Royal Air Force Film Production Unit

Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (typically abbreviated to the acronym RAFFPU) was a unit of the British Royal Air Force that produced propaganda films depicting RAF personnel and aircraft both on the ground and in aerial action during Second World War from 1941 to 1945.

[1] The RAFFPU had two main tasks; to document the RAF's work and to produce propaganda films involving the Royal Air Force.

The aim of the film was to show the public how Bomber Command operated, especially with a varied crew drawn from Britain, Australia and Canada.

[7] FPU personnel included early commander Flight Lieutenant John Boulting as well as later director Richard Attenborough who flew camera missions over Europe.

Noted dramatist Terence Rattigan, then a Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant, was posted in 1943 to the RAF Film Production Unit to work on The Way to the Stars and Journey Together.

The film director and WAAF continuity girl discuss the set-up of a shot in a scene at a railway station from "Journey Together" at No. 1 RAFFPU at RAF Stanmore Park , Middlesex
Hamburg in ruins , eyewitness photograph by a Royal Air Force official photographer