Please fellows Britons, let us all take a moment to remember Sir Winston Churchill. For without him, capitulatation was the order of the war council. For without him America would never have been convinced to join the effort. For without him Europe would still be be drapped in swastikas. For without him the great British empire may have crumbled. We are eternally grateful. May Sir Winston never be forgotten for the rest if time. RIP our greatest Prime minister

Thanks for the video bless all the pilots of all the nations that fought with us in the battle of Britain with out them we would of been under German rule. Thank you!!❤💙

As a son of a dad who was born in Hammersmith in 1901, now I am a US citizen (California) by birth. I can say I am glad Britain did NOT loose the Battle of Britain, and yes I have read more then one book on the subject in my 60 plus years, cheers

I LOVE the UNITED KINGDOM! I was born and raised an American. I have admired the people of Great Britain ever since I could read. I love the culture and the long, proud history of that great empire. When I was 18 years old I was serving with the United States Marines . I was thousands of miles from home fighting in a very unpopular war. The thing that mean’t the most to the men serving was the mail we would receive from home. It was a connection to home that helped us survive the insanity of war. I had a young lady I was engaged to and planned to marry when I returned. It wasn’t long after I got overseas thatI stopped receiving mail from her. Then one day I got a letter saying she was breaking up with me and getting married. I was crushed! About a month later at mail call I received a package the size of a shoe box. When I looked at the return address it was from London, U.K. I had to check the address to make sure it was my mail. It was mine. Since I didn’t know anyone in the U.K. I had no idea what it was or who it was from. WhenI opened it the box was full of greeting cards , drawings and notes wishing me well. The box had come from school children in London, U.K. I was stunned. What those children sent me was so overwhelming and kind. It restored my faith in people. What they did revived my lagging spirt and restored hope. I will never forget that act of kindness . I LOVE THE UNITED KINGDOM! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 I lost the box along with the return address. I was able to find how they got my name. The U.S. Marine Corps has a magazine called THE LEATHERNECK. The magazine has a section that encourages readers to be a PEN PAL. That’s where I think they got my Name and Unit.

Polish Squadrons 303, 302 and other Polish Squadrons with Polish Heroes saved Britain, and helped to save Britain and they didn't let them join in the parade on the end, no thank you or anything. Hello from Poland 🇵🇱

Dowding was however well portrayed in the movie 'Battle of Britain', by Lawrence Olivier, and that could be his lasting claim to fame in the long term. I remember as a boy staying with my grandad (wing commander Geoffrey Cole RAF ret'd) in Folkestone Kent seeing the flight of 3 ,Heinkel 111s overflying the White cliffs of Dover during the film making. They were on loan from the Spanish air force, as were the (re-engined) Me 109s also shown in that excellent film

Consider that if the British had lost the Battle of Britain, the US would have stood alone in Europe and it would have had to mount attacks from the US until a foothold would have been made in North Africa. We cannot underestimate the the British resolve to fight the Germans and defend their nation.

The super submarine spitfire however it was the hawker hurricane that shot down and did the bulk of the work in the battle of Britain

My grandfather was in the British experdishoiry force he was captured and spent most of his time in a POW camp I think it was called XXB I know that he met my grandmother there

Very interesting documentary - I had not previously heard in other documentaries about the background political wranglings going on, and the jealousy concerning Park and Dowding. Whilst the RAF's fending off of the Luftwaffe and preventing the invasion of Britain makes me proud to be British, the fact that those directly responsible for that achievement were not given their due recognition is frustrating and frankly shameful.

We owe our lives to these brave souls! One of the few things that makes me proud to be English.

Excellent Documentary of the Battle of Britian. Very balanced. Gives the rightful credit to Dowding and Park for saving Britian. Their treatment was later repaid when Churchill was defeated for re-election after WWII.

Brilliant, still brings a lump to the throat.

Excellent documentary, thank you.

The manner in which Dowding was treated after securing victory in ,arguably,the greatest battle ever fought by Britain,was nothing short of obscene. At 11:42 I'm sure the narrator meant to say 2 x 7.9 mm machine guns rather than 2 x 2.79s!.

The Wehrmacht AND the Luftwaffe? Wehrmacht means "Armed Forces" and includes the Luftwaffe. Why do people still insist on saying Wehrmacht when talking about the German army? It was, and still is, called the Heer.

RIP To the 1,542 Allied airmen, 23,002 British civilians, and 2,585 Nazi German and Fascist Italian airmen who were killed in the Battle of Britain

Luftwaffe one of the deadliest aircraft in ww2,but surprisingly British RAF was proved to be best aircraft in ww2

thanks British air force and people.

Hugh Dowding = good guy = punished Lee Mallory = no good guy = rewarded It's all about Politics and Power !!!

at 11:42, the smallest mg's in the world 2.79 mm ? = 0.109 inches

Very good, thanks.

His big wigs pensioned Hugh Dowding off so that he would not receive an end of war bounty. Unlike others like Montgomery and such like who picked up a bounty of around £100,000 each. I wounder how much Hugh Dowding's boss got, as a bounty, he who promoted the big wing theory that would have utterly failed during the Battle of Britain, uh!..don't tell me...um'...£100,000 bounty and lived in luxury for the rest of his days.

That's bad that the government wouldn't even pay for the statute of Dowding

The equal of the 109? Hmmm..... The Spitfire had 13 seconds of ammunition. The 109 could fire its machine guns for 55 seconds, Secondly, the 109's cannons could fire armour-piercing shells - it had considerably more firepower than the Spitfire. Thirdly, the 109's engine had direct fuel injection. The Merlin use carburetters. These were prone to flooding the engine, causing the plane to stall. The 109 could out dive and out climb the Spitfire and, in the right hands of an experienced pilot, out turn the Spitfire too. Incidentally, all of the 109's superior qualities - the use of cannons and fuel injection, were all later incorporated into the Spitfire

Thank you Castle Lamancha for getting it right.

No other airplane has shot down more aircraft even today then the hawker hurricane thought in the battle of Britain and in Burma and France and Belgium and Berlin and even I think in Russia

Dowding, the Leonidas of the sky.

The "big wing" was conceived by Douglas Bader and continued by Lee Mallory while Bader was a POW in Colditz.

Shame how they treated Dowding and Parks.

I like the UK before the post-colonial invasion . We were all English then

Stuffy Dowding was stuffy and didn't give a damn about politics

It is a myth that Britain stood entirely alone against the Luftwaffe - good propaganda but somewhat lacking in accuracy. By the RAF’s own statistics, about 20% of the pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain came from 13 countries other than Britain (595 out of 2,937). For example, there were so many Poles and Czechs that each nationality had two of its own squadrons within the RAF, as well as men scattered throughout other British squadrons. Canada transferred an entire squadron of its own air force-complete with planes-for Britain’s defense, but several other Dominions contributed valuable manpower. New Zealand sent more pilots (127) than any other Dominion, followed by Canada (113), South Africa (25), and Australia (32). The Irish contributed 10 pilots, and there were even 3 pilots from Rhodesia, 1 from Jamaica, and 1 from Barbados. Many of the Commonwealth pilots were utilised in leadership and training positions. Sir Keith Park (a New Zealander) took command of No. 11 Group, responsible for the fighter defence of London and southeast England, taking the brunt of the Luftwaffe's air attacks. The famous Polish 303 Squadron was initially commanded by Johnny Kent, a Canadian, and another Canadian, “Butch” Barton, took charge of 249 Squadron. The heroism and courage of the all the pilots who flew for the RAF during the battle was extraordinary, but Britain’s “lone” stand against Nazi oppression was crucially aided by hundreds of citizens from many other countries as well.

Never surrender

Polscy piloci z 302 i 303 dywizjonu RAF , oczyścili niebo nad Londynem z bandyckiej Luftwaffe.

There is only one surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain and he is being ignored. Is it because he is Irish?

Yes a tough man but remember he made some big mistakes in his career. Hugh Dowding should have been praised better than he did. Dowding won the Battle of Britain with his pilots not Churchill

Let's not escalate in Ukraine that Canadians, English and American foot soldiers will be sent to defend Ukraine. What a waste! We haven't learned anything from Vietnam!!

Back in them days we was all like English lions. It was the glory of England that we was hitting parkys but didn't have time to wonder why. The Chingford boys was on about the fucking skinhead but for us it was Shiltzy and Greavzy and the glory of Hurstzy during 1966 when the world was going mental about all that glory it was the full English. We. Thought fuck all about all the other stuff. England and saint George was what we was hitting foreigners for.

The battle of britain 1940 it was never in Britain,,,,,

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What was the Battle of Britain a part of ? Of a much larger "war" that was brought to attention in the Bible, at Revelation 6, whereby it foretold of nationalism and warfare reaching new heights, bringing death and destruction on a level never seen before in history, and is called "The Ride of the Four Horsemen". With the turn of the 20th century, the airplane was invented by the Wright brothers in 1903, that was further developed to do deadly damage from the skies. And later inventions, such as the tank that was invented by the British in 1915 during World War I in response to trench warfare, increased explosiveness of bombs, battleships and the machine gun, became the mainstay that increased the number of deaths exponentially. With the outbreak of World War I on July 28, 1914, the ride of the four horsemen were well on their way, with the rider on "the white horse", Jesus Christ already being given a "crown" to a heavenly government called God's Kingdom just before the advent of World War I so that "he went out conquering and to complete his conquest".(Rev 6:1, 2) His first conquest as king of God's Kingdom was to cast "the dragon" and his angels out of heaven, whom they had access to until this "war" erupted between Jesus (or Michael) and his angels and "the dragon" or Satan the Devil and his angels. This war was between two opposing forces, one with Jesus that God backed, while Satan was diametrically opposite, with him and his demonic angels being violently forced against their will and cast down to the earth (Rev 12:7-9), so that this brought "woe for the earth (or seemingly stable elements of mankind) and for the sea (or restless masses of mankind, always in a state of agitation), because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.”(Rev 12:12; Note: God's personal name is Jehovah, Isa 26:4; also Note: two opposing organizations began almost 6,000 years earlier in the garden of Eden, between "the woman's offspring" and "the serpent's offspring", when Satan rebelled against God's rightful rulership, Gen 3:15) Thus, with the sudden occurrence of World War I in 1914, the world entered into a new era, an era whereby warfare would play a prominent role in human history. Just 21 years after the end of World War I in 1918, Adolf Hitler launched his "blitzkrieg" on Poland in September, 1939, that began World War II, costing the lives of an estimated 60 million + soldiers and civilians.(Note: World War I cost an estimated 21 million lives) At Revelation 6:3, 4, it says that immediately after Jesus as the rider on the "white horse" was "given a crown", that another rider on a "fiery-colored horse" came forth, so that "it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should SLAUGHTER one another, and he was given a great sword." This proved more true that anyone could ever have imagined, for over the course of the 20th century, it has been estimated that human warfare has cost 110 million lives, 3 times the number lost during the previous 19 centuries combined. Soon, "the Ride of the Four Horsemen" will be completed, at what is described as "the war of the great day of God the Almighty", called Armageddon.(Rev 16:14, 16) World War I was called "the war to end all wars" (which it failed in doing), but it is Armageddon, a world situation between "the kings (or political leaders and their supporters) of the earth and God's Kingdom, that will accomplish this (whereby the political system is crushed out of existence, Dan 2:44), so that a "thousand years" era of peace will ensue (Rev 20:4-6), and whereby God's Kingdom will see to it that the earth is transformed into a paradise for "meek" ones as their "inheritance" forever (Ps 37:11, 29), just as Jehovah God originally purposed when he created Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and of which Jesus taught genuine Christians to pray for.(Matt 6:9, 10)

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