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Re: follow-up to George Preddy 6 victories footage.
The Preddy fly-by, landing etc., was a reenactment on Aug. 7. The gun camera footage immediately following are Preddy's 6 vics. British Pathe has copyrighted this footage, but all the pictures and movie footage taken by US personnel are public domain and they cannot Copyright it unlike photographic items taken by the British government. So, British Pathe, under international copyright law cannot copyright the USAAF films.
The reason for the reenactment is that George was actually a bit hung over from a party the night before, became sick during the mission, and threw up in the cockpit. This is not what you need to film for news and propaganda, so they re-did it on August 7th.
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