whistling this as we shot down our quarry . or the airfix models we would hurry to build then smash up again happy times :) :)
633 Squadron is a 1964 British film which depicts the exploits of a fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron. It was based on a novel of the same name by Frederick E. Smith, published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force missions. The film was directed by Walter Grauman, produced by Cecil F. Ford for United Artists and stars Cliff Robertson and George Chakiris. 633 Squadron was the first aviation film to be shot in color and Panavision wide screen
What attempts you have made to make John Barry a Knight?
He should have been appointed a Knight I totally agree! But unless people get off their arses and vote and complain... sadly he like Ron Goodwin and Eric Coates will be sidelined! Why? because people just moaned about and did sod all!
A certain guy who saved our country from invasion.... but because he was gay he was chemically castrated by the governement of the day!
We have been given permission by the UK Cabinet Office to apply for the composer of this music, Ron Goodwin, to be belatedly knighted for his services to cinema music. If want to show your support for this please message me! We have already had emails of support from the UK, The Netherlands, New Zealand the USA and we have only been going a week!
@TrueHighLander Unfortunately we have discovered that HM Government will not award ANY posthumous awards except for bravery. However, we are workking with other groups campaigning for belated Honours and our aim is to getronknighted!
Count me in. The guy was brilliant. The theme music to "633 Squadron", the opening credits to "Battle of Britian", plus, "Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines." All great stuff.
Does anyone else remember running around in a circle at the end of the alternative Monday night at the Ritz in Manchester back in the 90's. Great Days!
I don't care what aircraft is in the picture, it's a truley great theme song, I remember seeing 633 squadron in the theater (yep, I'm old) and it was a good movie. And to think, the Mosquito, Lancaster and P-51 (to name a few ) all owe it to the RollsRoyce Merlin engine, one of the most important pieces of hardware in the war.
@dsi220 And anyone who appreciaties the Merlin is fine by me! Among the few you don`t mention were the mighty Hurricane. I liked the movie,too. Among the exploits its stands for as a symbol were: the freeing of prisoners from Amiens jail, the attack on Gestapo HQ in Denmark and breaking up a rally in Berlin to be addressed by Goering who said no enemy aircraft would ever overfly the 3rd Reich.
There's a recording of this theme on the companion CD to the BATTLE OF BRITAIN: FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE CELEBRATION. It packs a bit more bombast into its notes than most recordings of this theme I've heard. The entire CD commemorates a glorious US tour by an astonishing array of talent, centered around the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Not a CD to be overlooked, if you should ever lay eyes upon it...
That's okay. I misplaced my copy of the B.O.B.50th concert recording, and I've been searching high and low for a replacement ever since. Do you know of the whereabouts of any?
Last year I was watching ameican TV while visiting the USA & there was a news programme on & the person interviewing said in a rather know it all tone of voice when we won the second world war.
Just wish I could have got hold of the TV stations phone number and correct the poor misguided man
Now I would like to know why the Americans ( without insulting anyone ) think that they won the second world war.
Because as far as I can remember they joined us 1/2 way through the war.
We should never forget the fallen and those that suffered. We should learn from the mistakes of both world wars, so that they should never happen again.
It is a shame though you are so right, as they do not teacher anything about world war 2 in our schools now a days.
My daughter who is 17 years old never knew what the holocaust was about until the other day she asked me about it.
I could not believe that she had not learnt about WW2 in school at all.
I think, to put it briefly, the education authorities do not want to engrain racial hatred in our youngsters, by showing them "MODERN history, and the war crimes of Japs, Germans etc etc
We did a bit in history about it and the holocaust and that but i knew more about what happened by watching the history channle and reading etc than i did by what my teacher told me (which most of it was wrong).
On a side note i tend to find that the male gender listen more about the second world war than females do, as my girl friend didn't know who gerbils was o.0
No, the guy you're thinking of with the round framed glasses is Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer of the SS. Goebbels was a bit weaselly looking though.
I won't stop watching it as i like it but I know what was false and what isn't on the channel. And yes most of it is incorrect but thats why i get my facts from soild souces.
Yeah, if you just want a standard background of what happened where then it's good but if you want to know what happened in detail like you said it's not good.
symbolizes the incredible courage of the thousands of young men who sacrificed their lives, so that we now, can sit infront of our PC's, and are FREE to make these comments
For those interested a fantastic book to read is night after night one thing that is made very clear most of the lanc crews where made up with New Zealanders Australians Canadians and Irish
He participated in the operations to deceive the Germans about the destination of the D day landings by dropping aluminium strips of window every four and half seconds throughout long patrols over the English Channel.I found him a quite soft spoken man and when we talked about that raid his response was it was just a job to do hes a old man now but one thing I noticed behind that frail old frame his eyes where like that of a 20 year old man
A few months ago I had the privilege to talk to Les Munro the last surviving pilot member of the dam busters Munro, as pilot of W-Willie, was scheduled to bomb the Sorpe dam. His bomber was damaged by flak over which knocked out the radio, and after a vote among the crew it turned back to land in Lincolnshire. During the war he won the DSO and DSO and DFC and later attained the rank of Squadron Leader Squadron
My landlord, when I was at university, was tailgunner on one of the Dambusters. His plane was shot down on a later flight, but obviously he survived (albeit with severe frostbite). Next-door to me was a Wellington bomber pilot, who also had tales to tell, and I also knew a pilot who had been held at Stalag Luft III (he helped with the theatre productions put on by the prisoners). These, and all who flew in that war, were incredible men almost beyond imagining.
When you talk to people who were there and fighting,Its not like watching a film or reading a book,These people lived it and we should at least respect them if not more so
Those Brave few the kept the world free. In planes made from wood so many died but they will never be forgotten. Never has so much been owed by so many to so few!
Ron based his composition on the numbers of the Squadron 6 and 3 It was intentional. The same as the TV Morse theme is made up of Morse code. It was intentional and for the time a musical first!
The music is Great and should be in rememberance of all the heroes ( Military personal & civies ) who died for thier country for what they beleaved in.
Why show a Lancaster bomber blowing up a dam when 633 squadron flew Mosquitoes light aitcraft. The mission was to drop bombs and cause an overhanging cliff to fall into the production area to stop production of heavy water ???
Well done for the post, True highlander. But... give us a pic of the Mosquito instead. Or even two of them. Heck, i'll settle for pic of Johnny Briggs in the two-man bubble cockpit.....
I believe this theme is often used in air displays involving British WW2-vintage warbirds and almost invariably back when Mosquitos still flew the skies. I can't say it's my favourite theme, but it is good and it does convey everything it is intended to convey, which is all that can ever be asked of a piece of music. It will likely be remembered long after the movie has ceased to be watched, such is the degree it has become ingrained in military aviation.
I agree. Not great like an Elmer Berstein or Dimitri Tiomkin, but still pretty good. Sorta cheesy and dated but not in a bad way, much in the vein of The Thunderbirds theme.
This is why we are Brits/I aM A jOCK ex para and i love this
TheAmig2000 3 days ago
Think you mean the Dam Busters
cooperman2112 1 week ago
633 Sqn, amd a pic` of a Lanc over the Rhore or Mona Damms? A slight mix up, one thinks?
8corporal 2 weeks ago
@8corporal That is the Mohnesee Dam in West Falen Germany.
cooperman2112 1 week ago
check out the intro to the Damned's 35th @ rock city yes i got it wrong thought it was the Dambusters march!!! Sorry
tinca1tinca 1 month ago
ERM! why have you posted a picture of the DAM BUSTERS?
16lydgate 1 month ago
Guys commenting about wrong plane. Read description. Problem solved
TheMotorstormer 1 month ago
633 flew mosquitos.....not lancs
lol
baldandold 2 months ago
Its funny because the picture on the video is a Landcaster.
Gracefulandings 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
It was 617 Sguadron.
critchley3819 2 months ago
Don`t mean to be pedantic ;) But that's a Lancaster in picture, not a mosquito
TheXander633 3 months ago
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@TheXander633 Wondered if someone would say something. :-)
sarnieken 2 months ago
Love this song so much!!! Am a US Air Force Desert Storm and Provide Comfort Veteran..worked side by side with the Dutch, RAF, RAAF, Spanish, German Luftwaffe, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and a few other AF. I cannot tell you how proud a moment 'twas to work alongside ALL of them helping bring relief to the starving Kurdish refugees back then in the spring/early summer of 1991..we airlifted in 34.7 million lbs of cargo to protect and save 7 million people from dying there! Thank you!
JMKeane2002TW 3 months ago 4
No,Thank you sir,You are a real hero your self@JMKeane2002TW
TrueHighLander 3 months ago 2
@JMKeane2002TW Thanks for telling us your life story.
coopsjc21 1 month ago
@JMKeane2002TW that's aload of countries to serve with as allies :D
gangstersteve1993 3 weeks ago
@JMKeane2002TW you are an idiot, and so am I to have seen this film 8 times as a kid.
You bigger one- you are a grown up proud of invading someone's country.
daseladi 4 days ago
JUST GOT TO LISTEN AGAIN FANTASTIC!!!!!!!
MrSpottydog2 3 months ago
TALLY HO! Lets show those Jerries! We'll be back in time for tea and biscuits!...wow the spirit of the RAF has gone down a bit.
TheRobloxfighter 4 months ago
@TheRobloxfighter The spirit of the whole military and the people of England has gone down.... Way down
mrhomerbojangles 3 months ago in playlist GREAT MOVIE THEMES
wrong theme song woops
motorguzzi100 4 months ago
This was the first movie I had ever seen in a real Movie Theater, heck I was 6 years old. We were stationed at Loring AFB, Maine. It was 1962 dad was flying the KC-135 Tanker. His dad was key General in WW2, Maj. Gen. Haywood Hansell wrote many of the numerous AWPDs (Air War Planning Docs) that defeated Hitler's war making. In other words the day light bombing raids, the Mighty 8th Air Force and the fantastic B-17. He kept Gen. Hap Arnold happy especially after the P-51 escorts arrived.
hartonium 5 months ago
Isn't the picture from the wrong film :) Thats Dambusters, 617 Squadron, 633 squadron was Mosquito's bombing a cliff face to crush a rocket fuel factory.
andygoth 7 months ago
I have just been to "The Spirit of Tring" festival where they had a spitfire performing acrobatics to this theme, flight of the spitfire and the dambusters theme. So patriotic ! I loved it !
greenroadster 7 months ago
2 people are nazi
123owenboy 9 months ago
Did Cliff Robertson die at the end of the movie ?
VIKINGxDNA 9 months ago
@VIKINGxDNA According to Cliff Robertson the who should know (since he had a big part in the script rewrite) the ending is ambiguous - iow the character of Roy Grant neither dies nor lives. In the book though he definitely lives and is taken prisoner. He is reunited with Hilde after the war. I recently sent Cliff some questions about 633 squadron and he was kind enough to reply. Google 'Cliff Robertson Questionnaire' if you want to see his responses on my blog.
LazloF 8 months ago
@VIKINGxDNA No he was one of the surviving pilots in the movie together with his co-pilot.
enterprise314 6 months ago
often forgotten is the simple fact that although london and many eastern counties took a pasting from bosh britain and her colonies as a whole took the war to the germans not forgetting our american cousins and even the ruskies without who blighty would be run by officious types obssessed by rules regs and run by a ruling class with britain full of foreigners with no interest in the good of the british people oooer did we win?
acefreaky 9 months ago
When we were a nation who stood proud and fought for what we beleaved in.
When England was a land of men and heroes. When we were not ruled by other countries, politicans from abroad and health and safty rules. When we knew how to make good quality movies and the music to go with them, when we produced the finest products in the world, When England was England and men were men.....
When Britannia ruled the waves !!
mrhomerbojangles 9 months ago
@mrhomerbojangles There is still hope :)
MrGezamo 9 months ago
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I love this movie music, bit the Len Goodwin (original) was better.
And why put a Dambuster picture on a strickly Mosquito subject?
BRUCELR 10 months ago
I love this theme tune, however the Len Goodwin (original version was better)
Why put a dambuster picture on this strickly Mosquito theme?
BRUCELR 10 months ago
@BRUCELR It was Ron Goodwin not Len. Hope you dont mind me correcting you there.
mightydancer 7 months ago
Makes me want to go Blitz the shit out of Germany " Talley Ho Old bean, lets drop one for Blighty"
TheKingkahoona 11 months ago
@TheKingkahoona lol Blighty, where does that nick name originate, I am American and often wondered. We don't always understand the terms we hear in movies, I suppose like y'all don't understand some of ours, but we all know the famous John Wayne line, "Boys, send um to hell !!" And by God we did, thank God for our brave fathers, uncles and granddads they don't make brave men like them anymore. I hope we never have to be put to the test, but in my heart I believe we still got the right stuff.
debzeppeliniv 10 months ago
is it me or does this sound like John Williams' music from "Hook" in some places?
DuBoisBand 11 months ago
The music is great - 633 Sqdn. But you are still showing a Dambusters' Lancaster bomber in the photo.
bobbowen65 1 year ago
@bobbowen65
A Lancaster is a beautiful airplane. Know the theme is a Mossie squadron, but the picture can fit in....
flyingtoday 1 year ago
pity the film is fictistious(not real, it didnt happen) would have been good for moral
weliketogloatitfc 1 year ago
Great theme. It always reminds me of the Mossies that we Kiwis and of course the Aussies flew during the war. The most famous raids the Kiwi squadron did were smashing the hell out of Phillips (not completely though - they still make lightbulbs), the famous Jailbreak Raid in France, and clobbering Gestapo HQ in Holland.
SugarTomAppleRoger 1 year ago
The film was good, but there never was a 633 squadron.
AIRANORAK 1 year ago
WRONG PICTURE
ChumbaWumbaStudios 1 year ago
The Vid still is 617 sqd lancaster Bombers over the Rhur Dam after dropping the 'bouncing bomb' , 633 sqd was about Mosquitoes who attacked a 'heavy water' installation in Norway.
sillymonkey2009 1 year ago
hello,please change photo to mossy u show lank cheers ex-raf
hurricane598 1 year ago
timers ready lads
mickwillie1 1 year ago
Actually the Dam Busters squadron was 617. I believe this is the song where they depart on the sortie to drop the bombs on the dams.
gphoule 1 year ago
I really like this movie- but what I disliked about it was that they didn´t use the same enemy planes ( 109 ) as they worked with in "The Battle Of Britain"
Cripperphlipper 1 year ago
the poster on the vid is from the dam busters, 317 squadron
kurwayork 1 year ago
Pub quiz fact:
This movie was the inspiration for the finale of the original Star Wars, where the fighters go in low through a narrow valley, being shot at from all around, but eventually manage to get a bomb smack on target destroying the bad guys.
TheophilusPWildbeest 1 year ago
About the only thing left to be proud of, is the memories of what our country stood for. The brave men / women who lost thier lives for something they beleaved in.
Thanks for a great piece of music.
mrhomerbojangles 1 year ago
i have very emotional feelings with this theme songmcoz this was my first movie with my father,when ever i listen this theme song i recall my father who died 21 year ago,so you can understand the state of my feeling /affliation with this theme son ,marvelous theme song otherwise
TheViperhead100 1 year ago 12
I am sorry@TheViperhead100
TrueHighLander 1 year ago
@TheViperhead100 i am sorry .. your father was a hero .. God Bless
rafferty246 11 months ago
@TheViperhead100 Yep me too...Fortunately my dad is still alive ....We used to watch one of these movies 633,dam busters, battle of britain, etc etc...And he had the war music themes music album which he used to thrash on the record player...I remember as a 4 or 5 year old spinning around the lounge whenever this music came on....Great memories..
DJHopsta 11 months ago 5
This is why I put these songs up cause music like smell brings back so many memories( IM sorry again for the picture being wrong)@DJHopsta
TrueHighLander 11 months ago 2
633 squadron did not operate Lancaster bombers, they operated mosquito's
thething335 1 year ago
HA HA used to buy fly spray and me and the m8 would run around on the school holidays in the 70 whistling this as we shot down our quarry . or the airfix models we would hurry to build then smash up again happy times :) :)
fgourlay 1 year ago
Top Gear has the most in genius uses for this song
OTUFilms 1 year ago
633 Squadron is a 1964 British film which depicts the exploits of a fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron. It was based on a novel of the same name by Frederick E. Smith, published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force missions. The film was directed by Walter Grauman, produced by Cecil F. Ford for United Artists and stars Cliff Robertson and George Chakiris. 633 Squadron was the first aviation film to be shot in color and Panavision wide screen
vvgggbuhfuqwhu2 1 year ago
the Mosquito being made of wood! Brave brave brave!
furryfish71 1 year ago
Anyone know the proper name for this music and who the composer was? 633 squadron isn't its proper name.
ianrkav 1 year ago
Call me really picky, but what an earth is a Lancaster bomber of 617 Sqn doing in the graphic to the 633 Mosquito Sqn?
tixta7 1 year ago
@tixta7 I was about to ask the very same thing. 633 were Mosquito fighter bombers, not Lancaster heavy bombers.
Bubo25 1 year ago
excellent
mrsloulou2010 1 year ago
what the hell is a bam buster? :D
rndmnrd 1 year ago
@rndmnrd Fred flintstones son, or was that BAM BAM
5872steve 1 year ago
@5872steve actually barney's son...hopefully not fred's, 'else betty's gonna have some 'splaining to do xD
BossHossGT500 1 year ago
Proud to be British !
What is lert of it anyway..
mrhomerbojangles 1 year ago
Why is it the picture of the Dambusters and the music is for 633 suadron?
WELLBRAN 1 year ago
LOL @ the description - I'#m so glad I read it before commenting =P
Great tune =D
MaxSafeheaD 1 year ago
"We - have - a - bah-nah- nah! You've got a bah - nah -nahr -too!" Yeah fucking brill'!
hasablad69 1 year ago
Hi
What attempts you have made to make John Barry a Knight?
He should have been appointed a Knight I totally agree! But unless people get off their arses and vote and complain... sadly he like Ron Goodwin and Eric Coates will be sidelined! Why? because people just moaned about and did sod all!
A certain guy who saved our country from invasion.... but because he was gay he was chemically castrated by the governement of the day!
We are a serious group!
Thank you for your comment!
John and Alwyn!
lincsposter 1 year ago
gives me shivers awesome thanks
shanondor 2 years ago
We have been given permission by the UK Cabinet Office to apply for the composer of this music, Ron Goodwin, to be belatedly knighted for his services to cinema music. If want to show your support for this please message me! We have already had emails of support from the UK, The Netherlands, New Zealand the USA and we have only been going a week!
lincsposter 2 years ago
superb...good luck with your quest guys
simon1716 2 years ago
This is long overdue ... you have my vote.
DrTosca 2 years ago
*Salutes*
Im behind you
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
@TrueHighLander Unfortunately we have discovered that HM Government will not award ANY posthumous awards except for bravery. However, we are workking with other groups campaigning for belated Honours and our aim is to getronknighted!
lincsposter 2 years ago
Count me in. The guy was brilliant. The theme music to "633 Squadron", the opening credits to "Battle of Britian", plus, "Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines." All great stuff.
LJBCRT 2 years ago 10
They go Up-didaly Up they go donw-didaly down
Brill
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
Get a life!
hasablad69 1 year ago
@hasablad Thank you for your comment! I am sure Ron's family will appreciate your wonderful words of wisdom. Take care!
lincsposter 1 year ago
Try to get John Barry knighted, as if you get to "elect" who Her Majesty bestows these honours on.
hasablad69 1 year ago
@lincsposter *Salutes* You have my vote Ron deserves it I'm behind you
Dom737800 1 year ago
Does anyone else remember running around in a circle at the end of the alternative Monday night at the Ritz in Manchester back in the 90's. Great Days!
simon1716 2 years ago
I don't care what aircraft is in the picture, it's a truley great theme song, I remember seeing 633 squadron in the theater (yep, I'm old) and it was a good movie. And to think, the Mosquito, Lancaster and P-51 (to name a few ) all owe it to the RollsRoyce Merlin engine, one of the most important pieces of hardware in the war.
dsi220 2 years ago 3
Go on you mate
Im the same( only 21( mentaly 40)
Thank you
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
@dsi220 And anyone who appreciaties the Merlin is fine by me! Among the few you don`t mention were the mighty Hurricane. I liked the movie,too. Among the exploits its stands for as a symbol were: the freeing of prisoners from Amiens jail, the attack on Gestapo HQ in Denmark and breaking up a rally in Berlin to be addressed by Goering who said no enemy aircraft would ever overfly the 3rd Reich.
jonnybottle 1 year ago
No worries Wallooga,atleast you were on the right lines.
alfiemooon 2 years ago
Did anyone know that the only Boss in the game "Grabbed by the Ghoulies" had a remix of this theme?
Segaman19 2 years ago
I like this.
blader45bc 2 years ago
nice tune my friend
craigpaul69 2 years ago
right music wrong pic - 633 squadron were mosquitoes that attacked v2 sites
dambusters theme much slower and grander.
wallooga 2 years ago 2
And costlier. Most people have no idea whatsoever just how heavy a price elite units have to pay in order to earn that status.
AdmiralCSN 2 years ago
Almost dude, the 633 squadron`s mission was to destroy the V2 fuel sites in Norway,not the V2 sites themselves....but you`re on the right lines.
alfiemooon 2 years ago
@alfiemooon
nice correction - - I'd have been over the wrong country - on my own !!
wallooga 2 years ago
I know it's odd but when i die i want this played after the ghostbusters theme :P
GGSDavejones 2 years ago 3
i might download and put it in my ipod and play it on the radio whilst i'm flying tomorro :)
Korentokuulla 2 years ago
Ron Goodwin rules!
lincsposter 2 years ago 2
There's a recording of this theme on the companion CD to the BATTLE OF BRITAIN: FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE CELEBRATION. It packs a bit more bombast into its notes than most recordings of this theme I've heard. The entire CD commemorates a glorious US tour by an astonishing array of talent, centered around the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Not a CD to be overlooked, if you should ever lay eyes upon it...
NCTaikoDrumboy 2 years ago
Don't take offence, but you sound like an extremely erudite spam bot
Crusader1089 2 years ago
That's okay. I misplaced my copy of the B.O.B.50th concert recording, and I've been searching high and low for a replacement ever since. Do you know of the whereabouts of any?
NCTaikoDrumboy 2 years ago
Last year I was watching ameican TV while visiting the USA & there was a news programme on & the person interviewing said in a rather know it all tone of voice when we won the second world war.
Just wish I could have got hold of the TV stations phone number and correct the poor misguided man
Now I would like to know why the Americans ( without insulting anyone ) think that they won the second world war.
Because as far as I can remember they joined us 1/2 way through the war.
Respect to all
mrhomerbojangles 2 years ago 2
Visit the American Cemetary just outside Cambridge
ssbn03 2 years ago
Be nice, they got it down to 2 years in the second world war instead of the 3 years it took in the first one ^^
GGSDavejones 2 years ago
The best war movie theme ever--how can you not feel patriotic listening to that.
ronaldosucks1 2 years ago 2
take that fritz !
rayneville121 2 years ago 2
We had a lancaster flew real low over my house the other weekend, what a beautiful sight it was.
StoRmF5 2 years ago 3
You were so lucky! Its the only one still
flying in uk, unless you live in Canada, where the only other one (privately owned) still flies
-its a great tragedy there are only 2 left
we buried most of them after ww2
-madness, but everbody wanted to forget
the war
darkmossie633 2 years ago
We shall never forget
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
We should never forget the fallen and those that suffered. We should learn from the mistakes of both world wars, so that they should never happen again.
It is a shame though you are so right, as they do not teacher anything about world war 2 in our schools now a days.
My daughter who is 17 years old never knew what the holocaust was about until the other day she asked me about it.
I could not believe that she had not learnt about WW2 in school at all.
Regards & Respect to you
mrhomerbojangles 2 years ago
I think, to put it briefly, the education authorities do not want to engrain racial hatred in our youngsters, by showing them "MODERN history, and the war crimes of Japs, Germans etc etc
-"political correctness" is the explanation
My best respects to you too
darkmossie633 2 years ago
We did a bit in history about it and the holocaust and that but i knew more about what happened by watching the history channle and reading etc than i did by what my teacher told me (which most of it was wrong).
On a side note i tend to find that the male gender listen more about the second world war than females do, as my girl friend didn't know who gerbils was o.0
GGSDavejones 2 years ago
Gobbels He's the four-eyed rat-faced one.
Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
oldsarge 2 years ago
No, the guy you're thinking of with the round framed glasses is Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer of the SS. Goebbels was a bit weaselly looking though.
jadefalconmk1 2 years ago
The History Channel is the worst history lesson you can get, spreading incorrect information all the time. Don't watch it, mate.
pwner9999 2 years ago
I won't stop watching it as i like it but I know what was false and what isn't on the channel. And yes most of it is incorrect but thats why i get my facts from soild souces.
GGSDavejones 2 years ago
Then it's good. HC is good for standard info but not for detailed stuff.
pwner9999 2 years ago
Yeah, if you just want a standard background of what happened where then it's good but if you want to know what happened in detail like you said it's not good.
GGSDavejones 2 years ago
yea - you in Essex?
wallooga 2 years ago
Northampton
StoRmF5 2 years ago
thats a lancaster not a mosquito ?????? thats from dambusters not 633 squadron
nobbynooby 2 years ago
633 Squadron is fictitious. It was a movie about a Mosquito Sqadron in WWII. The picture is of a Lancaster from the "Dam Busters" - 617 Squadron
entabeniair 2 years ago
Yes, but the film and the music for me,
symbolizes the incredible courage of the thousands of young men who sacrificed their lives, so that we now, can sit infront of our PC's, and are FREE to make these comments
darkmossie633 2 years ago
Vainglorious bullshit! War - after the fact,
thanks to Hollywood.
hasablad69 2 years ago
I remember seeing a Mosquito back in the 70s at the Dalcross airshow- what a sound! Two seriously loud Rolls Royce engines...
timdalf 2 years ago
great post thank you
plumpton444 2 years ago
Thanks
Glad I could help
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
For those interested a fantastic book to read is night after night one thing that is made very clear most of the lanc crews where made up with New Zealanders Australians Canadians and Irish
storchnuts 2 years ago
Not most. Half British half from the colonies.
m52spy 2 years ago 3
He participated in the operations to deceive the Germans about the destination of the D day landings by dropping aluminium strips of window every four and half seconds throughout long patrols over the English Channel.I found him a quite soft spoken man and when we talked about that raid his response was it was just a job to do hes a old man now but one thing I noticed behind that frail old frame his eyes where like that of a 20 year old man
storchnuts 2 years ago
A few months ago I had the privilege to talk to Les Munro the last surviving pilot member of the dam busters Munro, as pilot of W-Willie, was scheduled to bomb the Sorpe dam. His bomber was damaged by flak over which knocked out the radio, and after a vote among the crew it turned back to land in Lincolnshire. During the war he won the DSO and DSO and DFC and later attained the rank of Squadron Leader Squadron
storchnuts 2 years ago
My landlord, when I was at university, was tailgunner on one of the Dambusters. His plane was shot down on a later flight, but obviously he survived (albeit with severe frostbite). Next-door to me was a Wellington bomber pilot, who also had tales to tell, and I also knew a pilot who had been held at Stalag Luft III (he helped with the theatre productions put on by the prisoners). These, and all who flew in that war, were incredible men almost beyond imagining.
fishcat42 2 years ago
When you talk to people who were there and fighting,Its not like watching a film or reading a book,These people lived it and we should at least respect them if not more so
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
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aardwolf71 2 years ago
What a div! The music is 633 sqn , but the pic is 617 sqn.
I've been to the Mohne dam twice. It's really nice area to visit btw.
aardwolf71 2 years ago
OK,Lte me say this,I know the diff from the Dam Busters and the 633 bombing the secret fuel depto,The pic is sibolic of the RAF and their fight
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
my dad told me that the 633 squafron flew de haviland mosquitos (with the butiful sounding RR merlin)
FinalFreek 2 years ago
Lol could of had a mosquito as the picture but ohwell its still good :)
tshirtandties 2 years ago
Love it, thanks. Should have had a good picture of a Mosquito not a Lancaster though.
dmil1057 2 years ago
Those Brave few the kept the world free. In planes made from wood so many died but they will never be forgotten. Never has so much been owed by so many to so few!
MWR166 2 years ago 4
They shall never be forgoten
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
Spot on....
rainbowrealms 2 years ago
This music has always been magic to me , released when I was just 2 years old so I guess my dad played it often at home!
RIP all those who died in action and have been victims of war
loukanika 2 years ago
Ditto
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
Steady... Steady..... Steady... Bomb gone! I thank you all for your supreme sacrifice(I'm 30 btw)
Rasterizing 2 years ago
Great theme, I have the movie excellent story, shame alot of those folk died trying to blow up that damn mountain ....
6xentrix6 2 years ago
Lost but never forgoten
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
Lest we forget, but they are at peace
6xentrix6 2 years ago
We shall never forget the sacrifice they made
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
lovely post mate thanks
plumpton444 2 years ago
Thanks
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
Did you know the theme to this goes
1-2-3-4-5-6
1-2-3
1-2-3
because the composer couldn't think of any other ideas?
jpredman1 2 years ago
No I didnt know that,Thanks
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
Ron based his composition on the numbers of the Squadron 6 and 3 It was intentional. The same as the TV Morse theme is made up of Morse code. It was intentional and for the time a musical first!
lincsposter 1 year ago
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teddystone510 2 years ago
Who gives cares what the picture is of.
The music is Great and should be in rememberance of all the heroes ( Military personal & civies ) who died for thier country for what they beleaved in.
Thanks for sharing a brillaint piece of music
mrhomerbojangles 2 years ago 4
Thanks,Im a great collector of RAF Uniforms and Equipment and I remember those who lost their life's and those who fought to keep Briton Safe
TrueHighLander 2 years ago
Why show a Lancaster bomber blowing up a dam when 633 squadron flew Mosquitoes light aitcraft. The mission was to drop bombs and cause an overhanging cliff to fall into the production area to stop production of heavy water ???
RonHarrison52 3 years ago
you might be right RonHarrison52 but surely you could appreciate the sentiment?
alec1s 2 years ago
its just a nice picture
laservader1 2 years ago
brilliant music!
joerobinson 3 years ago
Thanks,Glad you like
TrueHighLander 3 years ago
Well done for the post, True highlander. But... give us a pic of the Mosquito instead. Or even two of them. Heck, i'll settle for pic of Johnny Briggs in the two-man bubble cockpit.....
fulcrum100 3 years ago
Ok,Ill get to work on it
TrueHighLander 3 years ago
Good man yourself. Keeping it real for the Balsa Wood wonder......
fulcrum100 3 years ago
Ill do what I can
TrueHighLander 3 years ago
Good man yourself.
fulcrum100 3 years ago
Thanks
TrueHighLander 3 years ago
Call me pedantic but wasn't 633 squadron about Mosquitos. So why have a pic of a Lanc of 617.
Infidelerious 3 years ago
I know,Im sorry,Didnt want to use the DVD cover and couldent find any good pics
TrueHighLander 3 years ago
It's still a good pic matey.
Infidelerious 3 years ago
Just wanted to sum up the RAF history in one pic and I thought this would be fitting
TrueHighLander 3 years ago
my orchestra are SOO playing this
it sounds awesome
andrew93hughes 3 years ago
I believe this theme is often used in air displays involving British WW2-vintage warbirds and almost invariably back when Mosquitos still flew the skies. I can't say it's my favourite theme, but it is good and it does convey everything it is intended to convey, which is all that can ever be asked of a piece of music. It will likely be remembered long after the movie has ceased to be watched, such is the degree it has become ingrained in military aviation.
2206411411 3 years ago
I agree. Not great like an Elmer Berstein or Dimitri Tiomkin, but still pretty good. Sorta cheesy and dated but not in a bad way, much in the vein of The Thunderbirds theme.
larrypearce2 3 years ago
Do you think Bernstein or Tiomkin would
have produced better and more appropriate music for this particular subject though?
darkmossie633 2 years ago
i love this tune!!
hop2itgromit 3 years ago
Thanks,Glad you like
TrueHighLander 3 years ago