RAF Bostons Make High Speed Low Level Attacks on Occupied France - 1943

RAF Douglas Boston Attack Bombers conduct tree top level missions to Valenciennes, Abbeville & Rennes in occupied France. Targets included German military units, logistics & war production plants. These raids were "on the deck" to avoid radar detection & FLAK. The "Boston" was the export version of the American Douglas A-20 Havoc supplied to the U.K.
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[@jon9021]

Blimey, that really was rooftop!

[@arthurcrime]

Those aero engines sound like howling beasts.

[@dooshee2]

My father was on the Abbeville mission flying with 342 'Lorraine' Sqn. of the FFAL, after the war he went back to France to see his Father who he hadn't seen since the the war began, his Father asked him if he had ever bombed Abbeville on a certain date, looking at his log book my Dad said 'yes he had' at which point my Grandfather said he had been on the Railway Station at the time, some of the bombs fell near the marshalling yards in Abbeville and he had to run for cover, as he did so he he looked up to see some of the aircraft had the 'cross of Lorraine' emblazoned on them so he knew he may have been being bombed by his son!

[@davidhoffman6980]

The sound engineer who dubbed the "generic airplane sound" over this film in 1943 used the sound of a a plane flying away from whoever recorded it. You can hear the Doppler effect in the footage taken from inside the plane. You can also hear how it's looped.

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

6 aircraft lost? There might be something to that whole meme about ,"the cameraman Never Dies?"

[@gr8witenorth61]

this is for you dad................