PREPARING A BOMBING RAID [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 9 mins
  • Description: Probably 27 Night Bomber Squadron RFC at Serny in early 1918. An Airco DH4 is brought out of its hangar and fitted with 20-pound bombs. The pilot and gunner board the plane. A light tramway is used for the bomb trolleys bringing 112-pound bombs across the airfield, and one of these is fitted to another DH4. The propeller of the original aircraft is turned over and the chocks removed (out of sequence). The gunner is handed two aerial cameras. The aircraft takes off.Two British steam tractors ploughing a field, very close to a barbed wire entanglement. One tractor becomes ditched and the other is used to pull it out of the mud. Rakes or harrows drawn by horses are at work on the same land.
    I. Preparations for a bombing raid by an RFC Squadron, Western Front, early 1918.II. British Army steam tractors ploughing a field on the Western Front, early 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Flying Corps, Squadron 27 / British Army / aircraft, British - combat: De Havilland DH4 (Airco) / weapons, British air - bomb: 20-pound / weapons, British air - bomb: 112-pound / equipment, British air - camera: aerial reconnaissance / equipment, British air - general: bomb trolley / operations, British air - preparation / operations, British air - sortie / agriculture, British - arable / transport, British military - agricultural: steam tractor / transport, British military - animal / 01/3(4-15) / 01/3(4-15) / Western Front
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound