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TAILWIND
THURSDAY 26 MARCH
6PM
STUDIO CINEMA
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£6 / £5.50
BOOK ONLINE
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In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, there were three airfields in Northern Ireland. Inside two years, there were 26. Acclaimed auteur John T. Davis turns from Americana to the second passion of his life, wartime aircraft, in this untold tale of World War II in Northern Ireland.
Tailwind is the story of Northern Ireland’s role in the air war, when tens of thousands of pilots and aircrew from every Allied nation came to prepare themselves, and their aircraft, for frontline action; and to participate in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Tailwind tells the story through a range of people now in their 80's and 90's who were involved - aircrew, WAAF's and civilians, from Ireland, America, Poland and New Zealand. Davis tracked down pilots in the United States who’d been based in Ireland and Ulster ‘war brides’ - girls who had married American airmen and returned to the States with them. Davis dedicates the film to his late parents, George and Kay. George was one of those the war brought from England to Ireland, where he fell in love with an Ulster girl.
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Ireland / 2008 / 84mins
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