Summary: Special edition subtitled "Your Ringside Seat".
Description: An American seated in an armchair and talking to the camera answers the question "What does the bombing of Germany accomplish?" Germany cannot be bombed into submission, he admits, but bombing can destroy her war plants, as indeed it already has done. As evidence he opens a book of RAF "before and after" stills of bomb damage on precise targets at Cologne and also at Wilhelmshaven. Without even referring to day or night bombing, he implies that effective and accurate bombing is a matter of course in Allied raids on Germany. This incomplete reel breaks off abruptly as the man states that the aircraft loss rate is 3 to 5 per cent.
Alternative Title:
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:RMY 180
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1943
Production Country: United States of America
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: destruction, German military - aimed: bomb (object name)
strategy, Allied: bombing of Germany (object name)
Germany & Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia (geography)
Germany & Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony (geography)
propaganda (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 571 ft; Running time: 6 mins
