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Summary: A mainly humorous attempt to drive home the importance of the blackout.
Description: Mr Proudfoot, a man given to tall stories of near misses from bombs and to teasing his local warden, is insufficiently careful with his blackout one night, and so provides the crew of a lost German bomber with a clue to their position. They reward Mr P with a bomb and fly on to their main target. On their return they are shot down: at interrogation the pilot tells how the light had guided them (but he is told that his bombs had missed their main target and hit a hospital) - meanwhile, Mr P, his head in bandages, proudly relates his latest 'near miss'. [Film includes faked scenes of a Luftwaffe base and inside a plane - also some newsreel footage of 'dogfight' and shot down plane].