'Target for Tonight'

18th October 1941: British Propaganda film shows how the country is resolute in 'hitting back' against Nazi Germany

With very little activity in the ground war there was a real need for Britain to show that it was hitting back against Germany. This mattered not just for morale on the Home Front but for a worldwide audience that was looking sceptically at whether Britain really could sustain a war against Germany. Looking at the map it sometimes seemed that Nazi Germa…