Closing the Ring is a 2007 film directed by an English filmmaker who served in the film unit of of the Royal Air Force duing what war?
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Closing the Ring Closing the Ring is a 2007 film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, and Brenda Fricker. It was the final film directed by then octogenarian Attenborough, who died seven years later.
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Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Attenborough joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and served in the film unit. He went on several bombing raids over Europe and filmed action from the rear gunner's position.
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Jeaffreson Greswell Air Commodore Jeaffreson Herbert Greswell CB CBE DSO DFC RAF (28 July 1916 – 19 November 2000) was a British pilot during World War II and a senior Royal Air Force officer in the post-war years.
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Fred Copeman Frederick Bayes Copeman OBE (1907–1983) was an English volunteer in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, commanding the British Battalion. He is also notable for contributing to London's air raid defences during the Second World War.
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Frank Harbord Frank Alfred Harbord DFM (12 September 1918 – 19 January 2010) was a member of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and flew on many missions over German occupied Europe. He was stationed in Watton with 82 sqn in 1940. In 1941 he carried out low level shipping strikes and raids over northern France with 18 Sqn from RAF Oulton. A "Circus" operation carried out against a large power station in Northern France led by Sqn/Ldr S J Monroe DFC brought a rare congratulatory signal from Stevenson. In 1941 he was with 105 sqn in Malta where he again took part in low level attacks on shipping. He also served in Burma and India with 60 sqn.
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Bunny Currant Christopher Frederick Currant, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (14 December 1911 – 12 March 2006), nicknamed "Bunny", was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War.
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Frederick Charles Hurrell Air Vice Marshal Frederick "Freddie" Charles Hurrell, (24 April 1928 – 3 October 2008) was a senior medical officer in the Royal Air Force who spent his 35-year military career in aviation medicine and served as Director-General of the RAF Medical Services from 1986 to 1988.
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Leslie Dalton-Morris Air Marshal Sir Leslie Dalton-Morris, (7 April 1906 – 28 October 1976) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander in the middle of the twentieth century. He played a leading role in the use of signals in the Air Force both during and after the Second World War.
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Roger Palin Air Chief Marshal Sir Roger Hewlett Palin, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 8 July 1938) is a former senior Royal Air Force commander.
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Royal Air Force Commandos Royal Air Force Commandos were formed from units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. They were formed in 1942 and served in the European and Far Eastern theatres of war before being disbanded in 1946.
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John Barker (RAF officer) Air Vice Marshal John Lindsay Barker (12 November 1910 – 7 May 2004) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and the following years. He was the second Commander of the Royal Ceylon Air Force during the early 1960s.
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Robin Turner (priest) (Peter) Robin Turner, CB, DL, QHC, AKC (born 8 March 1942) is a British Anglican priest and retired military chaplain. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Chaplain-in-Chief, and thereby head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch, and Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force.
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Edward Ellington Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 December 1877 – 13 June 1967) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He served in the First World War as a staff officer and then as Director-General of Military Aeronautics and subsequently as Controller-General of Equipment. In the inter-war years he held command positions in the Middle East, in India and then in Iraq. He served as Chief of the Air Staff in the mid-1930s and in that role he implemented a plan, known as 'Scheme F', to increase the size of the Royal Air Force to 187 squadrons (five bomber squadrons for every two fighter squadrons reflecting the dominance of the bomber strategy at the time) within three years to counter the threat from Hitler's Germany. He also broke up the command known as "Air Defence of Great Britain" to create RAF Fighter Command, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and RAF Training Command. He then served as Inspector-General of the RAF until his retirement in 1940.
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Johnny Hyde (RAF officer) Wing Commander Ernest Leslie ‘Johnny’ Hyde DFC (1914–1942), was a British senior officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II, best known for his lead role in the Ministry of Information film "Coastal Command" that was released after his early death from wounds suffered during air operations over Norway in 1942.
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The Red Baron (2008 film) The Red Baron (aka Der rote Baron (original title)) is a 2008 German-British biographical action war film written and directed by Nikolai Müllerschön about the World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron". The film stars Matthias Schweighöfer, Joseph Fiennes, Til Schweiger and Lena Headey. "The Red Baron" was filmed entirely in English to improve its international commercial viability.
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No. 681 Squadron RAF No. 681 Squadron RAF was a photo-reconnaissance squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
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Clare Stevenson Clare Grant Stevenson, AM, MBE (18 July 1903 – 22 October 1988) was the inaugural Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF), from May 1941 to March 1946. As such, she was described in 2001 as "the most significant woman in the history of the Air Force". Formed as a branch of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in March 1941, the WAAAF was the first and largest uniformed women's service in Australia during World War II, numbering more than 18,000 members by late 1944 and making up over thirty per cent of RAAF ground staff.
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RAF Goldsborough Royal Air Force Goldsborough or more simply RAF Goldsborough is a former Royal Air Force station located in North Yorkshire, England.
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Norman Williams (RAAF officer) Norman Francis Williams, (3 November 1914 – 30 June 2007) served as an air gunner in Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) bombers in the Second World War, becoming its most highly decorated non-commissioned officer. A rear gunner in a Halifax bomber, he was credited with shooting down 8 German aircraft and damaging several others, making him the RAAF's only "ace" who was not a fighter pilot.
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Thomas Shirley (RAF officer) Air Vice Marshal Sir Thomas Ulric Curzon Shirley, (4 June 1908 – 16 January 1982) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Signals Command from 1964 until 1966.
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Cathcart Wight-Boycott Air Commodore Cathcart Michael Wight-Boycott CBE DSO and bar MA, RAF R’td (18 August 1910 – December 1998) was a British fighter pilot during the Second World War and a senior Royal Air Force officer during the post-war years. As an air commodore in 1961, Wight-Boycott became the 10th Commandant Royal Observer Corps.
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Frank Reginald Carey Frank Reginald "Chota" Carey, (7 May 1912 – 6 December 2004) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace who served during World War II.