Episode 02 - Bomber Command: Getting Home

Canadian aircrew struggle to fly their crippled bombers home after a WWII raid over Nazi Germany.

Getting home was never easy for bomber crews: Flying with Bomber Command was the most dangerous service in the Allied forces during the Second World War. Of the 125,000 men who served in bomber aircrew, 55,000 were killed, including nearly 10,000 Canadians. Indeed, a majority of bomber aircrew did not survive the 30 sorties needed to complete an operational tour. Getting Home continues the incredible story of Bomber Command begun in Hitting Back.

In this film, Bomber Command personnel and a Luftwaffe pilot take the viewer through the frightening reality of fighting in the skies as they try to get a damaged bomber home, providing an intimate, personal, examination of one of the Second World War's most protracted and deadly campaigns.