The Spirit Of The RAF (1941)

Title reads: “The Spirit of the RAF“. Location of events unknown. M/S of airmen in reading room of an RAF (Royal Air Force) Hospital. A jolly looking woman hands out books to jovial airmen. Various shots of two men hanging from wall bars in hospital gymnasium. A doctor supervises them as they do physiotherapy exercises. M/S of three men playing gentle game of football (two are on crutches). M/S of circle of men playing catch with a medicine ball. We see nurses and some of the more able patients running out of hospital and onto snow covered lawn. Great shots of snow ball fight between airmen patients and nurses. Lots of flirting - one of the airmen scoops up one of the nurses in his arms! RAF Coltishall, Norfolk. Various shots of a Spitfire being refuelled and loaded with bullets on a snow covered airfield. Various shots of pilots running across the snow to their aircraft. Various shots of the fighter pilots putting on their parachutes and climbing into their aircraft. Panning C/U of
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