Terror From The Skies (1942)

Titles read: “PATHE GAZETTE SPECIAL PRESENTATION - TERROR FROM THE SKIES - THE RAF HITS THE HUN BY DAY & NIGHT“. Somewhere in Britain. RAF men of a Boston Bombers Squadron gather on an airfield for an outdoor briefing. They make their way to their aircraft. Planes taxi and take off. Air to air shots with the Bostons as they make their way over English countryside and Channel at fairly low level. As we fly over the dock installations and U-boat base at St Malo we see good shots of sticks of bombs falling from the bombers and finding their targets. Good (though quite scratched) shots from a Boston Bomber as it flies at low level across French coast and countryside and eventually attacks chemical works at Lyons. At dusk we see bombs being loaded onto Lancaster Bombers. RAF pilots and crew chat in a hut before the raid. Carrier pigeons sit in boxes; one pokes his head out of his porthole. Shots in the diminishing light of airmen getting into their flying suits, having a last cigarette and m