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Reach for the Sky

As a young man, Douglas Bader is adventurous and passionately devoted to flying, but his promising career is tragically interrupted in December 1931, when a serious air accident necessitates the amputation of both his legs. Determined to live a normal life, Bader learns to walk again on artificial limbs and proves his independence by flying at the Central Flying School, but suffers a temporary setback when he is grounded because regulations do not provide for a man without legs. A monotonous civilian job is terminated by the war and Bader finds himself wanted again. His skill and powers of leadership are fully utilised in the Battle of Britain, during which he leads five squadrons of aircraft. An accident forces him to bale out however, and he is taken prisoner. Numerous attempts at escape so enrage the Germans that, as a final resort, he is sent to Colditz. His desire for a "last fling" at the enemy is thwarted by the end of the European war, but a moment of triumph comes in September 1945, when the victory air parade over London is led, in a Battle of Britain Spitfire, by Wing Commander Douglas Bader, D.S.O., D.F.C. The whole story is so famously captured in Reach For The Sky starring Kenneth More.

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