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Train Busters

Sydney Newman

1944 13 min

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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.

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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.

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War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films

History - Canada - 1920-1945

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Credits

• director
  Sydney Newman
  
• producer
  Raymond Spottiswoode
  
• narrator
  Lorne Greene
  
• music
  Lucio Agostini
  

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