R.A.F. Blasts Nazis With Day And Night Bombing

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Synopsis: R.A.F. flyers in Lancaster Bombers wage a daylight bombing and night bombing campaign against military targets in Nazi-occupied France and Nazi Germany using conventional 1,000 pound bombs and incendiary bombs...(read more)

Date: 1942
Duration: 00:03:16
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: England, France, Germany

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R.A.F. Blasts Nazis With Day And Night Bombing

Wings over England - but these are the wings of the R.A.F. American-built bombers, outward bound for daylight raids upon the continent. Raids to repay the Nazis ten-fold for their wanton attacks upon defenseless cities. Crossing the channel, low-flying makes it harder for enemy observers and sound detectors to spot them. Roaring in over the beaches, movie camera planted squarely in the nose of a bomber for a ring-side seat in an actual raid upon Nazi-occupied France. Only complete mastery of the air, makes possible these daring daylight forays. Interested in only military objectives, they wing on to a chemical plant making Nazi munitions and the bombardiers lay their deadly eggs. Over channel ports now; blasting docks and installations with 1,000 pound bombs - and the camera records the damage.

Back at a base in England, night raiders get their orders. They climb into fur-lined clothing; this time, the goal is Nazi Germany. The schedule of attack - 24 hour-a-day bombings around the clock. They carry feathered passengers, a homing pigeon for every bomber, to be released only if a ship gets into trouble. Sundown, the zero hour, powerful squadrons of thirty-ton Lancasters are ready. Americans are among the crews, going with veterans of the R.A.F. At dozens of widely scattered Airdromes, blinker lights flash the signal for take-off. And one by one, with spit second timing, a thousand bombers roar down the runways; bound for the industrial cities of the German Reich. Barely visible through the haze, flying high above night clouds, they speed upon their deadly mission. Now, over the blacked-out objective, parachute flares light up the target amid a hail of anti-aircraft fire. Fires started by incendiaries, flame like beacons - the city is ablaze.