The Battle of Britain was irrelevant as Hitler never intended to invade the UK. The Blitz was in response to the RAF bombing cities and towns in Germany.

Yes, more episodes please. Maybe some coverage of the ground crews without whom the pilots couldn’t do their job. Brilliant

...18000 kiwis lost WW2??..mostly around the Mediterranean, Greece, Crete, N.Africa, Scilly, Italy, Baltics..

@@teawaruaedwards274 No in total we lost 7000 in many theaters, still very sad as NZ only had less than 2 million ppl population in WW2 times 😌🙏

@@TheFunkhouser New Zealand should have remained neutral, like Ireland.

Taken after?

​@@_-Nyx-_But tge point is, they didn't EXIST. during the BoB

True. Most RAF Bombers were obsolete Blenheims and Fairy Battles.

Or view on a PC that has an adblocker installed and enjoy the internet as it was originally meant to be enjoyed.

Yawn......

What is a "Pom"?

@@billytwoknives6495 It's bogan speak for an English person.

@@CB-fz3li Thanks.

Simon , get over yourself m8 .

Bf 109: as explained in doco: shortlegged with bad rear visibility. Ugly too.

If I had 5 minutes with Churchill, I would want to.have a go about Poland. And Alan Turing - and the artificial famine in India, 1943

We have had a guts full of moaning Poles. The Brits only declared war on Germany because Poland could not defend herself in 1939. The Poles were experienced pilots but no more brave the pilots of the other Alied nations. In reality the Poles only made a tiney percentage of Alied personel durring the battle

@@georgielancaster1356 Turing's role was massively overstated, like the role of Bletchley Park itself.

@@timphillips9954 Poland prevented the UK and France from allying with the USSR in mid-August 1939. Backing the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 was fatal for Britain's interests. To this day Russia blames Poland for World War II.

You got the wrong channel, mate

​He certainly did.

1. British ships in the channel were being attacked during daylight hours. 2. DH Mosquitos were not in production at the time of the battle of Britain, its prototype only took its first flight in November 1940.

Or indeed the Czechoslovakian pilot who singlehandedly achieved a full 30% of that particular Polish squadron's kills.....

Spitfire equipped squadrons 603, 609 and 41 all shot down more than 303 which was the highest scoring Hurricane unit in the battle.

@@huzzism Polish squadron took out 126 air craft but the 609 squadron alone destroyed 146

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Poland had invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, before annexing more Czech land in March 1939.

What about the Welsh who more impact than the Poles?

Booh who

What are you, four years old?@@harryparsons2750

YOu know, this is a serious topic. For you to bring toddler level garbage into it is obnoxious. You will probably never understand that.@@harryparsons2750

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Your loss.

Yeah, 20 secs later.

The FULL weight of the Luftwaffe, that had previously wiped out all air forces arrayed against it, was sent packing with its tail between its legs by the RAF ALONE. Read it and weep soft lad !!!!

Hampden, Whittley, Manchester, Lysander, Sterling,

Excellent posts Dennis !!!

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Thanks. I find in WW II discussions that there is a general lack of understanding of Britain's importance in the War specifically and the War in the West in general. I don't mean to dismiss the vital importance of the Ostkrieg, but as part of the effort to demean the West in modern, largely left-wing historiography, the importance of the War in the West has become lost.

​@@dennisweidner288 I'm normally very British, and not given to "banging one's own drum", but as you say the level of ignorance, and increasingly the amount of disdain directed at Britain and her vital contribution forces me to highlight our primary importance and applaud your efforts to detail our national efforts. All the best !!!

Nurse.... NURSE !!!!

MY word you ARE on a blitzkreig across the BoB threads.

What about the amount of material being sent from the US to Germany during WW2?

@@timphillips9954 Excerpt from declaration of war on the United States of America: "(FDR) came back on the scene and on the 4th November, 1939, engineered the reversion of the Neutrality Law so as to suspend the ban on the export of arms, in favor of a one-sided delivery of arms to Germany's opponents." Virtual Library Speech Declaring War Against the United States

@@timphillips9954 The Blockade of Germany (1939-1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany - and later by Fascist Italy - in order to sustain their war efforts.

Earphones, with a chest microphone.

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 a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate 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 pilots from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 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 Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white British descent). P.S There were NO Greek, Dutch or Danish pilots in RAF Fighter Command during the battle of Britain.

A lot of the German public CHOSE to believe widely shown propaganda about a "resettlement town" in Czechoslovakia called Terezin (or Theresienstadt in German) which they were told was where the Jews were being sent to live peacefully, cordoned off from the rest of the "aryan greater reich". The truth is that it was just another part of the transit system for transporting the Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

300000 jews voted for hitler 10 years after Mein Kampf was a best seller. He would restore order and security, and look at all those roads! Humans are very good at ignoring things they don't want to see. Till it's too late.

@jmrodas9 And where Poland, the Netherlands and France failed, the British a long with the Russians stopped them. 😏 Truly fills me with me pride.

Or indeed the families deprived of loved ones. P.S HUNDREDS of British civilians were killed as "collateral damage" while the luftwaffe attacked airfields and installations around Britain. Seems its only Germans getting killed that gets modern day lefties shouting "warcrimes!!!".

It was a perfume factory converted to the war production of aircraft parts - next door to Croydon Airport

@@nightjarflying So the old olfactory factory manufactured perfume bombs what? Can you provide a Lynx?😅

@@tomobedlam297 I lost my grandmother & my mother's sister to that incident so why don't you F Off with your disrespect.

Agreed. I like the enthusiasm of the production but the accompanying photos in both parts leave a lot to be desired. In the end I gave up on it

Patton was an idiot. The Yanks have never been a friend of the Brits,

@@timphillips9954 BRITISH-AMERICAN WAR CO-OPERATION (HISTORY) HC Deb 24 March 1947 vol 435 cc1000-51000 Mr. Keeling (Twickenham) I too wish to refer to Anglo-American relations, but on quite a different matter, which has nothing to do with trade. I want to put briefly the case for opening negotiations with the United States for a joint history of British-American co-operation during the war. When the Prime Minister went to see Mr. Truman about 16 months ago, I wrote to him to suggest that he should take the opportunity to broach this proposal in America, but he was unable to do so then. I hope the Home Secretary, who, I understand, has been asked by the Prime Minister to reply this evening, will be able to say the matter will be reconsidered, either now or later. British-American co-operation in the war was unique in history. As Lord Halifax said in his farewll speech at Washington, never before had two countries fought a war with so great a unity of military, industrial, and political effort. Two nations with sharply differing temperaments and outlook performed, in partnership, a miracle.

Do you mean like the woke generation is doing now in Ukraine.😂

What do you mean, REAL men? Like Bob Cowell? Engineering degree, racing car driver, spitfire pilot, father of two, POW of the Germans? 1st male to female trans in Britain, to complete the surgery, done, by the way, by Sir Harold Gillies, WW1 surgeon and father of plastic surgery, cousin of Archie McIndoe, who famously developed the surgery for burnt pilots. Sir Harold was convinced that Roberta had every right to request that surgery. Not a foolish man, not someone to lightly undertake such work, post war. Or are you making a reference to gay men? Like Wing Commander Ian Gleed. DFC. DSO Croix de Guerre Belgium AND France Much loved and respected leader of men, known for personal coaching of new arrivals, tricks he had learnt as a Battle of Britain pilot. Yes, one of the Few. Wrote a memoir, and publisher had to say, too obvious you are homosexual, so they invented a fiance, Pamela, who was a great surprise to his family. KIA Tunisia, publisher got bags of mail addressed to Pamela, hoping to comfort her in her distress. Ian would have laughed. All the men knew, but nobody gave Ian away, as it was illegal and seen as a dangerous and rather shameful secret, back then. It wasn't until relatively recently, one of the young pilots he trained, straight from Public School, told, as an elderly man, of their brief affair. He told, as a man comfortable with.himself, ashamed of nothing. Ian had no reason to be shamed by being gay. As the old chap said, "I went to a good public school. Going to bed with chaps was a regular thing." I would guess you have absolutely no idea how many exciting heroes in intelligence, air force, army and navy, would raise an eyebrow at your REAL MEN remark. To all of them, you owe an apology. I have researched for over 15 years. I know of the Pacific island in WW2, that was THE posting to go for, if gay. Americans and Australians. The American boys were lavish with gifts of their rations and money when sent on R and R in Oz. SO MANY gay men on front lines, the.'realest' men you could find. WW1, gays everywhere, again. Pre 1910, huge scandal in German aristocracy and senior military. King Edward VII was taunting Willie, in Germany, about all his gay relatives and military. Whilst Edward's sister had married a gay Duke and was SPITTING angry about it. And Edward was hoping to keep his own military and aristocracy embarrassing gay scandal linked with the Irish Crown Jewels theft, a secret from Willie, the Kaiser. Gay men all over the place. Like they were a good percentage of the male population in EVERY generation!

Get a PC and an adblocker... NO ads !!! MAAAAAAARVELLOUS !!!

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 buddy I got an ad blocker on my phone. Doesn't mean they won't spend 4 minutes talking about a sponsor. Also do you really think oc is the only thing with stuff like that?

@@bigchees3850 I specified a PC as opposed to a smart TV or even a rooted smartphone, though as you say a mac would do just as well.