Target for Today

{{short description|1944 film by William Keighley}}

{{About||the similar 1941 British propaganda film of World War II|Target for Tonight|a description of the filming of World War II combat footage|RAF Polebrook#Hollywood at Polebrook}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Target for Today

| image = Target for Today.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = William Keighley

| writer =

| starring =

| producer =

| music = Alexander Steinert

| studio = First Motion Picture Unit

| distributor = U.S. Government

| released = {{Film date|1944}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| language = English

}}

Target for Today is a documentary film describing the preparation and mounting of a United States Army Air Forces raid on East Prussia. It contains much combat footage of B-17 and B-24 bombers and named for the phrase used at briefings before air raids. The October 1943 footage was filmed during Eighth Air Force attacks on Nazi Germany industrial targets in Anklam, the 22nd Air Base in Marienburg (on the 9th),{{cite magazine |date=November 8, 1943 |title=U.S. Bombing: Arnold calls the Marienburg raid the best example of precision bombing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1cEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA119 |format=pdf |magazine=Life |page=119 |accessdate=2009-12-24}} and Gdynia in occupied Poland. Prior to the combat footage, the documentary explains Operation Pointblank target selection and depicts planning, briefing, and preparation.