Target Tokyo (1944)
- Directed by
- William Keighley
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 22 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This short film follows a US bomber crew as they train and fly a mission to bomb Tokyo in World War 2. It shows their preparation, the journey, and the attack from the perspective of the airmen. Ronald Reagan narrates the film.
patrioticinspirationalinstructionalsomberstraightforwarddatedstagedpropagandistic
What happens
Target Tokyo is a 22-minute film produced by the US Air Force and portraying the travels of an aircraft bomber and its crew from training in the U.S. and Saipan to the bombing of Tokyo. It was partially shot in Saipan, thus becoming the first example of a cinema of Northern Mariana Islands. Future U.S. president Ronald Reagan was the narrator. General Henry H. Arnold starred as himself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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