A radio impression of the work of the Bomber Command as typified by an attack on an oil refinery and oil storage tanks at Bremen
The chief characters:
A Flight-Lieutenant, the Second Pilot, the Sergeant Observer, the Sergeant Wireless Observer, the Sergeant Rear-Gunner, who form the crew of a bomber
The programme written and produced by Cecil McGivem in collaboration with officers and crews of a Bomber
Command Squadron
This programme promises to be even more thrilling than McGivern's previous programme about the work of the Spitfires, broadcast in June. Listeners will hear a reconstruction of an actual raid by a Bomber Command unit, and will be told from beginning to end exactly what happened from the moment the planes took off to the moment they landed at their aerodromes after their trip to Bremen. McGivern has got his story at first-hand from the men who took part in this particular raid, and in preparing his script has had the close collaboration of the pilot and crew of the leading plane.
Recordings have been made at an R.A.F. Bomber Command aerodrome. Listeners will hear the actual bombers that took part in the raid.