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[RodM]

Re: 'Nightbombers' - from memory, the briefing segment was filmed in early March 1945 (source: Jones, W. E. 'BOMBER INTELLIGENCE - 103, 150, 166, 170 Squadrons Operations and Techniques '42 - '45': an autobiography by the Intelligence Officer who appears in the film), while the footage of Lancasters shown over the target with flares going down was filmed in B&W over Pforzheim on 23-24 February 1945, being colourised for the Nightbombers movie.

'Nightbombers' was just a movie to document the activities of Bomber Command in colour, no more and no less, and as to the Luftwaffe having been "destroyed," I will simply point out that a couple of weeks before the briefing was filmed, Bomber Command, for example, lost 45 aircraft one night when the Luftwaffe sortied 170 night fighters and claimed 65 bombers shot down, while a few nights after the briefing was filmed Bomber Command would lose another 49 aircraft, with 60 German night fighters being sortied, and then two nights after that another 40 aircraft were lost, with 121 German night fighters being sortied.

With respect, please check facts before issuing generalised statements.


Cheers

Rod