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World War 2 Allied Aviation News
Volume 3 British & Commonwealth Air
Forces 1942-1945
See
the RAF & Allied services in the air and behind the scenes in these exciting and
informative films, all produced during World War 2.
RAF
Air Front (B&W, 65:00 Restored footage) This series of RAF
films documents literally dozens of missions flown by RAF 2nd
Tactical Air Force and Bomber Command over Northern Europe and
Germany from the Spring of 1944 through the last days of the War in
May, 1945. In fact, there are so many missions that space doesn't
nearly permit listing them all here. Suffice it to say that there
is more non stop air action in an hour plus of film than we have ever
seen before in one place. No talking heads – just planes, bullets
& bombs supplemented by maps showing mission targets. There are
amazing attack sequences often shot right down on the deck by brave
combat cameramen. And, unlike many films of this period, individual
units, dates & specific targets are often identified Just
a few of the many highlights: Hawker Typhoon & Tempest
fighter/bombers fly “Mandolin” ops attacking tanks, rail
complexes, vehicles & targets of opportunity with canon, rocket
and bombs, including crucial support for the D-Day invasion;
Mosquitoes conduct daring low level precision attacks on high value
targets like Gestapo headquarters and high ranking officer billets in
chateau, Bristol Beaufighters and Mosquitoes pouncing on enemy
shipping along the coast of occupied Europe with torpedo, rockets &
bombs, A-20 Boston attack bombers on tree top skimming “Rhubarb”
& 'Ramrod” missions over the Low Countries, RAF B-25 Mitchells
on 'Circus” missions hitting factories, munitions dumps,
refineries, troop concentrations in fast moving low & medium
bombing attacks, heavy Lancaster hitting hard targets like concrete
U-Boat pens and coastal fortification by day and night missions into
Germany against cities like Brunswick and Konigsburg where incendiary
bombs quickly spread fires that literally light up the street grid
like a road map – simultaneously fascinating and horrific. Late in
the war, you'll see Lancaster's drop massive 22,000 llb bombs on
fortified port entrances and critical briges & viaducts, knocking
them out with one blow, and just days before the end of the war,
Lancasters attack on Hitlers “Eagle's Nest” lair at
Berchtesgaden, shown as it happened.
The
Gen R.A.F. News Magazine, distributed exclusively inside the service Highlights
from issues 1-10, 1942-1945 (B&W, 65:00, Restored footage) The
RAF modifies North American Mustangs intruders for ground attack;
Polish air crew take along their mascot “Spot” on night bombing
missions, Gibraltar serves as both a strategic airbase and field
assembly point for crated aircraft to be distributed around the Med,
Allied bombers, including RAF Bostons & Mitchells, bomb the
island fortress of Pantelleria into
surrender; Hurricane 2D “Tank Busters', armed with two 40mm canon, support the 8th Army in North Africa; the French aircraft
carrier Berne, joins the French Navy in the North Atlantic, RAF
Bostons attack steel & armament factories near Dinan, FR in a low
level raid, the history & retirement of Coastal Command Lockheed
Hudson Bombers, the Free French Lorraine Squadron Bostons in low
level raids over their home country, the “Independent Air Force,
the first de Havaland Mosquito intruder squadron, choose their own
targets, B-26 Marauders hit high priority targets as part of the
preparation for D-Day, Blimps patrol the Atlantic, hunting U-Boats,
first look at the Australian designed & built “Boomerang”
fighter, Transport Command ferries all kinds of fighters &
bombers (great pics!) all over the World, “Wooden Wonder' Mosquito
fighter-bombers are built in Canada, French Spitfire pilots fly
missions over France, RAAF pilot “Guns” has a special good luck
charm in his Mustang, German V-1 “Buzz Bomb” missiles are
described & shot down by RAF fighters & AAA, First look at
the still secret Hawker Tempest fighter/bomber, “the finest piece
of machinery to take the air to date, scourge of V-1 missiles, the RAF
supports the invasion of Normandy, Group captain Picard, featured in
the Classic “Target for Tonight,” sacrifices his life leading a
Mosquito squadron in a precision attack on the Amiens jail, freeing
hundreds of French prisoners, filmed as it happened, RAF
“Hurri-Bombers attack both deadly mosquitoes & the Japanese in
the Burmese jungle, the RAF supports the Arnhem air drops in
Operation Market Garden ion Holland; RAF B-24 Liberators bomb
Japanese targets in Burma, “The Battle of New Years Day” RAF
fighters & bombers help defeat the surprise German offensive in
the Battle of the Bulge (dramatic gun camera film and many more
stories
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