North Queensferry Barrage Balloons – 16

The Forth Balloon Barrage on Film

 
The Imperial War Museum website holds parts 1 and 2 of the movie Squadron 992, the first being training in the basics of Barrage Balloon hardware at various UK sites. The second part shows deployment to sites and launching, mostly at South and North Queensferry to protect the bridge.

The film also shows a reconstruction of the The First Air Raid of WWII. The sequence comparing a hare being chased by dogs with the pursuit of a German bomber by Spitfires echoes the words of Stoep – one of the German bomber pilots – recalling the moment when Spitfires came within range and began their pursuit of his Ju88: “Ten to twelve Spitfires were after me. I resemble a hare, shot and wounded, but still chased.”