"Big Week" Feb. 19-25, 1944, the British put 2,300 bombers over Germany, the Americans 3,800. Germany lost 450 planes that week.<br /><br />As the tide of war turned, the Allies roounted massive bomber offensives which devastated the German and Japanese homelands.<br /><br />Here are the Flying Fortresses, Superfort-resses, Lancasters, Liber-ators, Marauders, and many other Allied bombers which powered those mighty raids.<br /><br />Wartime footage from Britain's Iruperial War Museum and the United States National Archives, this video includes film of American, British and Soviet bombers from all theaters of the war.<br /><br />Commentary was written by well-known aviation authority Christopher Chant.<br /><br />"That ride down the corridors of the sky in a Baming bomber was to haunt eny mesnories for the rest of my life. I felt catapulted through space, spinning so fast. I couldn't pull my arms and legs into my body. I jerked the rip-cord and waited. Nothing happened and I thought On hell, the whole day is screwed up. I jerked it harder. There was a soft swish, then a hard jerk, and I was suspended in space, hanging in the most complete silence I had ever known." <br />(B-17 pilot in Europe)
