Operation Crossbow
2011 · 59 min · Documentary, History, TV Movie
The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies used 3D photos to thwart the Nazis' weapons of mass destruction before they could obliterate Britain. This film brings together the heroic Spitfire pilots who took the photographs and the brilliant minds of RAF Medmenham that made sense of the jigsaw of clues hidden in the photos. Hitler was pumping a fortune into his new-fangled V weapons in the hope they could win him the war. But Medmenham had a secret weapon of its own, a simple stereoscope which brought to life every contour of the enemy landscape in perfect 3D. The devil was truly in the detail and, together with extraordinary personal testimonies, the film uses modern computer graphics on the original wartime photographs to show just how the photo interpreters were able to uncover Hitler's nastiest secrets.
- Director
- Tim Dunn
- Released
- May 15, 2011
- Language
- English
Cast
Samantha Bond
Narrator (voice)
Dino A. Brugioni
Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.
Elizabeth Hick
Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
Col. Robert S. Ehlers
Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
Jimmy Taylor
Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
Allan Williams
Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University
Wing Commander Mike Mockford
Himself - Photo Interpreter
Major Chris Halsall
Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.
John S. Blyth
Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
Geoffrey Stone
Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
Col. Roy M. Stanley
Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
Christian Muhldorfer-Vogt
Himself - Peenemünde Museum
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