After developing and analysis, it reveals that a major oil storage facility has been built at Freihausen in the Freiburg region.

In the film Pickard is "Squadron Leader Dixon", the pilot of Wellington "F-OJ", call sign "F for Freddie".

The station groundcrew assist with the starting of the aircraft's engines, before it taxies to the end of the airfield and with clearance obtained from the runway controller, the crew take off into the dusk.

Tension builds as he locates the base and brings the damaged Wellington down safely, landing back at "Millerton" at 04:15hrs.

[8] In order to avoid giving information to the enemy, RAF Mildenhall took the fictitious name of "Millerton Aerodrome", and several other aspects of day-to-day operations of the command were altered.

Also appearing (and uncredited) is Constance Babington Smith, who was a serving WAAF officer at the time and was responsible for photographic interpretation of aerial reconnaissance pictures.

[9] Appearing in the control room scene is motor racing driver John Cobb, then a serving RAF officer.

[10] A 30-page brochure entitled The Book of the famous film Target for To-Night and sub-titled The Record in Text and Pictures of a Bombing Raid on Germany was released in 1941.

Herman Wouk, in his novel The Winds of War, included a Wellington bomber coded F-OJ and christened "F for Freddie" in an episode of the story.

The lead character, American naval captain Victor 'Pug' Henry, flies onboard "F for Freddie" as an observer during a bombing mission over Berlin.

Wouk's fictional narrative evokes portions of the real "F for Freddie"'s mission log: one of their bombs hits their target squarely and flak damages the plane and injures one of their crew members in the leg (in the novel, the rear gunner rather than the radio operator).

They have trouble holding altitude but make it back after a long, tense flight over hostile territory.