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Best Single Drama | 1990 | Michael
Best Video Lighting | 1990
Best Sound Supervisor | 1990
Sir Arthur Harris learned area bombing as a squadron leader in Iraq in the early 1920s when the country was under British occupation. He helped devise heavy bombing and night terror bombing raids on civilians in 1923.
The programme was heavily criticized for ignoring the fact that Britain bombed Germany first in 1939. By the time the London Blitz began on 7th September 1940 the Royal Air Force (RAF) had already bombed German cities every night for four months. The first RAF raid on Germany was on the night of 3rd September 1939 at the harbour of Wilhelmshaven.
It was only near the end of the war, and the bombing of Dresden which killed approximately 25,000 people in a few hours, that there was any kind of outcry against Allied strategy, which in any case had completely failed to stem Germany's production of armaments (there was a three-fold increase between 1941 and 1944). Yet after the war the British Bombing Survey Unit's assessment was positively damning and criticized almost "all phases of Bomber Command's activities except the final phase against oil and communications targets [in Germany]."
THE RAF attack on Wilhelmshaven on 3rd September 1939 was against German warships moored outside the harbour not against the city, the crews were not allowed to bomb the docks in case civilians were killed or injured. Please check your facts. RAF raids over Germany until May 1940 dropped leaflets not bombs, attacks were only approved after the invasion of France and the Low Countries on 10th May 1940.
Robert Hardy, who plays Winston Churchill, had previously earned a BAFTA nomination for the same role in "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)."
"[last lines] Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris: War. The only thing that matters is you win. You bloody well *win*! And then to hell with it."
"[responding to criticism over the destruction of Dresden, Germany] Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris: We've been accused of murder. What would we have been accused of had we let Hitler and *his* bloody gang win the bloody war? As for Dresden, it's simple, any psychiatrist can explain it: it's all to do with German brass bands and Dresden shepherdesses! All I can say is that all the German towns *put together* aren't worth the bones of a British grenadier!"
