50 something teen who loves gaming and a new found classroom of editing. My previous hobby of 8 ball pool is coming to an end after 35 years of representing Counties and local teams along the way. This channel is just my scrap book of topics, games and other related that i enjoy. So thanks for stopping by regards, Gunit....
The big time people, like the producer or the director, who make these spectacular big time films, do not care that the average movie goer believes why these films were so great, was because of the actors in the film. The people who make these blockbusters feel fulfilled when the film starts and the credits roll on the screen and their name come in the very beginning of the film. That being the case, they know their name will live on after they're dead and buried. They're satisfied that the people in the know like film historians, know that they're the reason why the film was so successful.
Got a right bolloking at the age of 10, for bunking school to bike up to Jersey Airport to watch some of the aircraft stage through from Spain. Worth it though !😆
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.
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.
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!
@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).
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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-msP_7UlWnt8.htmlfeature=shared
I had a book about the making of the film The Battle of Britain, pretty much what this video is about, given to me by my sister for Christmas 1968. Sadly I got rid of it when I was travelling from Britain to overseas some 9 years later
This was very special to view. I was just 8 years old when my Uncle took me to see this when it came out. Some of its scenes really haunted me. This film was epic for my elder's generation. When I began my military career in 1979 with the Canadian armed forces; "Battle of Britain day" was still an annually celebrated parade event. Together with this film and the Thame's television series "The World at War" which came out not long after, really propelled forward my interest in military history. Thanks to clips like this, that is sure to continue.
When I saw this movie in 1969, I was a flying instructor in the RCAF on jets. The majority of the older pilots I worked with were WWII veterans. Over the years, I got to know a couple of Spitfire pilots, one of whom (Duke Warren), flew in the Battle of Britain, as well as the raid on Dieppe. His twin brother, Bruce, was killed in 1959, while testing a CF-100. In the late 1970s, Duke, retired as a Wing Commander, and was my neighbour for many years. The only time he would talk about the war, was after the Remembrance Day parade every year, after a few libations while at the Mess. The other veterans I worked with, and for, flew everything from Hurricanes, Tempests, Mosquitoes, to bombers ( Wellington, Halifax, and Lancaster). It was an amazing time. The RCAF Hurricane ace Stocky Edwards, also lived a long life in Comox, after retirement, and passed on in 2022. I got to see a few of the ME-109s, that were used in this movie, fly at the Confederate Air Force field In Harlingen TX. ( in 1972.) While I was on exchange with the USAF, and based in Laredo, I was flying one of the 4 T-38s from our squadron that did the opening flypast at one of their big celebrations. Afterwards, we got the cooks tour of the museum, and watched the flying displays over the weekend. It was a once in a lifetime experience, getting to see all the old warbirds most of them in flying condition. Sorry, for prattling on, but this video, brought back a lot of memories.. .
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
20:20 - a Spaniard who fought alongside the Nazis, reminiscent of that recent debacle in the Canadian Parliament with the Ukrainian who also fought alongside the Nazis.
Leigh-Mallory (with Douglas Bader) and his Big Wings were a joke - took far too long to form up and hit the Germans as needed. Dowding was never given the credit and rewards he deserved for commanding the Battle of Britain, which was to Churchill's eternal shame.
It was pleasing to see how accurate it is. Last week I watched the series "World on Fire" which wasn't too bad except the Hurricane pilots were taking off without their helmets and oxygen on while talking to each other! Those making movies and television series often have no idea how basic inaccuracies like that damage the reputation of the show. Bit like all the sprinkler heads going off in a building at the same time even though there's a fire only under one sprinkler.
"Up till then all targets were military" Funny how history is repeating itself today. Another country is targeting mainly civilian targets, and losing the war.
It was partly due to my seeing this film and the Dambusters when I was 10 that made my mind up to join the RAF as an aircraft fitter. I later also became a pilot. We owe so much to 'The Few'. Thank you to all those brave people and the fallen. " Never in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many - to so few" Winston Churchill.
Bar none one of the best War Movies ever made hands down. I wanted to know how they built the Hienkle bombers they never said there is no way in hell even back in 69 they came up with even one of them. How did they show the blown up planes in mid air and the plane crashes why didnt they go into how the planes were built? Damn I want to know how they pulled allof this off?
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.
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.
The cameraman for the second film unit, Jack, gave a talk some years ago to amateur film makers in Gloucester. The full sized mock up of a German bomber was suspended on a cable and then slid down to crash into the radar tower. The mock up was destroyed and could not be used for any other shots. A helicopter, with side door open, for another cameraman filming out of the open door provided the shot from the bomber point of view which could then be intercut. Apparently that cameraman insisted that he would not be strapped in.
One of my favorites ever since its release. It could not ever be recreated in what is now the 21st century. One of the reasons I only watch older movies.
My mother was plotter at Bentley Priory in 1940. In 2000 I was working at Marconi, might have been BAES by then at that Grove just around the corner. The local RAF association arranged a visit to the House and Dowding's office. Unfortunately not the bunker as then it was still in use. I went on the visit and took my mother a long and my father who was a Dunkerque evacuee. The famous letter from Dowding to Churchill is framed in Dowding' office, laid out as it was in 1940. Eighteen years later I took my mother to the Uxbridge Bunker and although not where she worked the staff were interested to meet a actual plotter from the Battle of Britain.
The Hurricane is such a beautiful aircraft! We must thank the fear Goering had for hitler.... and the very arrogance of hilter for not listening to Milch. BoB is an outstanding film!
This documentary was first shown by ITV in the UK in 1968 the same year it was made..I first saw it when I hired it on 16mm from FDA's film library..The documentary was shot on 16mm film..
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Adolf Galland, the German ace served as advisor during the filming.
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Dowding saved England but was dismissed thereafter. A shame.
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.
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@@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)
I was at school when they made the film, one day as we sat in a first story classroom, we heard a lot of aircraft looking up a formation of aircraft from the film flew over lowestoft. When the Film was released I went with my Father, ex RAF air gunner , to watch the film. the following year I joined the RAF, Two years later I joined the BBMF as ground crew. Taking my father to see some of the Spitfires and Hurricanes we sat and watched in the Film.
Thank you so much for posting this. However did you get such a good copy. Watched over this recent Christmas 23/24 more by accident than design, this is just wonderful. Takes me back to going with a friend when this came out, so I guess 1970, 71 latest … only I’m onto old enough for that possibly to have happened 😮
was all this invain??,we are being invaded now by woke leftie terrorist sympathisers and muslim extremists,its pathetic,these brave young boys who gave their lives for our freedom are turning in their graves,god bless them❤🙏🙏
