Train Busters (1944)

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.

Date of release
1944-03-14
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
13m
Genres
Documentary, War
Director
Sydney Newman

Casting

Interesting facts

Train Busters is a 13-minute 1943 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sydney Newman. The film was made by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Overseas Film Unit and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the NFB's Canada Carries On series. Train Busters depicts the Allied night-bombing campaign over German-occupied Europe that was complemented by close air support missions flown by the RCAF targeting enemy trains.

Production

Typical of the NFB's wartime series of documentary short films, Train Busters relied heavily on military assistance in obtaining stock footage. The film incorporated footage shot over a period of time from 1939–1943. While the aerial sequences were limited to available footage, some of the aerial scenes were shot in Canada and carefully edited with other footage obtained from the British Ministry of Information as well as other sources, including…

The RCAF aircraft in Train Busters encompassed most of the types used in Bomber and Fighter Commands, by the RCAF in 1943, including:

de Havilland Mosquito medium bomber/fighter-bomber

North American Mustang I reconnaissance/fighter-bomber

Supermarine Spitfire fighter, fighter-bomber

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