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Fighter Wing

Don Haldane

1956 30 min

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In this short documentary, Fred Davis introduces us to Canadian Air Force operations in Zweibrucken, West Germany. Follow Green Section as they perform drills and explain what it takes to be a fighter pilot. Part of the Perspective series.

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  Perspective

  1955 46 films

  This TV series from the mid-1950s blended documentary and fiction to tell Canadian stories from a Canadian perspective.

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In this short documentary, Fred Davis introduces us to Canadian Air Force operations in Zweibrucken, West Germany. Follow Green Section as they perform drills and explain what it takes to be a fighter pilot.

Part of the Perspective series.

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National Security and Defence

Foreign Countries

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Credits

• director
  Don Haldane
  
• producer
  Julian Biggs
  
• script
  William Weintraub
  
• photography
  Eugene Boyko
  
• sound
  John Locke
  
• editing
  Tony Lower
  
• host
  Fred Davis
  

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