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Do not read further until you have viewed the movie "Faith, Hope, and Charity" Plot details or story-detractors may be revealed below.


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Thanks Peppy for your compliments!

As for your comments/questions, I recommend that you visit our FH&C Website http://www.wingmenproductions.com/content/index.html for much detail on the making of the movie and the true history of the battle of Malta.

Additionally, for the most detailed records of the exact Gladiators which were at Malta at different times and a record of every single sortie flown, by serial number and pilot name and results, go to this marvelously encyclopedic accounting: http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/malta.htm You will see immediately that the actual facts are quite complex and in order to Tell the Story in a short film, it was necessary to exercise considerable dramatic license. You'll see, for example, that the events of 21 June would be too difficult to show and explain, and would certainly detract from the main 'story'/Plot line.

Suffice it to say that on the day of the War's outbreak, there were only six Gladiators at Malta (and only seven pilots), but it is factual that only three Gladiators were operational and available to fly at the Hal Far airfield near the capital city of Valetta...one other was in reserve, not to be flown, and two others were deployed elsewhere in the Islands. These three specific aircraft which ultimately became known as Faith, Hope, and Charity were, in fact, the only aircraft which flew on the first day, and on no single day during the summer of 1940 time were more than three Gladiators ever flown into combat.

In "Faith, Hope, and Charity", the comment is made in the early moments of the introduction that "at no time during the summer of 1940 were more than three gladiators ever available to be launched on a scramble or sortie..." It is not said that there were only, physically, three aircraft total at Malta (Malta actually has several islands and several airfields).
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The "Montage" scene in FH&C, to which you referred, was a major accomplishment by one of our Directors and took many months to create. From its beginning at 17:10 through completion at 23:30, it is actually a movie in and of itself, comparable and exceeding many IL2 movies of that duration created in years past. I will ask that the Director post here for you some of the applications and techniques he used. I'm not technical...I'm just the Screenplay writer, story-teller.