Operation Crossbow (1965)

Directors

Michael Anderson

Cast

George Peppard, Jeremy Kemp, Sophia Loren, Tom Courtenay, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson

The story

In 1943, Nazi Germany is developing the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket. Technical issues with the V-1 lead the Germans to create a crewed version for flight testing, but the test pilots die flying it. Eventually, aviator Hanna Reitsch successfully flies the prototype, and realises that mechanical shifting of the missile's weight and change of speed requires the trim controls to be changed.

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