I am so grateful 🙏 to your grandad ❤ for the sacrificed he gave 🙏 ❤ for my freedom and the other countries pilots and British pilots too god bless you all thank you much love ❤
So sad that many were betrayed and shipped back to Poland to live under Stalin's tyranny. Those of us who care, salute your Grandfather and his comrades!
One freezing cold icy road snowing morning I get a phone call to go to the funeral of a pilot who survived WW2 as few folk were attending due to him been a loner. It was a honour to be at the funeral of the bravest man I ever met.
As someone who has both British and Polish blood, I'm very proud of the brave airmen of both countries who defended Britain against the German aggressors in WW2.
As a young cop in Sunderland about 1990 i went to see an old couple who had their shed broken into. Over tea i noticed a large picture of a spitfire on the wall. "That was my plane" the old fella said.. He d Caught me off guard and i felt like saluting him. One of the few. Ill Never forget that god bless him.
@@jimmoorhouse916 all true jim to lads of a certain age like me the raf lads were our heros when he told me it was his plane his lovely wife nodded and smiled. God bless those lads.
My uncle was 21 a BoB pilot. He said to me just before he passed away that if the Spitfire had been a human female she would have been one of the most beautiful and yet deadly woman on the planet. God bless all the brave boys and girls who served to keep this land of ours free.
Agreed! Superb flying sequences and film. I only wish the producers had thought about the effect of some of the shots - would have preferred to see 6 Spitfires in a formation (a flight) than 5 or 7. Slip a Hurricane in - few would have noticed, lol! Nowadays it would be all CGI like the new Masters of the Air series!
@@Volcano-Man It went over budget, but I expect the producers got their money back in the decades since. The HBO series "The Pacific" went overbudget as well, and was a financial loss. An excellent work, not a flop. Again, taking the long view, it'll retrieve the expense. The BoB's producers also made the Bond franchise. They could afford it.
God bless the British,, Polish and Commonwealth men and women who gave there lives, spirit and time, like my grandad in RAF ground crew, to defeat evil.⚘
To the Pilot who every year takes his personnel Spitfire out for a few high level loops whilst i am camping... I salute you. You are the icing on the cake for my trip.
We have... The Polish War Memorial.... By The A40 Near RAF Northolt... As a kid... I thought 'Polish' Was an instruction.... 🤣 That said.... Much respect to 303 Sqdrn!.....😔
@@eugenemurray2940 and their names are on the Battle of Britain Memorial on the Westminster Embankment in London along with all the other Pilots who participated.
30 years after the the second world war finished, we, school students, were still drawing WWll fighting machines. There were WWll comics and movies galore. We will never see the like again. Everything is remote, now. Fire and forget.
Brilliant theme and very moving. The British War films of the 1950s and 1960s had some of the best themes ever. A fitting tribute to the brave men and women of both wars.
Brings tears everytime , such a wonderful rousing piece of music . The bravery of the young pilots and ground crews just amazing. Each time they flew they probably thought would be the last . Cant even begin to imagine that . Younger than my kids are .
Damn, as an Irish person this makes me uncontrollably patriotic,😂 just wanted to say thank you British pilots and soldiers, if British fell Europe would definitely fall🇮🇪🤝🇬🇧
Ah, the wonderful sound of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Some say the Spitfire was the most beautiful fighter of WW2. Yet the Hurricane had a beauty all its own.
Met a Texan who'd flown for the film company. They apparently owed him a large sum when finished and he took a spitfire in payment. Saw a few yrs ago he was selling his collection including the spitfire still painted up as it was in the film. Liked his opinion on the spitfire saying "The P-51 Mustang wasn't any better than a spitfire it just did the same thing for longer"
@@sanddancer1951 The Merlin engine with its 2 stage supercharger enabled the P-51 to fly at a much higher altitude than it could with the Allison engine. Which was a vast improvement a sorely needed one at the time as the bombers desperately needed fighter escort. The bombing campaign over Europe made the Mustang famous without it the P-51 would have been short lived as liquid cooled engines don't fair well in ground attack to easy to bring down.
@@jakesmith6186 The thing I actually know that the original video from the terminated channel is to search a video title from your watch history. If the video that you were watched wasn't on the list meaning the channel or the video for terminated.
It greatly depresses me to know these fierce warriors and legends are being replaced by blabbering idiots who can't even string a sentence together and break their own bloody laws. Thank you to ALL of the servicemen and servicewomen who fought so hard to protect the Land of Hope and Glory. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
My father was a Royal Marine commando at D-day 1944...he didn't join because of Land of Hope and Glory, he joined because his relatives were all Royal Marines, and he wanted to serve with them...he didn't give a toss about Britain and churchill:)
I love an inspirational theme like this of the RAF knocking the Jerries for six and foiling Operation Sealion. Backs to the wall stuff against the odds to save dear old Blighty from invasion. Tally Ho!!
@@GeraltofRivia22 Air superiority won the battle for Poland and France, even Fighter Command knew that if Jerry had the skies they could mount an air and sea invasion of Britain with London as a principle target. The utilisation of Fallschirmjäger units, Panzer divisions and Blitzkrieg air tactics would make a resistance against invasion improbable.
@@lfgpanthers5333 nope, that's wrong. Even if the RAF was neutralized, an invasion would be impossible. The Germans simply didn't have the ships. The Royal Navy could wait out of range of the Luftwaffe and then attacks as soon as the first German ships are seen crossing the channel. Sure, some would get across, but that doesn't matter. The royal navy would prevent supplies and reinforcements from getting across. Paratroopers and the few soldiers the ships manage to get across simply wouldn't be able to conquer the whole of Britain.
@@GeraltofRivia22 It's important to remember that the Royal Navy was not besting the Kriegsmarine in the early 1940s, and in fact with a paralysed RAF many of the successes we attribute to the Royal Navy would not be possible. A combination of U-Boat strikes, German Naval positioning, and the use of Luftwaffe air superiority on naval bases and fleets without challenge would render the ability of the former stuck, we saw a similar result in the Battle of the Atlantic, but here there'd be less waters and more Jerry openings than you could shake a stick at. It's also important to recognise that Germany would not need to have forces everywhere to invade Britain, seizing London and Eastern coastal positions would be enough to create beach heads that could tear apart the defensive lines of any armed forces. In fact the allies did a smaller example on D-Day. Now the Home Guard were established because Britain recognised the lack of home grown fighting power, I don't need to tell you how that'd go, nor the fact that Dowding himself stated that if they lost the Battle of Britain, Nazi Germany would be London in three weeks.
Non of that awful CGI. Just brilliantly conducted flying sequences, with large numbers of aircraft, and attention to detail . Look at the bombing attack on the Airfield, where the sound is properly syncronised with the explosions. i.e. you see the bombs go off in the distance before the sound reaches the actors, as it does in reality. The book 'The Narrow Margin' was the basis for the film, its a dry read , but accurate.(as far as possible)
I agree, great Film, real machines and attention to detail. I love this post but wish the clips were played the right way! I don’t want to see the Squadron lettering reversed repeatedly 😕 That said, it was super to see what the film producers tried to replicate of a Squadron of Hurricanes in flight when all they had available at the time were 3 of the type. It remains my favourite war film 👍
One of the best war flicks of all time. The soundtrack including this theme song was great. The only issue I had with the movie is that it portrayed the Spitfire as pretty much the only contributor to the Battle of Britain but it was the Hurricane fighter that was responsible for most of the bomber kills. The Spitfires took on the Luftwaffe fighters while the Hurricanes went after the bombers for the most part though both had fighter and bomber kills. A salute to the brave men who fought in that conflict!
@@rogueriderhood1862 Germany did not exist in 1969. People were not interested in a racist film about an imperialist war. The battle was irrelevant anyway as Hitler never intended to invade the UK.
Thanks for putting this back up! I used to have this on a playlist and on loop, but then it was removed; such a let down when that happened. Epic video!!
My favorite aviation movie and I love that theme…the music really works with that. The music called “ The Battle in the Air” featured on the big climactic battle is outstanding, and I’ve even heard it played on classical music stations.
It was composed by Sir William Walton, who also composed "Spitfire Prelude and Fugue", the opening music of the wartime film "The First of The Few" about RJ Mitchell, who designed the Spitfire. Walton composed a complete soundtrack for "Battle of Britain" but the producers wanted something a bit livelier and commissioned Ron Grainer to produce an alternative. The passage you mention is the only part of Walton's soundtrack that was retained. incidentally, Grainer's "Aces High", which represents the Luftwaffe of 1940 has been adopted by the modern-day Luftwaffe, as its official March.
Britain really did give the 2 fingers to Hitler.. And I say this as an IRISH man.. The raf defended the skies over Ireland and prevented a nazi invasion of Ireland... Thank you so much to those who served and fought.
The RAF still does. As the Republic doesn't have an air force of any note the RAF routinely patrols Irish air space in a quiet deal between the two countries.
"Ja biorę prawego! Atakuję!" "Zostawcie coś dla mnie!" "Oh! Uważaj, jestem za tobą!" "Zostaw, ja go wezmę!" "Niemcy, Niemcy! Na dole!" *"OX WILL YOU PIPE DOWN"*
Brilliant piece of music One of my favourite lines from the film is when one of the ground crew asks Robert shaws character what to do with the German bomber crew that was shot down to which he replies...they made this mess get them to clean it up. Then he asks, what about the officers? To which he replies... get them a bloody shovel 😅
Not just the Battle of Britain but for Europe as well. Thank god we had so many friends from all over the world and of course the famous British fighting spirt. To those that gave everything everywhere i truly salute you.
CGI Vs real aircraft? I know which I and MANY others would prefer. (plus the inevitable nauseating tidal wave of contemporary revisionist box ticking agenda BS)
YEAH IT WOULD, BUT THERE ISN'T ANY SPITFIRES, HURRICANES, ME 109S OR HEINKELS TO FLY ANY MORE, AND WHERE WERE THE JU88S DO17 ME110S???? THEY WERE IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AS WELL!!
Na. The CGI even in 2023 is pathetic. True they may be able to reproduce Dorniers, JU 88's and stukas instead of just Heinkels and 109's but you can't get better than the real thing.
The merlin makes a great bassline introduction to probably the most iconic theme tune ever made. Even the strings section sounds like machine gun fire.
The brave men and women who flew the planes, maintained them, operated the radar stations, plotted the raids and directed the fighter interceptions etc etc kept us in the war in 1940 when so many thought that Britain would either be invaded or forced to sue for peace on Hitler's terms. If we had been knocked out of the war that would have given Hitler a free hand to put all the German strength against the Soviets without having to contend with commando raids, bomber raids, fighting the 8th Army in North Africa and so forth. The course of WW2 could have played out very differently. The debt of gratitude we owe to those brave men and women, and continue to owe them, is huge. Also a special word for Sir Hugh Dowding, the man at the top, on whose shoulders the fate of the nation rested in that Summer of 1940. He made the decisions that led to Britain surviving to fight against Hitler. So far as the music is concerned, it is a classic, very rousing and memorable. My dad took me to see the film at the cinema in 1969, when I would have been 7 or 8. In the foyer there were models of Spitfires and Hurricanes, a dummy of a pilot in flying suit and helmet, and other items that I can't remember too well. Still one of my favourite WW2 films.
They were bloody magnificent. The ordure had hit the fan, but the free world needed them and they were there. Time and again, fighting insane odds and going into battle as though they numbered in their thousands.
@@nigeh5326 Being a pilot or a sailor requires a different sort of a character. You're largely independent in both so individualistic people gravitate towards those. Just compare how pilots wear their uniform caps.
I wish i could have been there wow how brave pure love for all the war effort ❤❤❤when i hear a spite fire sound i get tears goosebumps what a plane❤❤❤❤
Went the day well? We died and never knew, But, for good or ill, Freedom - we died for you. When you go home, tell them of us and say "For your Tomorrow these gave their Toay." Requiescant In Pace
On paper, the far superior numbers of the Luftwaffe should have cleared the RAF from the skies over the UK. However the German's committed several blunders that prevented them from doing that, the main one was switching their attacks from British airfields to bombing London.
True. Another couple of major issues was 1: Goering completely underestimated the effectiveness of radar and didn't put enough effort into destroying the radar stations, and 2: the BF109 was not a long-range fighter and only had enough fuel to fight for about 10 - 15 minutes before having to head back across the channel (sometimes still didn't make it and had to ditch in the channel). The whole thing was just too rushed, not enough planning and underestimating the enemy.
Surely the points of take off and acendency of these spitfires should be at points 1:02 and 1:18 ,with formations coming together and being seen from point 1:25 , with the enemy being spotted then approched from the sun or cloud cover stealthy at points 1:41 and 2:42 , and engagement at pionts 1:53 and 2:51 , and them flying off at point 3:05.
Its happened since tha beginning of life on earth, why would you imagine it will ever stop? Especially now with the military industrialists getting richer and richer with EVERY bullet fired or bomb dropped. Stop worrying and enjoy your life.
