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The 15 one-hour-long episodes of the documentary television series ''Clash of Wings'' originally aired in 1998 on the Discovery Channel as one of the initial shows of the Discovery Network's 1999 launch of the Military Channel. Aired as a knock-off of the international best-selling ''Clash of Wings'' (1994) reference book by air historian Walter J. Boyne, the programs were produced in 1998 and aired the next year appearing as some of the initial original content in the launch of the new Discovery Wings cable channel (before its name change in 2005 to the Military Channel). The programs were hosted and partially narrated by Boyne, written by Boyne (also credited as associate producer) together with director-producer John Honey, and presented by executive producer Phillip Osborn. The effort adapted his encyclopedic work of the same name. Like many World War II documentaries involving aircraft, the displayed content utilizes many scenes from gun camera footage and other military films now in the public domain. The series frequently also closely followed and interspersed color film of surviving combat aircraft types from multiple camera angles and in a variety of operations modes. Unlike many documentaries about the era, the series makes no effort to present on-camera interviews, instead focusing on an overarching narrative telling the historic story appropriate to that episode's specific title. Boyne is not the sole narrator, but utilizes other voices to describe details while Boyne appears to sum up and tie together segments as host. Walter J. Boyne's credentials are impressive, and his works are frequently cited by others in bibliographies involving the history of air power and aircraft. Born in 1929, he is a retired United States Air Force officer, combat veteran, aviation historian, and author of more than 50 books and over 1,000 magazine articles. Too young for World War II, his military service spanned the Korean War, service with the strategic bomber forces of the deep cold war, and the Vietnam War. He is a former director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and is currently Chairman of the National Aeronautic Association. The television series, like his book, is comprehensive and well organized by theater and timeline of the war he experienced personally as a teenager during his formative years. ==Series scope== The first air attack of the Second World War officially commenced at 04:34 hours on September 1, 1939, when three Luftwaffe Ju-87 Stukas attacked railway bridges in Poland. The air war effectively ended at 10:58 hours on August 9, 1945, when a solitary B-29 Superfortress over the Japanese city of Nagasaki dropped the second atomic bomb. The Stukas carried 250 kg bombs: the A-bomb dropped by the B-29 was equivalent to 23,000 tons of TNT and couldn't have been lifted by any plane besides the B-29s. In just six years of warfare, air power had changed and grown in destruction capability almost beyond recognition. Based on the international bestselling book by Walter Boyne, director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, the ''Clash off Wings'' series is the definitive film history of aerial warfare during World War Two. Immensely detailed the series uses authentic film footage from archives around the world. The series covers the air war in every theatre from 1939 to 1945. From the earliest blitzkriegs against Poland to the pounding of mainland Imperial Japan, from the jungles and mountains of India and Burma in the fighting to support invaded China over the infamous terrain of the Hump in the lofty Himalayas in the Southeast Asia Campaigns. Covering topics as diverse as the Battle of Britain and the Blitz to the eventual massive allied bomber raids into the heart of Nazi Germany — as air superiority was lost by Germany and then won by the allies — and from the great aircraft carrier duels in the Pacific to the bitter air battles over the Soviet Union, ''Clash of Wings'' details the great air battles and the role of air power in the Second World War as no other series. The films also feature rarely seen aerial combat footage by all the major combat aircraft types from the World War II period, as well as high-resolution footage of surviving aircraft of each type. Presented by Walter Boyne (author of ''Clash of Wings'') Executive producer: Philip Osborn; Director and producer: John Honey; the production of Networks USA & Llanischen Films LLC (1998). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clash of Wings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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