The Last Bomb

The Last Bomb
Directed by	Frank Lloyd
Production company	First Motion Picture Unit
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	1945 (1945)
Running time	35 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Last Bomb was a 1945

The film begins by describing the taking off points in Saipan, Guam, and Tinian, remarking how they have changed since American occupation. General Curtis LeMay is shown planning a daylight raid on Japan's industrial areas.

Squadrons of

fighters that will escort the bombers. The film then proceeds to the actual bombing of Japan, showing one of the B-29s in combat with Japanese fighters, dogfights between the escorting P-51s and Japanese aircraft and the destruction leveled on Tokyo by the B-29s' payload and subsequent strafing by the escort fighters.

When the bombers return to base, the hazards of war are assessed, particularly the problems associated with landing the large planes, often damaged by Japanese flak or fighters, which could sometimes be fatal.

At the very end some color footage of the mushroom cloud at Nagasaki is shown, the narrator, Reed Hadley, telling us that it saves thousands of American lives by preventing an invasion of Japan.

References

External links

• The Last Bomb on
  YouTube, uploaded by the National Archives and Records Administration
• The short film The Last Bomb is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
• The Last Bomb at
  IMDb