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"Gordon" wrote in message
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Engine noise on aircraft has always been a problem, specifically on combat
(non-passenger) types. On some aircraft, you can tell which position a
person
is sitting at by how much engine noise bleeds over to the ICS. Even
something
as small as a B-25 has noticeable engine noise and high freq tones
bleeding
over when you key the ICS, so I really can't see how a crew aboard a Lanc
could
use their normal speaking voices and be heard. As for the technology of
noise-canceling microphones in 1943, I think its implausible that a Lanc
would
be fitted with a system equipped with such microphones for every member of
the
crew - I agree with the guys who feel this is a studio-done, or
studio-cleaned-up, product.

If crew members had to yell over the mics to be heard, then it could not
have been a cleaned up recording. The speakers are not yelling. You could
filter out the engine sound, but a yelling voice is clearly noticible and no
filtration could make it sound like those voices, they were not yelling. If
you accept the premise that Lancaster crew members had to yell to be heard
over the intercom, it must have been a reenacted scene.

I don't doubt that the dialogue came primarily
from a Lanc crew, but its too clean! Think of what its like in a WWII
bomber -
you can barely hear yourself think. The drone of those Merlins would be
present on the recordings no matter what measures were taken to screen
them out
- it would be like recording a dialogue aboard the "Maid of the Mist", and
somehow screening out the sounds of Niagra Falls, a few feet away. How
likely
is that? My hunch is that the BBC guys did fly along on the mission, did
record it, and brought it back and (at a minimum) cleaned it up before
broadcast.
Next, I'd like to hear a recording of the Reichsjägerweile - the "running
commentary" radio broadcasts that occurred over Northern Europe during
massive
Allied raids. Once the EW stations were overwhelmed, the Lulftwaffe
ground
controllers switched to this commentary to tell units where and how the
battle
raged - "Many trucks over Dortmund, heading Southward at 7,000 meters; at
fifteen after the hour, Christmas trees and duppel were dropped over
Hanover
for what appears to be a feint attack. All aircraft in sector FA are
ordered
to land for refueling and await further orders. Pfadfinder reported
dropping
flares on Osnabruck in advance of a strong raid..." etc. Hour after hour
of
the details of a strike, from the enemy perspective. I think it would be
highly interesting to hear, but as far as I know, there are no recordings
available...?

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR Aircrew

"Got anything on your radar, SENSO?"
"Nothing but my forehead, sir."
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