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Im sorry but i have an critic its actually bf 109 it isnt me 109

What surprises me we must have known of the German airfields . Yet there’s no mention of British attacks on them we had the aircraft types capable of attacking them such as the Beaufighters and Westland Wirlwind both capable of attacking the aircraft that were stationed there

@@claymarquess.2213 ¹qĺ

Wonder what he is thinking about the disaster that is happening in the world today? What he fought against has come true throughout most of the world.

John Allman Hemingway still going strong in November 2021 aged 102 :)

So sad the rest have died ! We all owe them a lot !

God bless that man

From a "Yank" to my BELOVED allies from "across the pond!!!" I wish to, sincerely "THANK ALL OF YOU" for several things. The obvious: MY LIFE AND, THAT OF MY SON'S!!! Because, were it NOT for YOUR STAUNCH defense of your beliefs homeland, we, ALL ACROSS MY COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES, WOULD NOT BE FREE!!! Next, IF my country existed, we'd be speaking half German and, half Japanese, if YOU BLOKES DIDN'T GIVE THE NAZIS "WHAT FOR!!!!" Lastly, the late Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill said it best as he addressed Parliament AFTER you lads KICKED THE SNOT OUTTA THE LUFTWAFFE IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN: "Never, in the field of human combat was SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW!!!!" Though he was speaking of the British Empire, I dare say that THE FREE WORLD, AND,,THOSE UNDER OCCUPATION OWED THE BRAVE LADS OF THE RAF, AS WELL!!!! Sirs: I salute you!!! As we in US Naval Special Warfare say to one another, as your Royal Army and, our Marine Corps say, "OOH-RAH!!!" we say, "HOOYAH!!!" Thanks, again for my life and, that of my son's!!!!! I can, never, FULLY, repay that ENORMOUS debt I owe you.

speech!

@@dinerouk The Finest Hour speech concludes as follows: " [...] And these very high-class forces from the Dominions will now take part in the defence of the Mother Country. [...] We have fully informed and consulted all the self-governing Dominions, these great communities far beyond the oceans who have been built up on our laws and on our civilization, and who are absolutely free to choose their course, but are absolutely devoted to the ancient Motherland, and who feel themselves inspired by the same emotions which lead me to stake our all upon duty and honour. [...] … and we are now assured of immense, continuous and increasing support ... ; and especially of aeroplanes [Canadian and Australian built Hawker Hurricanes] and pilots from the Dominions and across the oceans … [...] What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. [...] Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour. " Winston S. Churchill, 18 June 1940.

My father died of a Heart Attack whilst flying he did not want to die like his passengers.

DID HE WORK AT THE CURRAHA Watched documentary with commwelth and luftwaffe pilots staying cheak by jowlHaHa the guards would rather help with how to box each other sounds like laughter to me

sounds like a very loveable chap, that grandfather of yours... i salute him!

Irish humour at it's best.. lololol

@AE Devereux It wasn't a novice friendly plane. Not arguing your point. The G was as good as any other fighter it was facing. The only fault I would find is the lack of a bubble canopy for better vision.

I would like to thank Aunt Betty for her service.

You need to write all you can remember down and submit the information to places like rootsweb, family search.com and so on. Don't let the information get lost to time.

I always like the story of a plane (possibly a Mosquito) being delivered by the ATA that "beat up" the airfield superbly. When it landed a woman climbed out. All the men were dumbfounded.

I read that there were 11 women trained to deliver Lancaster’s as well

That’s awesome love those planes

So we give the world Trump?

Thank God that Britain, for all its faults and despite standing alone, successfully resisted a barbaric, psychopathic regime which would have destroyed civilisation and enslaved everybody under its control had it not been stopped. Thank God that President Trump has the strength and courage to continue to fight against evil, toxic, far-left ideologies which are every bit as dangerous as the Third Reich ever was.

@@gerrycoogan6544 Is this what gets you to sleep at night: The belief that we weren't sold out to the Russians? Get a clue, Gerry. We will see famine like never before, rush delivered by the fake president who has opened logging in our national parks. No trees, no rain, Gerry. Get an education, Gerry

@lite azwell - You were sold out to the Russians, alright. By William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barry Hussein Obama, John Brennan, Robert Mueller, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, to name but a few. You have heard of the Uranium One deal? You were also sold out to the Chinese by vice-president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, for one and a half *billion* dollars. And so it goes on. Educate *yourself* while there's still time.

@@liteazwell1913 There's Godwin's Law but a name needed for online comments on any topic somehow involve Trump.

Britannia rules the waves

True but was doing the song line

My Great-grandad fought in the war. My Grandma tells me that when he came home, she hardly recognised him. He was so skinny and you could see his bones. He had been a prisoner to the Germans for 20 months. God bless the ones who were lost. ✨

@@TheRedditMaestro You know, world wars are literally the proof no nation can rule the whole world

@@lilyalgerafi3642 I know

We were fighting to preserve our racist, genocidal empire.

Mark Harrison Coward.

@@markharrison2544 In the Battle of Britain, the British Empire, and the British Commonwealth was fighting to save you. Thank you, A. Gysbert Malan of South Africa (DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar) better known as Sailor Malan and his No. 74 Squadron, RAF.

My grandad refused to ever talk about what he saw in France.. I guess it was there way of coping with the awful things they had to live through.. Till the day he died he never mentioned it not even to nan...

@hicky ??????????????????????????????????????

Had the honor of knowing one of the Polish fighter pilots who served during the Battle of Britain and the War.

@@michaeletters6835 very nice .I'm sure he had some interesting stories to tell.

@@rayman46 Yes. I only knew him casually. We both worked for the former Wallace Computer Services. I worked at a facility in NC and he in IL. He designed equipment and came to our facility many times to set up and instruct myself and a few others on their operation. One day we were working together and we started talking about the military. He had some fascinating stories.

@hicky ...and conservatories on the back of each accommodation block.

@@th-uh2oo you've given me a new battle to analyse, thank you

@array s really?, if we had lost there could have been no Normandy landing, there would have been no north Africa campaign, no convoys to Russia, I suggest you read some real history and not believe the Hollywood version of the war, and I have no idea from what country you hail

@array s History is not a strong point of yours then Mathew? Gettysburg had very little significance to the wider world outside of the USA.

@@timothyphillips5043 Sorry m8ey I'm a Canadian. It was a famous battle. Why must you be so childish and belittle someone else on the internet?

@array s also you're right

It doesn't make sense

Rijo Bomjen Really ? so, can you explain why not?

@@flyinglycandeathforcommuni6292 lol,your comment doesnt make sense

Rijo Bomjen Ok, doesn't make sense, but you can't explain why. May be there is something wrong with you... your content is empty.

@@flyinglycandeathforcommuni6292 still doesn't makes sense

Given the head in the sand attitude of the British Government before the war, I am alway amazed that he was able to get the money and resources to construct the radar and set up and train the tracking stations.

Kudos for recognizing the importance of the whole system. The Germans failed to grasp the impact of the integrated system, although they knew RDF. Is it in this doc, or another, that even multiple telephone lines were used so that a station was not 'down' if a line got cut? Internet before the internet.

@@tommyestridge9301 I attribute that to nothing short of an act of God, it's so unlikely.

Park was the brains behind the radar intercept control system.

You could have mentioned the American Eagle Squadrons, just saying.....

They didn’t tip the balance they made the difference this is not a true or honest document and after the war Poland was betrayed

@@johnblasiak607 we had a left wing, socialist government and leader in Clement Attlee. He was a Stalin lover

they were very small in Number, 97% were British

@@matspurs1629 22% kill rate by the poles my friend. That's a substantial amount

D C so glad to find out he’s going to be on the new £20 notes from 2020. An excellent tribute to a British hero

He is one of Scotland and the UK'S foremost Commanders.

​@Real Thailand He did a lot more. He stuck to single squadron attacks and discarded "The Big Wing" theorists, he rotated squadrons in/out of 11 Group so they got some R & R (Goering did n't do that). He also stood up to the PM relative to holding back squadrons for the attack on Britain he knew was coming

@@glennpickard2239 wrong. The Big Wing was probably the biggest psy ops victory of the battle. It's time had come with the increased production of Spitfires. Unfortunately, they always had to wait for the slower Hurricanes to climb.

All the top air. Force co mmanders said no. B ig wings. Right up.to Dowding. I go with Dowding and Park not Leigh Mallory or Bader.

God bless your grandfather and his friends. You chest swells justifiably with pride to see him. And we all thank him as well. Respects.

🤣🤣🤣🤣..sorry but that made me laugh so much early in the morning as well....Thank you!

Not now! His role is well recognised and praised!

John Cornell Britain went to war to stop the German take over of Europe then the UK. No need to ban them from the Victory Parade. The Brits should be grateful there was someone holding the jerry back at Dunkirk and adding to the experienced pilot numbers in the BofB. OK sorry will rephrase the statement. Only a half-hearted protest against Russia. Although Palestine is another issue.

LE Bear There was a General Election in the UK on July 5th 1945. Churchill was voted out of office and Clem Atlee became PM. The Victory Parade was in 1946! Why do you think Churchill had ANYTHING to do with the Poles being barred? Almost reminds me of Margaret Thatcher taking the salute at the Falklands Victory Parade in 1982. She "apparently" forgot to invite the Queen? Also, the Russians had OCCUPIED Poland and East Europe by 1945. What do you suggest should have been done to evict them: continue the war?

Terry Shulky This was told to me by my father who was a Polish Flyer in the RAF during the war. History is written by the victories and I tend to believe a first hand account rather then what is presented to me by (as history has shown) a lying government.

@@who-gives-a-toss_Bear Do you still maintain that Churchill banned the Poles from the Victory Parade?

@James Henderson WHY? It was Germany who from the mid 1930s was gobbling up territory in central Europe and ignoring warnings. Would I be mistaken if I wonder if you think concentration camps and extermination camps were holiday camps for the regimes opponents?

Most of these men were sent back to their countries of origin and faced "reeducation" under Stalinist rule.

@@johnivkovich8655 Not true, those pilots were not 'sent back' after the war. Those who went back to Polish or Czech commmunist states did so of their own volition.

Yes, about 20% of the pilots were non British.

@@kieranororke620 the Resetlement act of 1947 was a face saving measure. After the Yalta Conference those who went back to Poland and Czechoslovakia did so knowing that they would be sent to gulags but hoped their families would not suffer the same fate. Those who stayed in England knew that their families were sacrifice. 30 committed suicide hoping to prevent reprisal.

@@johnivkovich8655 Thousands went home, but tens of thousands refused to do so. Indeed the post war mining industry in Britain became entirely dependent on Polish labour in order to prperly function. Whether the 1947 settlement was face saving is a matter of perspective. It hardly changed the reality of the new Soviet eastern block or made weatern immediate post war attitudes to the Soviets demands look any better, but it did provide a much needed workforce in Britain. No doubt many Poles and Czechs felt & some still feel a sense of betrayal after Munich, the lack of aid to Poland in 1939, the seeming abandonment of the Warsaw uprising, and the Yalta agreements, but the reality was there was often little to be done; it was the 'Realpolitik' of 300 Soviet divisions in eastern Europe that decided the issue. The Attlee government certainly thought they should go back & rebuild their countries but they refused to compel them to do so, so no they did not send anyone back forcibly from Britain. Eastern Europeans caught working for the Germans was another matter.

MY BROTHER WAS ABOUT 12 IN THE WAR HE SEE A DOG FIGHT OVER NORTH LONDON

Almost the same as you, I was bn '37 and lived between AVRoe's Lancaster Bomber Factory and numerous shadow factories producing Aero engines in Leeds and the great TANK Factory at Kirkstall Forge Nr Leeds.

'Look mummie... There is an aeroplane up in the sky'

That's the TOTAL number of aircrafts available to the two forces, Germany couldn't put all 2000 of them to attack Britain but barely a fraction of it. Also add to it the fact Britain just defended itself rather than ever attacking. So in reality, Britain was at advantage if pure numbers are concerned. Trust me dude, every single one of these documentaries out there just portray USA or UK as invincible armies when in truth Germany was BY FAR the strongest if single countries were concerned.

@Real Thailand Brush up on your history of the Battle of Britain, mate. I. Gruppe of Zerstörergeschwader 76 used external fuel tanks... And Bf 110s flying from French coastal airfields didn't need auxiliary fuel tanks given their normal on-board capacity. And RAF pilots were in action from day one of the French campaign.

@Real Thailand If you rely on Wiki, then you are looking at the wrong things. To state this: "...the 110 was pretty useless as a fighter,..." shows that you are looking at decades old incorrect information. Research has moved on since the 1970s... This is interesting: "...During the past 40 yrs I've read every book/ watched every video on WW11 that I can find..." Can you be more specific? I would be MOST interested to know which Battle of Britain books you have read. Many inexperienced pilots were fed into the Battle on both sides. I presume you know as much about the German side as the RAF side...?

@Real Thailand I wouldn’t call bombing countries with observers airforces experienced.

@@AbhishekKumar-fl8bw We where building new ones all the time also, the spitfire had many upgrades during the war.

Sam Sabastian Ok sorry, one little word wrong, thank you

Can never be challenged

Human conflict....Nice post though!

They were one squadron among very many during the Battle of Britain...

@Albert Clarke 303 were the highest 'claimers', but modern research shows that their claims did not equate to actual German losses. In recent years 603 are considered to be the most accurate, and highest claimers, of the Battle of Britain.

No, the Poles broke enigma code, one month before ww2 Poland gave the knoledge how to brake enigma code, to British and French.

Flight decks aren't angled. They are and were horizontal on American ships.

@@jarekbednarz7721 , yes they handed over the Enigma device, and until 1940 the poles had broken it, once the Germans changed it the brits had to start again. But this time the Germans had made it impossible to break, or so they thought.

In return you gave us Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix Duke Ellington, Little Richard, Elvis, Buddy Holly...a fair exchange I think :-)

@@robertdore9592 let's not forget Gene Vincent :)

You haven't seen all of it, this is part 1 of 3. I have the dvd of this documentary, this is just the opening exchanges of the battle.

Thats just what i would say if i accidently walked into a mosque.

Many thanks to the many other nationalities that died saving British soil, with out them England would have been taken with ease

@Zuhdi Murich yes they did, twin train and bus bombings, driving cars and trucks at innocent people walk g along with their family. Then we can go further, twin towers, airplanes, night clubs, etc etc etc.

@@jupitorious7925 hardly with ease, but yes they needed more pilots

The RAF was almost as large as the Luftwaffe in 1940.

I think in 2020 we all can also remember the German pilot in The Luftwaffe just kids as well , I respect the order and bravery of soldiers of all nations . Spesielt over 75 year later.

We've been invaded anyway... and pretty much conquered.

@@charleswood7001 No the UK has not. Not as a United People and Nation. Parts of England have been invaded yes. The only reason Normandy had any success was due to the fact that the Anglo Saxon Army was depleted after just defeating the Viking King. Never has the UK as a United people been defeated.

@@CommonSenserules1981 Yes, you are right in the sense of military invasions but I am referring to proxy, stealth invasions. The people here are not united at all, Brexit shows that. The media is extremely globalist and progressive leftist. Traditions, culture, history of the actual British people is constantly under attack and being demonized. Children in schools and unis are taught their heritage was bad, to be ashamed. Today people are being jailed for wrong think, our capital, London is now minority native British and you want to tell me everything is rosy in our garden?

"He was treated very badly after the Battle of Britain." Whereupon he promptly and increasingly became a lunatic. P.S. Dowding was a brilliant military thinker and commander. I'm not knocking his military service. However, his becoming an eccentric nut later in life doesn't fill me with confidence that his military career and authority should have increased later in life. He did his bit and he did it well. He served his purpose. The British government were probably right in cutting his career short there.

@John Cornell You seem rather deluded and out of touch. At the last census, 2011, the white population was recorded at 85%. Back in the 1980s it was 98%, still. Today, with the ceaseless, mass immigration, much from the third world, 500.000+ per year at times, thanks to the evil Tony Blair, Theresa May etc, I dread to think what the demographics are now. I would estimate we are down to 80%, with all the illegals who knows, maybe 75%. You are utterly out of touch on your road trip through sparsely populated areas that have been largely untouched by mass immigration and are still mostly white, British. Try another road trip through North London or Bradford, Birmingham, Luton etc. Get in to the real world. Most of the population live in urban areas, not along your rural, road trip. The Romans didn't change the ethnic make up of Britain much at all, barely impacted it and besides, they are Europeans, Italians mostly with the same haplotype DNA as us, Rb1. Very similar ethnicity and culture etc. A person from Mogadishu or Karachi is infinitely different, culturally and genetically.

I suggest you watch the iTV drama 'Piece of Cake' about one particular Spitfire Squadron, and how during those 6 episodes the original few became fewer.

@@stephendunmore6487 Cheers, I'll check it out.

A message to both of you, guys - there is a few good docs of BoB, from a very few Polish /famous anyway/ fighters. If only they can speak under Stalin's boots... and other impediments...

The "LEFTIES" would never allow Britains greatness to be taught in schools....It would upset the Muslims .

May your God Bless Y!

@Mahboud Khezaei. "don’t forget that Britain" ? they do not care... @Peter Fairhurst so... England goes to war because of Poland , you say ... USSR invades Poland as well : England ? crickets... Later that year USSR invades Finland Another democratic country. England ? crickets again... then USSR invades Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, all democracies : England ? crickets all the way ... you ask: "Would you have done that to us?" Then the Battle of Britain arrives : ... more than 1/4th of the RAF was Polish and Czech pilots. One in four ! Yes they did fought and died for you. And finally the end of the war comes. ....Poland, ....Czechoslovakia ? given to the USSR , more millions of Poles nd Czechs vanished in Soviet pogroms. The Polish and Czech pilots that fought for you, England ? You extradited them to the USSR, ... almost all were executed on spot upon arrival !!! Then the entire East Europe would fall under Soviet control. 10 pre-War Democratic countries , were gifted to the USSR by you , England ! And more millions would die because of ? well ....British ( and USA) pride and prejudice, I suppose ?

@ Peter Fairhurst Well it kind of is: UK followed it's own political interests As any country would have done. but ,It is the absolute disrespect (like your answer) for thousands of Poles that fought and died for you, UK... and then after, you send them to USSR to be executed or die slowly in Soviet gulags...

@@krixpop England? No such state has existed since 1707.

@ nuff said Agree with both your comments. "the germans would have treated you so much better if you had not escaped" For Sure ! Does that excuse the Ally that you fought and bled for , to sent you at the end of the war to your Arch Enemy to die in horrific ways? @Justin B The Polish people paid millions of lives two times, what am I saying : three times: 1st Under the Germans AND the Soviets (1 year ) 2nd Under the Germans alone ( 5 years ) 3rd Under the USSR and the Communism ( 45 years ) Tell us Poland : How many did you lose ? @ Martin James well boomer , who would have thought ?! _____ Nations do not have friends , they have interests ...

@@krixpop lose

There are thousands of languages here.

We speak American

@@pittsburghpirate58 you are american speaking english.

EngTech84. Sounds like you speak the language of imbecile.

@@christsrevenge8030 Thanks to their efforts, their great grand children will be speaking Arabic or Punjabi. But at least we beat der evil nutzies!

poor woman i have false teeth gordon

So glad the United States bankrupted the UK.

Stupid little child

In reality the RAF was almost as large as the Luftwaffe in 1940.

@@markharrison2544 nobody asked for your false information

yep, it was not radar alone, worldhistory.us/military-history/adlerstag-knickebeins-and-bletchey-park-britain-ultra-and-the-battle-of-britain-1940.php

@@rci_adl5486 Good stuff, Michael. Thank you very much.

The secret of Enigma came from Poland.

They wouldn't have done it if Justin Trudeau had been PM .. He would be too worried about hurting someone's feelings or "sending the wrong message"

Canada played a vital part in the war against the Nazis. In the air, at sea and on land Canadians did their country proud.

CANADA WAS A GREAT CONTRY TO BE ALLIED TO STILL

@Rosida Andriyana Useless? If it wasn't for the Americans land lease to Russia, and us joining the war, Europe would be Germany today.

@Derek Stairs That's a possibility. Anything's possible. Who knows.

This documentary is actually part 1, there are actually 3 episodes of this, detailing the later weeks of the battle and how we won, it's on sale on dvd as I have the dvd and have watched it on numerous occasions

I heard of a few Icelanders who’m went to England to fight just like what early Americans had done. I didn’t know about that precipice case though.

@RumbleOfDrums I've also heard of that. The other one I liked was the story of a FAA Swordfish pilot in Italy who lashed a German motorcycle to the underside of his aeroplane and liberated it!

"Never before has so much been owed to so few" Churchill

Bomber command deserve a mention, they were night bombing luftwaffe airfields in France and the low countries during the Battle of Britain.

Had they invaded Britain afterwards, there would be no means of organising an invasion of Europe to fight the Germans, as there would be no place to do it!

The change to the fuel system (stopgap as it was) really helped both. I can't imagine the guilt the one man who was so anti-fuel injection must have lived with over how much a single fools stubborn dislike of fuel injection cost.

The Spit was upgraded to cannons after the battle

@Derek Stairs "...I seldom hear 'other nationals' ever mentioned when the history of WW2 is told..." You're not reading the right books, then...

@Derek Stairs watch the film this documentry is based on, the Polish pretended they didn't understand the squadron leaders orders & after the ensuing battle were given a full operational wing

I was in form 3/4 after the war and I'll be damned If I can recall history lessons which concerned the war, as by that period (still with rationing) people wanted to forget the war.Many of the nations who assisted and the menfolk of the (then) Colonies, e.g Ian Smith of Rhodesia were totally overlooked) and see what occured to Rhodesia, with Ex Fighter Pilot Ian Smith as its leader, made redundant by the British Govt., Disgraceful.

Of course they were Super. Some just like to quibble.

The title of this video literally says "Britain stands alone"

when i was 13 i was so jealous of not being a spitfire pilot i was always so bored and dreamed of it

my brother in london saw a dog fight between a spitfire and a german plain in central london

I always wanted to bee in a ww2 fighter .been interesting in ww2 from a young age and that dream has been there all the time soaring over the fields with the sun in my back high up looking for victims.

I would add Head of RAF Bomber Command, Arthur ' Bomber' Harris to the 20 quid note.

@@stephendunmore6487 OK by me - No Win No Gain

@@stephendunmore6487 *That would sure start the 'Snowflakes' "totally omg awesome totally cool" **_Who is he by the Way ?_*

They would have no idea who he is.

We've bred a very weak generation who are prepared to mortgage our country and their future in return for Prosecco and Skiing holidays.

The US actually SOLD Britain 'materials', it didn't give them away. Thanks a bunch - we've only recently finished repaying the 💰

robin gibbs of the bee gees pop brothers was on about it all the time

The US also helped Gemany. (Henry Ford)

Make sure you read "First Light".

Pity we fought the wrong enemy

@@silverbullet2008bb Oh l am well aware, the same people who are destroying our world today, when it could have been so better, all part of the plan

Germany had no navy and their air force wasn't much. Small 2-engine bombers. I don't think they could have ever pulled off an attempted invasion despite their great army. Certainly not while they had their hands full with Russia. Look at the huge fleet and air support used by the allies in Normandy. Germany didn't have anything like that. However, they could inflict a lot of logistical and psychological damage, and they did.

Stuffy Dowding's my fave hero of the early part of WW2. Pity he was shoddily treated by Churchill, listening too much to tactically and strategically misguided, or downright ambitious, others in Fighter Command.

@@mikebritcom3171 RAF bombers in 1940 weren't up to much until the 4-engined bombers came in. The Wellingtons and Hampdens were badly mauled by the Luftwaffe when used during the day and the Whitley was only used to drop leaflets for the majority of the Phoney War.

Absolutely Correct! It was a Team effort of the British Empire! Good Lad.

Only 7 Americans did.

yes and 1 of them for sure found the Bismark

@@towgod7985 Absolutely incorrect....Squadron 303 saved london..British pilots had 1 week flying time before London raid...Look it up on you tube...read one of the books..it was the Polish pilots who out gunned the Germans and save London,...then were thrown under the bus after the war..a true travesty of justice on England and USA part...Totally ungrateful,shameful conduct from Limeys and yanks.......Thank you Poland, with out you we would be speaking German today...

Polish, Americans, Free French -- people from all over the Empire! LOL ( :

they also had radar

still out numbered 4 - to 1 spitfire.

I think that the code breaking would be developed and used later than 1940 so would be of little use then, but was invaluable later, shortening the war by some 2 years, some say 3 years!

Don't forget Susannah York in stockings! She was hot in those days. She even looked good with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.................... 'DON'T YOU YELL AT ME MR WARWICK!!'

Robert Ewalt Good movie watched it several times

Try You Tube for WW1 FIGHTER ACE AND PETROLHEAD REMEMBERING ALBERT BALL ....just one young man that went home ...a story still to be told

The 40 days and 40 nights of rain that's attributed to Biblical times is considered a typical Welsh summer :)

@@sean640307 In the later 1960s and several times in the 1970s I went mountain climbing in North Wales. It was nowhere as wet as the Lake District in the early 1960s.

Russia has their two winning generals; janvier and fevrier, but woe betide anyone planning to invade Britain relying on clear blue skies in summer.

@nuff said P-51 =great design..................Rolls Royce Merlin=great power............put them together and IMHO the greatest fighter of WWII.

Don't forget the Hurricane mate :-) This was THE workhorse fighter of the RAF.

God does not exist.

Go away

We shall never forget!

I agree: that was a fantastic scene. The British Ambassador was played by Ralph Richardson though.

We (the U.S.) have them but voters keep being fooled ... as Trump conned so many. For example, Trump kept saying his health care would be "sooo much better" and no one asked for any details. The voters just believed him, those who voted for him.

We've got a power-mad Churchill biographer (readable, in a Boy's Own way) but not really a dictator; just tells people what they want to hear. I really do worry if another Roosevelt would get elected. Concerned about the disadvantaged despite being from a privileged background (hypocrite), dog-whistle "not able to stand up to..." headlines, unhealthy leanings towards what might be right rather than popular yet agonizing over the consequences of momentous decisions on ordinary young people. Nope, can't see that winning a UK election (or even party leadership).

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