GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS (item) [Main Title]

Sir Stafford Cripps meets Air Transport Auxiliary pilots and Squadron Leader claims Bomber Command will hasten war's end.

"Britain's ever-growing air power". New Minister of Aircraft Production visits an airfield and shakes hands with some pilots, including a woman, members of the increasingly important Air Transport Auxiliary. Views of Spitfire and Mosquito taking off. After film and still of Cologne raid, bomber crews back from a raid on Berlin standing on and beneath a Lancaster hear their squadron leader say "on the whole a very good trip indeed. Rather sticky ack-ack though. I'm sure it will help to finish the war off very much sooner."

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