Home Guard Shoot Down A Bomber (1940)

Full title reads: "Home Guard Shoot Down A Bomber".
MS of Home Guard men training with rifles.
GV Wreckage of Dornier lying in field, it was shot down by Home Guard rifle fire.
CU Officer congratulating his men on their achievement.
VS Good shots of men at action in the anti-aircraft gun emplacements, showing gun aimers and gunners in action against large formation of German bombers.
VS of the wreckage of German bombers lying in the fields of Southern England.
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[@DanielGillen]

Well done lads

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

I had no idea that the home guard saw any action

[@award3007]

They did often help in Air Raids.

[@BattleAxe1345]

"Made in Germany, finished in Britain!", love the wit and banter you hear in these UK newsreels from the war.

[@ashman187]

They do not like it upum!