Ack-ack

Narrated by one of the men charged with manning these wartime batteries, we take a look at the efforts made by these teams - from all walks of life - who must get their shells from 0-30,000 feet in thirty seconds so as to hit, or deter at least, the Nazi bombers travelling at speeds of two hundred miles-per-hour on attack runs over British towns, cities and industrial targets. It demonstrates quite a bit of the science, of the sighting technology and he points out that they don’t even have to be able to see the enemy to make a solid fist of sending him home with his tail between his legs (if, indeed, it’s still attached at all!). It’s one of those short documentaries that is designed to help people sleep better at night, knowing that they are well protected whilst extolling the virtues of the assemblage of ordinary folks determined to do their best day in, day out. There is some archive, but this isn’t really about explosions and wreckage so much as about people knuckling down and proving remarkably effective at their task.

Narrated by one of the men charged with manning these wartime batteries, we take a look at the efforts made by these teams - from all walks of life - who must get their shells from 0-30,000 feet in thirty seconds so as to hit, or deter at least, the Nazi bombers travelling at speeds of two hundred miles-per-hour on attack runs over British towns, cities and industrial targets. It demonstrates quite a bit of the science, of the sighting technology and he points out that they don’t even have to be able to see the enemy to make a solid fist of sending him home with his tail between his legs (if, indeed, it’s still attached at all!). It’s one of those short documentaries that is designed to help people sleep better at night, knowing that they are well protected whilst extolling the virtues of the assemblage of ordinary folks determined to do their best day in, day out. There is some archive, but this isn’t really about explosions and wreckage so much as about people knuckling down and proving remarkably effective at their task.