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Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command
19911 h 44 min 4 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Brian McKenna
Production: Arnie GelbartAndré LamyAdam SymanskyDarce FardyD'Arcy O'Connor
Script: Terence McKennaBrian McKenna
Co-produced by Galafilm Inc., the CBC and the NFB in association with la Société Radio-Canada and with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada.
From the outset of the Second World War, it had been clear to Britain that air superiority would be the decisive factor in the battle against Hitler's Germany. At airbases all over England and in the skies over Europe, more than 50,000 Canadian airmen served in the campaign to bomb Germany. Ordered to drop their payloads on a remote and faceless enemy below, the airmen of Bomber Command had a thankless job. For those who survived, the sheer terror and sense of helplessness left an indelible scar.
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- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Allies and Allied ForcesCanadian Military ForcesWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- Foreign Countries > GermanyGreat BritainWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- War, Conflict and Peace > Memoirs and MemorialsPortraitsWar VeteransWorld War II
- History > World HistoryWorld War II
Credits
- director
- Brian McKenna
- producer
- Arnie Gelbart
- André Lamy
- Adam Symansky
- Darce Fardy
- associate producer
- D'Arcy O'Connor
- script
- Terence McKenna
- Brian McKenna
- cinematography
- Neville Ottey
- Andrew Binnington
- sound
- Ian Challis
- Robert Jones
- editing
- Susan Shanks
- line production
- Mary Armstrong
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- Adrian Croll
- narrator
- Terence McKenna
- cast
- Graham Campbell
- Gilbert Turp
- Nicholas Shields
- Janne Mortil
- Hamish McEwan
- Andrew Gillies
- Mark Burgess
- Patric Creeman
- Duncan Ollerenshaw
- Joel Wyner