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Target for Tonight is a 1941 documentary film billed as being filmed by and acted by the Royal Air Force, all while under fire. It was directed by Harry Watt. The film revolves for the most part around one crew in a single Wellington aircraft. The film went on to win an honorary Academy Award in 1942, and 'Best Documentary' by the National Board of Review in 1941. The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Minister of Information is a British government position that was created briefly during the First World War and again during the Second World War. ...
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The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs Chief Designer, R.K. Pierson. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
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Sypnosis
Before the film, several text cards concerning bombers and the Royal Air Force chain of command are explained. The film begins with an observation aircraft flying over and dropping a box of undeveloped film. Bomber Command develops the film and analyzes the resulting photographs, which are presented for the audience to see. There has been a massive build-up by German forces in the subject area for the past few months. The film shows the planning of the mission, even detailing how the bomber wing chooses munitions for the area. The weather forecast is expected to be good, and the pilots are briefed. The crew of "'F' for Freddie", the bomber that is the focal point of the film, suits up and takes off. While over Germany, the crew bombs the target, dead on for one bomb, but is hit by flak from 'faceless' anti-aircraft gunners. The radio operator is hit in the leg. Freddie is the last aircraft to return. There is mist covering the water, prompting worry at the command. Meanwhile, Freddie cannot climb after the flak hit. They are not losing altitude, but are in a bad situation. Tension builds in the film until finally, 'F for Freddie' lands. No aircraft are lost and the mission is a complete success. Reconnaissance is the military term for the active gathering information about an enemy, or other conditions, by physical observation. ...
Bomber Command badge RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAFs bomber forces. ...
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Production The film was shot at RAF Mildenhall and at the real RAF Bomber Command headquarters in High Wycombe with the then-current head of Bomber Command Sir Richard Peirse appearing in the film. Squadron Leader Dickson, the captain of 'F for Freddie', was played by Percy Pickard, who went on to lead the real-life Operation Biting and the later Operation Jericho raid on Amiens Prison. Although the film was about a bomber squadron flying Wellingtons the aircraft shown on the movie poster are actually Boulton Paul Defiant fighters. RAF Mildenhall is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England. ...
High Wycombe in the UK High Wycombe, (previously Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe as late as 1911[1]) South Buckinghamshire, is 29 miles (46. ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse KCB DSO AFC RAF (30 September 1892 - 5 August 1970), was a senior Royal Air Force commander. ...
A Squadron Leaders sleeve/shoulder insignia Squadron Leader is a commissioned rank in some air forces. ...
Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard DSO, DFC, was the Royal Air Force pilot who led the February 1944 low-level attack on the Amiens Prison, in the raid known as Operation Jericho. ...
RAF photo-reconnaissance picture of the Bruneval Wuerzburg (the dish-shaped object in the left-foreground) The Bruneval Wuerzburg from another angle, showing the equipment in profile During World War II, Operation Biting was a Combined Operations raid to capture components of a German Wuerzburg radar set at Bruneval, France...
Amiens Prison during the raid Operation Jericho was a low-level attack on Amiens Prison in Nazi-occupied France undertaken by 19 Mosquito Mk. ...
The cathedral in Amiens Location within France Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ...
A pair of 264 Squadron Defiants. ...
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