Title:RAF SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE ATTACK ON GERMAN AIRCRAFT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:OPE 90
Other titles:SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN EUROPE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Day attack by a Hawker Tempest fighter-bomber of RAF 56 Squadron on two German Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft, the first over Leese and the second over Hanover (Hannover), Germany. Filmed by on board cameras. Camera plane piloted by Squadron Leader R W A MacKichan DFC & Bar.
Description:
Alternative Title:SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN EUROPE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Royal Air Force (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, 2nd Tactical Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany (geography)
Leese, Lower Saxony, Germany (geography)
Allied Air Offensive 1942-1945, Germany, Second World War (event)
Allied Air Offensive 1942-1945, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Allied Air Offensive, Germany, Second World War (event)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945, Bomber Command (theme)
Aerial Warfare (theme)
Military Aviation (theme)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945, Fighter Command (theme)
