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Description: The reel contains several clips showing studio models - a burning Ju 88 crashing into the sea, dockyard buildings in flames, and a U-boat making a night attack on a convoy, which responds with snowflake and flares. Film sequences include (1) LS as aircraft, generating a smoke screen, flies over tree tops. (2) MLS profile as Blackburn Shark comes in to land at an airfield. Skua and another Shark are standing parked. MCU of towing attachment on fuselage behind cockpit. Aerial MS of Shark in flight. (3) Swordfish taking off and landing on an Illustrious Class carrier. Aerial shot from a Swordfish as it passes over F Class destroyer, HMS Foresight (H.68), and banks to make a low level run down the starboard side of line of capital ships - HMS Royal Sovereign and a Queen Elizabeth Class battleship, followed by HMS Ark Royal. (4) Westland Lysander goes over Percival Proctor prepared for take off. Aerial HA.MS of Proctor in flight and MCU of cockpit section of parked aircraft. (5) Profile MS of steam gunboat S.308 (HMS Grey Wolf) passing close to shore.