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Originally Posted by RAY WALKLING
After a quick look at film on YouTube. First and second appearances of Sam Kydd, suggest to me that he is incorrected badged as a WO2 (should have been wearing shoulder eagles and gilt crown on sleeve) without surrounding wreath. Third appearance (War had broken out), he is badged, as far as I can make out as a WO1 (in theory, in view of the current events of the time this would have been par for the course)
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That is true. But although the film was made in 1956 they do get a wealth of other details correct. For example, there is a scene in the Mess pre-Bader losing his legs, and both he and 'Harry Day' have the correct pre-1931 Patten Mess Dress, with the correct blue waistcoat, shoulder ranks and no aircrew badges, that uniform having been obsolete for over a quarter of a century by that time. Its seems odd they would have badged another with rank that was never even used in the RAF.