It all started, as so many good things do, over lunch. During 1966, senior representatives of the Rank and Paramount film companies invited the Secretary of State for Defence and members of the Air Force Board to a presentation of their new project: a film about the Battle of Britain. Suitably fed and watered, the Secretary of State, Denis Healey, got up to make an informal speech. Official correspondence from the time says he "welcomed the proposal and offered all reasonable assistance". This support was invaluable in creating a cinematic epic that has, of course, gone down in the annals of historic aviation.
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