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Train Busters

Train Busters

| 13 min

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.


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

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