Summary: "Walls of Steel: How Britain's anti-aircraft guns defeated the Flying Bomb."
Description: Scenes of devastation in London in 1944, then a view of a captured Flying Bomb site hidden in a wood, precede film of an anti-aircraft battery (C-in-C Anti-Aircraft Command General Sir F Pile) on the South Coast in action against the V1s. Men and women (volunteers) scramble and open fire at a V1, clearly visible as it passes overhead. Bursts of flak spot the sky before a hit is scored and the Flying Bomb explodes. Several similar sequences, including a long pan following a V1 until it explodes on or near a camp and a fighter scoring a direct hit in mid-air, lead up to a statistical summary: 8000 V1s fired, 1560 brought down by guns, 1900 by planes and 279 by balloons. It is admitted that many people were killed by the 2300 which got through but "it could have been worse". Titles expressing gratitude to the Anti-Aircraft, Fighter and Balloon Commands end this report. [Distinctive sound of V1 is not recorded.]
