Well Meet Again (Four Discs)

Description

For three-and-a-half years, the small Suffolk town of Market Wetherby has been doggedly getting on with the war – a time of ration books, shortages and ‘making do’, of war office telegrams and barrage balloons, or Digging for Victory and identity cards, and of BBC news on the ‘wireless’. A time, in fact, of all our yesterdays. Into this quiet corner of England arrives the 525th Bomb Group of the US Eights Air Group, with its Flying Fortress bombers and its 2,000 officers and men, full of confidence, generosity, instant friendliness and casual violence – over-paid, over-sexed and over here.Episode listing:Disc One:- All Day and Every Day.- Hands Across the Sea.- The Milk Run.Disc Two:- One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back.- The Big One.- Up the Smoke.Disc Three:- Fighting Men.- A Wing and a Prayer.- You’ll Never Know.Disc Four:- Old Enough to Fight.- One Day at a Time.- Exceptional Circumstances.- The End of the Beginning., For three-and-a-half years, the small Suffolk town of Market Wetherby has been doggedly getting on with the war – a time of ration books, shortages and ‘making do’, of war office telegrams and barrage balloons, or Digging for Victory and identity cards, and of BBC news on the ‘wireless’. A time, in fact, of all our yesterdays. Into this quiet corner of England arrives the 525th Bomb Group of the US Eights Air Group, with its Flying Fortress bombers and its 2,000 officers and men, full of confidence, generosity, instant friendliness and casual violence – over-paid, over-sexed and over here.Episode listing:Disc One:- All Day and Every Day.- Hands Across the Sea.- The Milk Run.Disc Two:- One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back.- The Big One.- Up the Smoke.Disc Three:- Fighting Men.- A Wing and a Prayer.- You’ll Never Know.Disc Four:- Old Enough to Fight.- One Day at a Time.- Exceptional Circumstances.- The End of the Beginning.Special Features:None listed.