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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...target of the title is a newly sprung-up clump of naval stores (oil, barges, etc.) spied out by reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant- | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

Sponsored by the Student Defense League, the first meeting of the Red Cross course on First Aid for the men who have been taking the Air Raid Warden instruction, will take place at Phillips Brooks House tonight at 7:30 o'clock. This section will consist of men whose names begin with letters from A through L, while a section will be held tomorrow night for these from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross Opens First Aid Course at P.B.H. Tonight | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

...about a job that is good, but certainly not tops, as the U.S. figures technical performance. Last week "Bull" Wesson was just back from a visit to London to see what Britain was doing in his line of business. (Said he to a pretty girl abed in an air-raid shelter: "Really I ought to kiss a girl like you good night-but I'm a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Good Old Ordnance | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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