# "TARGET BERLIN" WWII ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE FILM 1942 R.A.F. BOMBER RAID ON GERMANY 22544

Made by famed Canadian documentary direct Grant McLean for Canada Carries On, the documentary Target Berlin shows the building of the first Lancaster bomber to be made in Canada. Then, the film takes us on a harrowing nighttime bombing raid over Berlin in Germany. The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber designed and built by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and, as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it became the main heavy bomber used by the RAF, the RCAF, and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within the RAF, overshadowing its close contemporaries the Handley Page Halifax and Short Stirling. The "Lanc", as it was affectionately known, thus became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, delivering 608,612 long tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties. At mark 0:46 , there is a phone call on the construction of a bomber plane. Yes we can build the bombers now, the materials are available, supply material running day and night from raw material sources to the assemblage ground. All that is needed now is the tools. At mark 01:50 , it can be seen the designs and the blue prints of the plane. At mark 02:14 , see the designers and engineers studying the blueprints of the plane. At mark 2:45 , there is need for tool makers to do the job of the plane construction and like 300 manpower is needed and…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/22544TargetBerlin)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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