Mission Accomplished (film)
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Mission Accomplised was a short 1943 propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information about the B-17 Flying Fortress.
The film opens with a brief history of the B-17, its birth in 1935 and its proven war record at Midway and the Philippines. However, the narration states, the B-17 has yet to prove itself over Europe. The time and range needed for a successful bombing raid were not available in the European thearte, some people thought.
The film then switches to a dramatized mission over Europe, with captain telling his pilots what to bomb and where, and the film then follows them on their raid and back. At the end the many successful raid of the bomber and counted off, as well as the numbers of Germans they have shot down. The B-17 in Europe was a "mission accomplished".
