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Train Busters

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.

War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films History - Canada - 1920-1945 All subjects
  • director
    Sydney Newman
  • producer
    Raymond Spottiswoode
  • narrator
    Lorne Greene
  • music
    Lucio Agostini

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Ages 14 to 17
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History - World War II History and Citizenship Education - Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
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