I thought it was this video then when I read the title I thought oh it's a different video but it doesn't appear to be. Is the title wrong and it's hours not days.

@mattsmith5421 thanks for that, I have reposted this 6 times today I must of got messed up lol.

@@Trippingthroughadventures As a Brit. I think it is important to clarify that The Battle of Britain lasted for 3 and a half months, from 10 July to 31 October 1940. The title of the video is extremely misleading. Some people have taken it to mean that the Battle lasted only 13 hours. In fact it simply focuses on one particular day, 15 September 1940, to give an understanding of how intense the Battle became.

You DO get paid if you get enough hits !

@@HenriHattar normally yes but there’s some copy write issues using this video.

Those countries were also fighting for themselves. Had Germany won Hitler would not have been kind to them.

We survived ALONE. NO other country between July 1940 and April 1941 was threatened with bombing, invasion and naval blockade. If you want to correctly argue that Britain was supplied by its empire and the US then remember to add that nazi Germany was also supplied by its OWN empire of its recent European conquests (including some of the most heavily industrialised nations on the planet), as well as MILLIONS of tons of food, fuel and raw materials from their "best friend forever" the USSR (well, at least until 22nd June 1941), as well as being supplied from neutral Spain, Finland, Sweden & the Balkan countries... oh and not forgetting that the US also supplied HUGE amounts of raw and finished materials to the nazis AS WELL as it did to the British, being a neutral profiteering bystander as it was until Dec 1941!!! In 1940 Britain saved itself INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US. That truth is directed at the US Govt and corporations. As for ordinary US citizens, we loved you then and still do.

​@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684Some excellent and very valid points here! We had help from many quarters in bringing WWll to an end but we stood alone and endured heavy losses for many hard months in the earlier stages of the war. As for the USA, State papers released in recent years show that they were considering starting a war with Britain as late as the early 1930s because they wanted to annexe Canada to exploit its natural resources and they still held residual antipathy towards "the old country" from Civil War days. No wonder they were busy profiting off both sides of the European war - until Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and teamed up with Hitler's Germany. Only then did their priorities really change.

​@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 "We survived ALONE" If you're British then "you" asked for the war. "You" declared it on Germany not the other way around. "NO other country between July 1940 and April 1941 was threatened with bombing, invasion and naval blockade." Well, except for the country you declared war on... and later upon its allies including Finland for simply defending itself against Soviet aggression. "If you want to correctly argue " Yeah, because Germany got so much "food, fuel and raw materials" from "heavily industrialized Finland and the Balkans"... Well, nothing from the Balkans until at least after American Lend-Lease had already been passed and put in effect. [March '41, ya know.] And little Finland fighting first the Winter and then the Continuation Wars was actually importing food - not shipping it out. Sweden did supply Germany with both raw and manufactured product and materials but not food as they themselves were under wartime rationing due to blockade by..."you", actually. You can read all about this at Wiki. Look up "Sweden during WWII". There we also read "the Swedish government was not convinced that the British could protect them and opted to continue exports [to Germany]. The iron ore [Sweden exported to Germany] provided much needed gold bullion, food and coal from Germany". So if Sweden's getting food and coal from Germany then you can figure that Germany isn't getting that stuff from Sweden, right? The USSR is out of the picture in June '41 - but that as well is after Lend-Lease came into effect. " oh and not forgetting" Hmm. Can you cite your sources for saying "the US also supplied HUGE amounts of raw and finished materials to the nazis AS WELL as it did to the British, being a neutral profiteering bystander as it was until Dec 1941!!!" ? Because I'm trying to square that claim with the fact that in 1940 the US supplied critical 100 octane fuel as early as the Battle of Britain. See "Gassed up: The juice that fuelled victory in the Battle of Britain". "In 1940 Britain saved itself INSPITE of" Nope. See above.

@@bearcatXF "Britain declared war on Germany"..... As I explained to you on another of your utterly clueless comments, you're the type of idiot who when a passer by intervenes to stop a serial rapist from attacking his next victim then calls the "good Samaritan" the "aggressor". "Can you cite your sources"? Do you mean in the same way as you have? I.E completely failed to back up any of your nonsense with ANY sources whatsover? (Mind you, anything you cite would probably come from some David Irving BS or some other neo-nazi cockwash such as "Europa the last battle". I like the FULL story, not just the US centric "edited highlights". Read on. If the US had REALLY wanted to "help Britain" in its "hour of need", then instead of bleeding the British empire dry and causing its collapse, they could have for example sold a production license for Tetra Ethyl Lead (or TEL - The compound required for the production of hi-octane fuels) to Britain when we applied to purchase one from the "Standard Oil of Jersey City Company" prewar.... Instead they & the US Govt refused to sell one to "their British cousins"... So much for the nonsense idea of a "special relationship" between the UK & US. Standard Oil and the US Govt however had absolutely NO qualms though about providing the exact same licence to the nazis when they applied to purchase one in 1938. But when it came to Britain the US preferred to strip the British of ALL their gold, cutting edge technology and military bases around the world during the British "hour of need" in return for a supply of amongst other things, US produced hi-octane fuel. Where there nazi sympathies in the Standard Oil boardroom and in some parts of the US Govt? The truth is so unsavoury were the business practices of the US "Standard Oil" company (such as seeking furtive routes and brokering shady deals to supply nazi Germany with fuel and oil via third party nations during the war) that it's activities were investigated and closely monitored by the US Govt... but only AFTER the they had been DRAGGED into WW2 in Dec 1941 by the German declaration of war on the US!!! The US "business community" engaged in VERY profitable business dealings with BOTH sides throughout WW2. US corporations such as Ford, General Motors, US Standard Oil, IBM, Kodak, Chase Bank, Coke-Cola (to name but a few) carried on "business as usual" with nazi Germany THROUGHOUT WW2. Ford's auto production facility in Cologne and General Motor's Opel subsiduary plant in Berlin were both busy working 24/7 THROUGHOUT WW2 furnishing the nazis with approximately 60% of the Wehrmacht's military transportation needs, as well as a sizeable chunk of the Luftwaffe's aero engine requirements... all the better for attacking Britain with eh, and all the while providing US companies with BILLIONS of dollars in profit, and the US govt with millions of dollars of tax revenue The "ALuminum COrporation of America" (ALCOA) for instance supplied SO much aircraft grade aluminium to nazi Germany in the late 1930s and into the early 1940s that it actually caused shortfalls within the US government's own military aircraft production schedules during the same period, so much so that in June 1941 the situation prompted Harold Ickes, US Secretary of the Interior, to go on record as saying “If America loses this coming war, it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America”. With "friends" like the US business community who needs enemies? As I said above Britain saved itself INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US. See above. Rest assured, the US adminstration saw oversaw the death of the British Empire while we fought ALONE for 10 months to maintain the flame of democracy in Europe, thereby saving idiot US isolationists from the nightmare of being sandwiched between a nazi dominated Europe and a Japanese dominated Asia. The US paled her hand excellently by spreading her hegemony into Europe post WW2, but she did so at the cost of MILLIONS of EUROPEAN lives. Give over with your "the US saved us" BS. Now go and polish your "GI Joe sixshooters" little one.

You beat me to it brawd, I was going to recommend that one too its a good one.

We will see but we got some copy write issues with this one.

Love you both from England🤗also check out Clarkson history of the Victoria cross.hated history at school as it was just repetitive,boring nonesense about learning every king & queen since 1500 just to pass a pointless exam😫but these videos make life as surprising to me as it does to you & it involved my grandparents!also check out anything by fred dibnah & guy martin.more historical legends that I wish we're my teachers🤗

@@Trippingthroughadventures you should be ok with the greatest raid and Clarkson's other documentary on the Victoria Cross as there are many reactions to it already. Both are excellent and worth checking out.

@@andrewcraw7117 There's a little twist at the end of story of the Victoria Cross. I'll let you watch it to see what it is.

What "small" nation are you talking about? In 1940 the British had an empire "upon which the Sun never set" and consisted of over half a billion people.

@@bearcatXF well this was about our tiny island was it not?

@@Shell2164 You think in WW2 Germany was only fighting the "tiny island" of Britain? Even in 1940?

@bearcatXF for the 13 hours in question was any other nation mentioned aside from France?

@@rogu3rooster Do you mean in this video - or in reality? See "Gassed up: The juice that fuelled victory in the Battle of Britain". But that aside - You're not going to tell me in 2024 that you're hearing for the first time about the existence of the British Empire are you?

@@rosaliegolding5549 Well they might not have been in such an impossible situation. Apparently it was war gamed and the result was that, with the RAF the invasion of Britain is still unsuccessful.

13 hours that saved Britain is mythical nonsense! The luftwaffe was never going to beat the RAF! The British for starters, were producing more aircraft than they were losing! And Britain was never in danger of being invaded, the Germans never had the capability to do so!

The Royal Navy has disappeared you know then you take into account Germam equipment and resources it was impossible they wouldn't have succeeded.

Yes, but most were British. The total number of pilots was over 2,000.

And only 7 were Americans..so they hardly carried that battle..🙄

@philb2085 Pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain, and the countries they were from. Australia 32 Barbados 1, Belgium 28, Canada 112, Czechoslovakia 88, France 13, Ireland 10, Jamaica 1, Newfoundland 1, New Zealand 127, Rhodesia 3, South Africa 25, USA 9, Poland 145, United Kingdom 2,342.

56 pilots in the Battle of Britain, were naval aviators, many in 804 Naval Air Squadron and 808 Naval Air Squadron.

The Polish pilots were enlisted into their own RAF Spitfire Squadron based at RAF Northolt. There is a memorial to the Polish pilots at RAF Northolt on the North Circular Road.

I still ibe near biggin hill. Had Lancaster and 2 spitfires fly over my house. Must have been something else hearing and seeing those overhead everyday

Or British ' sheer bloody-mindedness'. There's not a race on the planet more stubborn than the British!

You don't. You're a proper snowflake.

That was then,this now.

I as a Swede weep with pride for your effort, by proxy

My great grandads were in the black watch in ww1, grandad was in merchant navy in ww2, torpedoed a couple of times then joined the army so he could shoot back. They fought against what England embraces now, sad times

Thank you for there service. a lot of my family and extended family were killed in the WW1 and WW2, I'll always remember the ones i got to know.

As am I !

You should watch the movie The Battle of Britain. Just a thought

Unbreakable spirit. Makes me proud. Much like the people of Coventry who immediately rallied after the devastating attack.

@@baylessnow I had that recently in the countryside near RAF Cosford the day before the airshow. Out practicing I guess. I stopped what I was doing and just watched and listened to it 👍🇬🇧

@@beefsuprem0241 It's a brilliant sound isn't it?

The "BBMF" or "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight". MARRRRRRRRRRVELLOUS !!!!

Jesus wept! An internal combustion engine, is an internal combustion engine!! If the sound of one makes you orgasmic, you need help bud!!

The Spanish (Hispano) BF109 fighters also used merlin engines.

Fact.

Why are people using the royal we, when they weren’t even born then?

@@DerekLangdon Pathetic comment

@@DerekLangdon She said she remembers it. Show some respect.

If you watch to the end of the video they actually say that in the video itself. No it wasn't the end of the war but it doesn't take away from the fact that this was an event within the period of the blitz that changed Hitler's mind about invading Britain. It's not the only defining moment of the war but it was definitely one of them.

@@Loulizabeth Yes, the video that they were reacting to said, incorrectly, " ... four more years ..." at 56:46

Us? andypandy Us? You weren’t even born!!

@@DerekLangdon If Americans can say "we" won the Revolutionary War then I can say that "we" won World War II. In fact two of the relatives that I was brought up with in the 1950s and 1960s actually fought in that wall so given that they were close family members (Uncles) then yes: "we". OK?

it has come from the movie.

You are quite right!! The once progressive, but now gullible working class have adopted fascism as their creed!!

You only have to see what's happening in Ukraine to put this into our own world view.

As the mother of a son currently serving in the British army who works so hard in his training and is serving his country to which he would give his life, I resent that statement. If you mean the general British public fighting spirit? I might agree. However, our British soldiers are still as dedicated to protecting us.

Im sure when having to defend your life in a war, you do step up, you have to, to survive.

Bore off

most of it was in their video

Yep,15th Sept saw the most enemy contacts. It was intermittent for the time you say. It depended most of all on the weather. Other days saw up to 1000 aircraft in the sky. As you say it wasn’t one day.

@@LS-mx1ge the UK was the world's superpower, we had the biggest and best navy, we still had our empire with military bases that are now mainly under American control. The US wanted us taken down a few pegs, for some reason they thought he would want America back, they feared that we would use Canada to invade. Everything that happened after the way with the UK and the empire was pushed by the American government.

@@solatiumz Darn those American upstarts!

@@LS-mx1ge I wonder how Churchill would go about "avoiding" the war considering he was so enthusiastic in carrying it out. And by that I mean his targeting of German cities up (almost) to the very end. Yes I know all about Bomber Harris. > If domestic factors have any bearing on the outbreak of war in September 1939 they are to be found in the response of the British and French Empires to the decline in their relative international strength and the cost and political difficulties of reversing this trend. For Britain in particular it soon became obvious that a sustained rearmament and increased government spending would produce crisis in the balance of payments, a decline in exports, more imports, a threat to the currency, labour difficulties and so on. By 1939 a Treasury official warned that Britain was sailing economically "upon uncharted waters to an unknown destination" [source: Shay, "British Rearmament in the Thirties", Princeton 1977, p.276]. If Hitler were to be confronted militarily, while Britain and France maintained economic stability and domestic political peace, then 1939 was in some respects the best time to do so. Allied rearmament was planned to peak in 1939/40, while the advantage of using up unemployed resources and avoiding inflation was not expected to last beyond the winter of 1939. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of trade, concluded that "there would come a time which, on balance of our financial strength and our strength in armaments, was the best time for war to break out" [source: ibid, p.280]. Neither Britain nor France was prepared to accept an end to its imperial power and world influence, though neither could really afford the military effort of defending it. Caught between these two pressures, but reasonably confident of the brittle nature of the Nazi regime, they opted for war. [source: Peden, "A Matter of Timing: The Economic Background to British Foreign Policy 1937-1939", in History, lxix, 1984, pp. 15-28; P. Kennedy, "The Realities behind Diplomacy", London 1981, pp. 301-16]. By June 1940 France was defeated and in political turmoil. By December 1940 Britain was almost bankrupt, entirely dependent on American finance and war production to keep going. The economy and political system of the Third Reich was only brought to collapse by the combined efforts of America, Russia and Britain after four years of total war. < - Richard Overy

@@solatiumz This is true but i think it relates more to WW1 than 2. The US was more than happy to see the Europeans powers tear themselves apart, its own attempts at Empire had not been so successful due to them. Seeing, specifically the British, losing their power over the Empire was something they saw as a good thing, i always got the feeling they were sitting and biding their time during the first World War, to see which way it went, to see how they could profit both financially and politically from it. There was still no love lost between the US and UK at this time, they only entered at the bequest of the French. By the time WW2 came around our Empire was crumbling, unable to fully recover after the disaster of WW1, independence had already been achieved by the English speaking colonies and much of the rest was in revolt. The US entered because they eventually had no choice, the war came to them in the form of Pearl Harbour, they didn't do it so save us and went out of there way after to negate British power and influence.

@@waldorfmcvitty4854 Absolutely. The US should've just stayed out of WW1. Theoretically then there'd never have been a second war because no Treaty of Versailles, no Bolshevik Revolution, no Hitler, and so on. It's Pearl _Harbor_ btw.

I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star. Which was scrupulously ONLY awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).

So was my Mom, from Birmingham , she was evacuated

That’s the truth! All this, they kept calm, and carried on nonsense is sickening!

My mother could still name all the aircraft in her 80s. We lived a few miles from an airport that held a display every year and she was telling my children how she had been taught to recognise the silhouette and sound of each type of plane

That phrase, "it's alright they're ours" is memorable.

Wow that blew my mind, I just ran into to Tiffany to show her, now we got to check out frost thank you 😊

@@Trippingthroughadventures enjoy 😉 😘 😊

And both in the darling buds of May another fantastic tv show

Convoys to Russia gathered in Loch Ewe and were able to take on fuel before they left together.

Not only is your grammar poor, so is your historical knowledge.

The US didn't "come into the war". The US government bent over backwards to AVOID being dragged into the war, and MUCH preferred letting one of her nearest global rivals fight on alone opposing the totalitarian takeover of Europe, while the US drained her gold reserves. It took the NAZI declaration of war on the United States on 11th Dec 1941 to DRAG the US against her will into the war in Europe.

You may be English? But your English language skills, ain’t English!!

That’s a myth! It’s nothing but propaganda! If you think people who lost their homes, or love ones, kept calm, and carried on as normal. Then you are deluded! It devastated the lives of people!!!

Yes, the British are really up against it now!! And what are they doing about it? They are turning to fascism for answers!! The same fascist ideology they fought against in WW2

The Polish squadron took many years to be given recognition. They were initially treated very badly and not taken seriously. When they were finally allowed to go into action, they became the most effective fighter squadron in the RAF. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptqZnbGUqcfShqs.htmlsi=DawmmhdNKMsZdWQ8

​@@adrianmcgrath1984Polish 303 Squadron RAF had the most kills of the Battle of Britain.

What absolute nonsense…it ALWAYS gets mentioned..we are extremely grateful to our commonwealth brothers and sisters and everyone else that helped.. it’s only virtue signallers like you that brings it up …well you can stop patting yourself on the back..and you can put your flag down..There is no need for the perpetual offended to spout off.. 🙄🇬🇧

So sad but so lucky, you just never know.... 🍀♥️

@@adrianmcgrath1984 thank you! Very few people acknowledge what it was like to be the children of parents traumatised by the war.

I am a baby boomer and teachers could be crawl in the 1960s but we lived with it . On cross country runs in north Cornwall the games teacher would run behind us with a plimsole and hit the boys who were slow ,luckily for me I loved running. He made us run in to the sea and this was in the winter our legs when blue when running back to school happy days and know excuses

Thank you for the kind words

Thank you so much I caught myself and was like ….🥴 haha next weekends toad in the hole lol

it was ive watched the film many times. Even saw parts of it being made when i was a kid and lived close to the south coast and RAF Manston which was used.

I live in Oxfordshire and my elderly neighbour lived through the war. He told me about the young women being trained in Pounden who would land in France. He was quite taken by one of them and it was later rumoured that she was captured, tortured and killed. Unimaginable bravery from some very young people.

Seven of them fell in the Battle of Britain. Let's not forget the Polish, French, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian, South Rhodesian, Israeli and other Commonwealth pilots, many of which fell.

​@@davidmarsden9800 Israelis didnt exist then.There were probably Jewish fighter pilots.But not Israelis.

Yes the commonwealth countries

@@bwilson5401 Just the one listed in the statistics, which I don't know why as you're right Israel didn't exist until 1948 except for around 1300BC.

@ANDYDT ...there were around 3,500 pilots in the Battle of Britain , around 3,000 British and 500 mainly Polish , New Zealand, and Czech, and finally around 150 of other nationalities

Fair enough 🤣😂🤣😂

I like a bit of humour!

Oh wow 😮 Thank you for viewing we love and respect Great Britain and its History

So?

@@DerekLangdon Because it was critical during WWII to defeat Hitler. I would have thought that that was obvious.

@@valeriedavidson2785 This is about the Battle of Britain - ships can't fly 😉

@@gibson617ajgthe Royal Navy was a key component of the Battle of Britain in retaining control of home waters, given that German landings would have been amphibious, but it’s just not the usual focus as the exciting fighting was in the air…

@@vaudevillian7 The Battle Of Britain is probably recognised as an air war by everyone but you it seems. "The 13 hours that saved Britain".

Douglas Bader had a double amputation

Horrific. The horror clearly stayed with her. I weep for the innocent animals, as well as the people.

80% of RAF Fighter Command pilots during the battle of Britain were of British birth. I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star. Which was scrupulously ONLY awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).

And also remember that until the nazi declaration of war on the USA on 11th Dec 1941, the USA was NEUTRAL, and whereas we're constantly told that "the US saved Britain", the real fact is that US corporations (and subsequently the US govt) was also making MASSIVE profits by supplying the nazis at the same time it was selling its wares to the UK. That's NOT an attack on ordinary Americans such as this couple... we Brits love you all, but it IS an unpalatable truth about how global corporations place their profits above EVERY other consideration... even MORE so today !!! P.S Lucky hubby 😃👌👍

As somebody whose country fought right alongside Britain throughout those three years, I feel I ought to be a little insulted by this comment.

@@TillyOrifice What country?

@@TillyOrifice The defence of the UK during 1940 was carried out by +95% British troops, barring a single Canadian infantry division and 4 understrength brigades from Auz and NZ. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped support units of a 2nd division) 2 Australian independent infantry brigades (BOTH under strength & under-equipped) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually 2 understrength NZ infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade) The above units were in addition to the 1.5 MILLION British citizens who made up the UK's "Home Guard". At this early stage of the war (1939-41) with regard to the defence of Britain, the commonwealth was for all intents & purposes a vocal supporter from across the world, though they obviously grew to make a LARGE contribution to the British Imperial war effort from 1941 onwards.

@@TillyOrifice And not forgetting the pilots of RAF Fighter Command during the battle of Britain, I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star, which was SCRUPULOUSLY only awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).

Aye when "Sheffield Steel" was known around the world.... until the globalists shifted it all to China.

Thank you for that we didn’t know that 😇

😂😂😂 even the Germans spoke about fighting the “ English”.

You Brits surrendered years ago! You belong to the Americans now!!!

@chrismccartney8668 Keith Park was a New Zealander, and was born in our small town of Thames,on the Coromandel Peninsula, about 106 kilometers from Auckland, we are very proud of him RIP.

Leigh Mallory was a disgraceful person. He conspired with cronies within the air ministry to undermine the strategy of Dowdin and Park at the height of the battle. It takes a real narcissist to try and impose their will, when the game is on a knife edge.

@@stevedavy2878 In consolation, Leigh-Mallory was awarded his own personal set of "wings" when he was killed in an air crash in the French alps in 1944, the only pity was that the crew of the transport plane that he had ordered to take off despite atrocious weather conditions were killed with him.

Not now though.

It's great that you know so much about your mother and father's service. Well done.