Two books focusing on the final flight, "Flight 777" (Ian Colvin, 1957) and "In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard" (Ronald Howard, 1984) asserted that the target was Howard instead: that Germans deliberately shot down Howard's DC-3 to demoralise Britain. Howard had been travelling through Spain and Portugal lecturing on film, but also meeting with local propagandists and shoring up support for the Allies. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described Leslie Howard's work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda".