The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
On Tuesday March 15th Bomber Command sprung its newest suprise on Germany, the 22,000 lb bomb. This bomb is carried in Lancasters specially modified for the purpose and it was these aircraft of 617 Squadron RAF which carried out the attack on the viaduct at Bielefeld, a city with a population of 40,000 60 miles North East of Dortmund. This viaduct carried one of the last remaining two-track railways connecting the Ruhr with the rest of Germany. The film shows the assembly of the bomb and transport to and mounting the bomb on the Lancasters. The take off and flight to the target are shown including a shot of a Lancaster from below showing the bomb semi recessed in the bomb bay. The start of the attack is shown with the first bombs, 12,000 pounders scoring direct hits and near misses. Then there is a tremendous explosion throwing up a column of earth and smoke like a great inverted mountain. The final part of the film shows aerial and ground level shots of the great gap smashed in the spans of the viaduct. See also F02582. See also photographs SUK14014 & SUK14015.
RAF Bomber Command Operational Film No 268 of raid by Lancaster bombers on the railway viaduct at Bielefeld, Germany (possibly the strike by 617 Squadron RAF on 22 February 1945). Opening scene of an
RAF Bomber Command operational film of daylight attack by 5 Group on the airfield and signals depot at St Cyr, France. Shows air to air shots of Lancasters heading for target. The target area covered
Lancaster Squadrons Nos 9 RAF and 617 RAF of No. 5 Group Bomber Command attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in Kaa Fiord Norway from the Russian base Yagonik near Archangel. Accompanying the bomber
RAF Bomber Command Operation film of the night raid on Pfzorheim, Germany by Lancasters and Mosquitoes of 1, 6 and 8 Groups. This raid was the first area bombing carried out on Pforzheim and resulted
A Ministry of Information film on bomb damage assessment. High altitude photographic interpretation using stereoscophy. Explaination of the work of photograph interpreters. Film uses examples of RAF B
RAF Bomber Command Operational Film of daylight raid by Lancaster aircraft on the German held island of Walcheren, Netherlands. One of seventeen raids on Walcheren carried out by Bomber Command in sup
