Helicopters???

Actually the US Navy used a few helicopters near the end of WWII for air-sea rescue. However they were not in general service until the Korean Conflict.

I don't know of any such British picture, but I do know the American film "A Guy Named Joe" (1943) showed Spencer Tracy sinking a German aircraft carrier during WWII. The Germans were building an aircraft carrier but never completed it. The other goof in the film was that Tracy's character was flying a B-25 bomber but had no crew. There was no way he could have dropped any bombs by himself and no way he would have been able to take off alone without a co-pilot, navigator, bombardier, radioman, gunners, etc.

The German Kriegsmarine DID have an AC Carrier in existence Altho73. It was christianed the KMS ZEPELLIN, which was still in the shipyard at Wilmshaven in the construction stage and designed to accomodate the Stuka Junkers Ju-87D dive-bomber (and as a part-time torpedo attack aircraft as well) and the Me 109 fighter plane.It was never completed from the landing deck up. Re the movie: the helo was just thrown in as a curiosity, as the Germans were playing with all sorts of technology. It was pretty much a postwar, early American-made Bell 47G modified with a glazed canopy typical of German design and painted in respective colours and markings. This helo itself was one of the first pre-1950 helicopters, so the director/producer felt they could slide with this scene. PLUS upon landing on the Schloss-Adler, the officer in charge asks the top commander who just stepped off the machine, "How do you like your new TOY, Mayor?" or something to that extend...yes, helicopters were in the experimental stage in all countries involved during 1944.

I'm sorry, but I'm not wrong wrong wrong and wrong! (are you twelve?)

My statement was that they were experimental and not in "general service", in my world general service means squadron service, normal front line aircraft and helicopters did not achieve this until after the war. I never said the US and Germany didn't have any.

The US had one model that was used for rescue operations in 1944 but in very limited numbers.

Germany did not have two operational helicopters in WW two, they had two models that were flying, one actually went into production (FA223) but only twenty were produced and it was never really used in service, ie; there was no group/squadren operating them. The other was a gyro type of aircraft used by the navy and was not much more than a towed kite.

So, I may have been wrong that the US did not have an operating helicoptor but it was not in "general service" by the end of the war and certainly not by 1944, it was used in very limited rescue ops off the US. I never said there were none flying, again, I said, not in general service.

And Germany had two aircraft in very limited numbers that were not practical and again; WERE NOT OPERATED IN GENERAL SERVICE. If you disgree find me the squadron designations for the Luftwaffe helicoptor squadrons that were operating during the war.

I saw the film for the first time in about 30 years over the weekend and when the German general arrived in the copter, I was sputtering and yelling like many other folks probably have. But some research showed the German did have experimental models, so it's plausible certain officers may have tried them out for fairly short trips. I also think we viewers were supposed to realize that copters weren't a normal occurrence at the time: Early in their initial conversation, the general says something to the commandant like, "How do you like my machine, eh?" like it's out of the ordinary. Also later in the film, the SS guy walks by it, and makes a point of staring at it (I think he even looks back at it before entering the castle).

I actually had the same thought as you at first, but it turns out that the German armed forces and other IMDb posters knew a whole lot more about helicopters than I do.