Thats time well spent on such a day!...Gunit

Cheers bud.

Let it go. He was 35 in 1941 when the war started making him at the very upper limit of who they would accept. He was given a deferment because of his age and the fact he was the sole supporter of his wife and six kids.

That movie is up there with the greats for sure, i have the directors commentary version to upload but im sure its copyrighted, so i have to see what happens.

yeah, that was not good; Henry Fonda playing TR who was a short guy was not so good either

Interesting observation. Ive just read his bio and noticed he was involved in the landings at Salerno, my grandad was wounded there and was transferred to a hospital in Wales, where he met my grandmother. As with so many veterans, we didnt know anything of his wartime experiences until he passed in 1992.

@@UFOBobTV It sure is one of the great movies.

Glad you enjoyed it bud!

Depth charges haha which didnt go booom. As for the editing, its a tricky game for me, but i feel progress in the right direction is being made. Im having fun, so thats whats matters!

Welcome shipmate!

Its the currant (Unstable) Beta testing version, no mods. 👍

Ill be going home to Suffolk this weekend, going to visit the 390th bomb group museum in Framlingham. Pay my respect.

Indeed!

Battle of Britain was

@simonfitton7536 NO it wasn't actually Simon indeed if it hadn't been for the large number's of pilots from many other countries we couldn't have carried on and would have faced a very uncertain and difficult outcome en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-British_personnel_in_the_RAF_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 (and 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).

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Thanks for your time and effort in this comment, much appreciated...Gunit.

There is a great program on R J Mitchell, worth watching all the way through. Around 16 minutes in it describes the meeting of Mitchell and Royce. Some can argue this is where the Battle of Britain was won. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9mAkpqG0b3SpGw.htmlfeature=shared

You never lost the memorie of that book! Thanks for your comment 👍

Ill check, i cant see shite without my specks lol

You are correct, you are now my official channel moderator haha

@@Grandparlour nah, just a passer-by, as I’ve said, I really appreciated the thumbnails of the great escape walkthroughs.

I'm joking, I just really appreciate your input!

Yup. Its difficult finding new stuff to upload, copyright is a nightmare 😫

Another 3 episodes to go in this mini series.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I have The world at War series, ill see if i can upload it. Its been years since i last watched it.

Great memories for you, thanks for sharing them!

Yes we owe the Canadians soldiers sailors and airman so much, to come all this way, from a safe Canada, God bless them. My wife,,, Londoner, uncle Reg Charlton, die with them on the Dieppe raid, he was 20, he is on the Portsmouth war memorial

The moment they realised what fighting against the Russians in WW2 ment, priceless.

The Heinkle 111s were spanish built and still being used as training aircraft in 1969. The planes that were blown up were models or remote control planes.

@@Grandparlour Wow fascinating I wonder if they were built using German blue prints I wish they would of shown it

German aircraft were all from the Spanish airforce and recently retired. They were either German originals supplied during WW2 or built under license in Spain. CASA had to use alternatives to Messerschmitt engines as parts and manufacture ceased in 1945, so they used RR Merlins instead. Aircraft demolished on the ground were ones collected from scrap yards. Some would be taxied using motorcycle engines before demolition. Those demolished in the air were large models eg all the Stukas.

@@michaelmazowiecki9195 Very interesting thanks for the info I love this movie so much

That was probably Skeets Kelly.

I stayed in Saffron Walden 20 years ago, Flying Legends weekend

Both he and Park were badly treated by the Whitehall establishment. Dowding was past retirement age so was "put out to pasture". Park was dumped in Malta.

@@michaelmazowiecki9195 and the Polish pilots who fought so bravely and doggedly during the Battle of Britain were largely forgotten..... bloody foreigners ...

145 of them, 68 serving in British squadrons and 77 in the two Polish squadrons, 303 in 11 Group out of Northolt and 302 in 12 Group out of Duxford (part of Bader's Big Wing)