Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (1916-12-20)20 December 1916 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
23 April 1991(1991-04-23) (aged 74) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Notable works
The Great Escape The Dam Busters Reach for The Sky
Spouses
Margot Slater
(m. 1950; div. 1964)
Children
2
Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky.
Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote The Great Escape...
The Great Escape (1963), which was based on a book by former prisoner PaulBrickhill. The camp was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. The site of...
Langelaan, and The Great Escape (1963), based on the personal account of PaulBrickhill. He directed the popular 1967 film To Sir, with Love, for which he also...
recaptured escapees. It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by PaulBrickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book...
aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by PaulBrickhill. The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won...
the free dictionary. Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, 2010, s.v. Dogsbody definition Lackey definition Reach for the Sky, PaulBrickhill v t e...
1951 book by PaulBrickhill about Operation Chastise The Dam Busters (film), a 1955 film about Operation Chastise, based on PaulBrickhill's eponymous 1951...
210 The Great Escape by PaulBrickhill page 236 The Great Escape by PaulBrickhill page 240-243 The Great Escape by PaulBrickhill page 243 "Letter from...
Brickhill, Paul (1954). Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC. London: Odhams Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-55750-222-3. Brickhill, Paul (2004)...
Publishing. ISBN 978-1780964621.[permanent dead link] "Dam Busters, PaulBrickhill. "12000lb Tallboy Bomb". "What the Dambusters Did Next - YouTube". YouTube...
munitions factories. The film is based on the books The Dam Busters by PaulBrickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson. A number of B VII Lancasters in...
as the "Great Escape" The Great Escape (film), a 1963 film based on PaulBrickhill's 1950 book of the same name The Great Escape (American TV series), a...
to so few. Overy, Richard (2013). The Bombing War. Penguin. p. 322. PaulBrickhill, The Dambusters "Attack on Amiens Prison, 18th February 1944". RAF....
for the Sky, the biography of Douglas Bader by PaulBrickhill; and The Great Escape, also by Brickhill. He was the subject of the television programme...
North Sydney Intermediate High School, until 1929. RAF pilot and author PaulBrickhill was a school friend. After graduating, Finch went to work as a copy...
Müller (pilot) List of German World War II POW camps Per Bergsland Brickhill, Paul (2000). The Great Escape. London, UK: Cassell & Co. ISBN 0-304-35687-5...
October 19, 2015, Mutt telephones Walt Wallet with news regarding Jeff. PaulBrickhill (in The Dam Busters) referred to two test pilots as Mutt and Jeff. In...
introduction of multiple four-engine bomber projects. Aviation author PaulBrickhill notes of the decision: "It was a fair assumption that it might be disastrous...
He told Floody he was planning to make a film based on the book by PaulBrickhill, an Australian flyer and writer who, like Floody, had spent time at...
formed in 1978 in Hobart, Tasmania with PaulBrickhill on keyboards, guitar and vocals; Campbell Laird on drums; Paul Northam on guitar and vocals; and Mick...
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