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The Kid Who Couldn't Miss (1983)

Directed by Paul Cowan

Year
1983
Countries
Canada
Companies
National Film Board of Canada

About the film

The Kid Who Couldn't Miss is a 1983 docudrama film directed by Paul Cowan. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, it combines fact and fiction to question fighter pilot Billy Bishop's accomplishments during World War I, featuring excerpts from John MacLachlan Gray's play Billy Bishop Goes to War. The film specifically questions accounts of Bishop's solo mission to attack a German aerodrome on June 2, 1917, for which he was awarded a Victoria Cross, and suggests the event was imaginary and that Bishop exaggerated his own accomplishments.

From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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