Target Berlin
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War Documentary hosted by John Hedges, published by Discovery Channel broadcasted as part of DC Wings series in 1995 - English narration
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Before the advent of the long-range escort fighter, American bomber groups flying daylight bombing raids into the heart of Nazi Germany were at the mercy of the Me109s and Fw190s of the Luftwaffe. Losses on a single mission could sometimes exceed 30%. As the B-17s and B-24s were brutally torn out of the skies by 20 and 30mm cannon fire, the whole feasiblity of daylight bombing was called into question. And then the P-51 Mustang arrived. The P-51 was the only fighter with the range to escort bombers deep inside Germany - and it was a natural killer. By early 1944, the Luftwaffe had to be smashed as a prelude to D-Day and the P-51 would do the smashing, while the 100-mile-long bomber formations acted as fighter-bait... Packed with archive footage, dramatic gun camera film and exclusive interviews with Mustang pilots, this programme is a tribute to the fighter aircraft that won air superiority for the Allies in the war-torn skies over Europe.
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Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
Video Bitrate: 2199 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x544
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.324:1
Frames Per Second: 25.000
Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Audio Bitrate: 224kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 47:41.400
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 829 MB
Ripped by: DocFreak08
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Categories: War | John Hedges | Discovery Channel | DC Wings | 1995 | English | Name | War in the Air
Language > English
Name
Narrator > John Hedges
Publisher > Discovery Channel
Publisher > Discovery Channel > DC Wings
Series
Subject > History
Subject > Technology
Subject > War
Subject > War > War in the Air
Theme
Year > 1995