from one POW camp to another, finally ending up in Colditz Castle. He is liberated after four years of captivity. The war ends (much to Thelma's relief) before Bader can have "one last fling" in the Far East. On 15 September 1945, the fifth anniversary of the greatest day of the Battle of Britain, Bader, now a group captain, is given the honour of leading eleven other battle survivors and a total of 300 aircraft in a flypast over London. Cast Credited Kenneth More as Flight Cadet (later Group Captain) Douglas Bader Muriel Pavlow as Thelma Edwards (later Bader) Lyndon Brook as Flight Cadet (later Wing Commander) Johnny Sanderson Lee Patterson as Flying Officer (later Group Captain) Stan Turner Alexander Knox as Mr J. Leonard Joyce, surgeon at Royal Berkshire Hospital Dorothy Alison as Nurse Brace, Royal Berkshire Hospital Michael Warre as Flight Lieutenant (later Group Captain) Harry Day Sydney Tafler as Robert Desoutter, prosthetics expert Howard Marion-Crawford as Wing Commander (later Group Captain) Alfred "Woody" Woodhall Jack Watling as Peel Nigel Green as Streatfield Anne Leon as Sister Thornhill Charles Carson as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding Ronald Adam as Air Vice-Marshal (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Trafford Leigh-Mallory Walter Hudd as Air Vice-Marshal Frederick Halahan Basil Appleby as Flying Officer (later Air Marshal Sir) Denis Crowley-Milling Philip Stainton as Police Constable Eddie Byrne as Flight Sergeant Mills, RAF Cranwell instructor Beverley Brooks as Sally, Bader's girlfriend Michael Ripper as Warrant Officer West, 242 Squadron crew chief Derek Blomfield as Civilian Pilot at Reading Aero Club Avice Landone as Douglas Bader's Mother Eric Pohlmann as Adjutant at Prison Camp Michael Gough as Flying Officer W. J. "Pissy" Pearson, RAF Cranwell flying instructor Harry Locke as Bates, Bader's batman Sam Kydd as Warrant Officer Blake, Air Ministry medical clerk Uncredited Frank Atkinson as Tullin, Desoutter's assistant Balbina as Lucille Debacker, nurse at St Omer hospital Michael Balfour as Orderly Trevor Bannister as Man Listening to Radio Victor Beaumont as German Doctor at St Omer hospital Peter Burton as Peter, officer at RAF Coltishall Peter Byrne as Civilian Pilot at Reading Aero Club Paul Carpenter as Hall, 242 Squadron Hugh David as Flight Cadet Taylor, RAF Cranwell Stringer Davis as Cyril Borge Guy du Monceau as Gilbert Petit, French Resistance Anton Diffring as German Stabsfeldwebel in French Village Basil Dignam as Air Ministry Doctor Raymond Francis as Wing Commander Hargreaves