Train Busters (1944)
13m
Running Time
March 14, 1944Release Date
Plot.
This short film depicts the strength and resources of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 32 overseas squadrons. It includes footage that explains the Allied air strategy of hitting the German army's nerve centres and features Canadian airplanes destroying a German munitions train.
Where to Watch.
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Details.
Wiki.
Train Busters (aka R.C.A.F. Train-Busters; its alternate French language version was known as La guerre des airs) is a 13-minute 1943 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sydney Newman. The film was made by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Overseas Film Unit and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the NFB's Canada Carries On series. Train Busters depicts the Allied night bombing campaign over German-occupied Europe that was complemented by close air support missions flown by the RCAF targeting enemy trains.