The Battle Of Britain: How Britain Fought The Blitz Bombings | Full Series | All Out History 

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My Uncle was a tail-end Charlie. When I was about 9 years old I asked him what happened, but he told me that he was ground crew, and never went in the air. But my cousin, his daughter had told me before what he had done. Even at that age I got the message he didn't want to talk about it.

I bet you've got some interesting tales from India Hazel...?!? 👌🙏👌

'... Leigh-Mallory's 12 Group 'Big Wing' was a hindrance to Park throughout the campaign...' You need to read modern research about the Battle. Park continually called upon 12 Group's squadron too late, and then complained. As for this: '...disgraceful treatment of Park and Dowding after the Battle had been won...' Dowding had had his retirement deferred THREE times before agreeing a retirement date of 31st October 1940 in July 1940. Park had served his time in the post and was moved to another duty - standard practise in the civil service, of which the military is but one section of the whole. Rotation of staff in all grades was and still is normal practise. Please get up to date with modern research and knowledge...

They thought alot of the planes had been destroyed to by bombing certain airfields but they had been moved by the RAF and shortly after ww2 is when more spitfires came into production after the Hurricane before it, the spitfire was way more faster and better at dogfighting and maneuverability

To help save Britain to use as a base to free the rest of Europe to be precise.

There is a czech movie The Dark Blue Word (Tmavomodry svet) about czech pilots in RAF. (the name Dark Blue Word is a cz blues song at 30s, its famous composer Jaroslav Jezek was almost blind, he only recognized blue color and lived in blue room) Another much older movie Riders in the Sky (Nebesti jezdci) is about czech bombarders.

New Zealanders too.

@@margaretreid2153 Indeed. 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" (though I'm NOT accusing you of that). 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 following each nation are the actual number of pilots from that country who took part in the battle, and the percentage of the overall number of RAF fighter pilots that that nationality contributed. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 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 lefty idiot "Identity warriors" who've wandered into these comments from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the two pilots from the Caribbean were both of white British descent).

Thank you! as a Canadian I have always felt the role of the commonwealth has been under appreciated .

Great to hear that. I would opine that BoB was the most important battle of WW2. Without British victory there would have been no second front, or American involvement in Europe. Therefore there would have been no D-Day. Moreover, America would not have been able to prevent the Japanese from invading India. The world would now be a different and Nazi place.

Especially as you also had japan coming from the east and they made it as far as china maybe more

@@marklelohe3754 D-Day was to save western Europe from Stalin.

Bullshit! It all started with Germany and Poland! .....and ended with the US and Japan.

Actually the US had declared war on 24 March 1933.

You mean the 303 squadron that was led by Ronald Kellett? Everyone remembers them, as you just did.

@@dalj4362 No Dai, he means Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd who had a total CONFIRMED kill tally of 58.5 kills, and which included Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. (All kill tallies are those scored during the battle of Britain) The same pilots who have ALWAYS been creditied by the British. It's apparently only lefty dupes who because they know nothing of history mistakenly believe that everybody else also know nothing about history. The poor, poor credulous fools.

True. Most of books and articles that I read about the battle never mentioned any of the foriegn pilots. I doubt that was deliberate. The film makers may not have had the money in their budget to travel all over France, Canada, America, and wherever the surviving Polish pilots were located. Remember that when this film was made, Poland was behind the Iron Curtain. That changed in the 70s and 80s. What I like about this video is that narrations by several British and German vets. Their stories were recorded before they died.

@@keithranker3908 Most books that I've read on the subject over the years rarely mention pilot nationality at all, only usually to specify if a pilot was "non-British", but more often than not simply using the pilot's names as related to the events they individually faced. Quite understandably nationality was not mentioned a lot of the time as 80% of Fighter Command pilots were of British birth. If "nationality" is required from now on, to what "granularity" is it to be used? With regard to "Polish" 303 Sqd for instance, do we also have to specify the NON Polish aircrew that were part of the Squadron establishment? Or do modern day Poles demand a "middle road" where their small minority contribution is held in the highest regard, but that of other nation's pilots who served amongst them is quietly ignored?

Why would anyone try and say that another squadron was any better than another? They were all brave men that fought for our freedom why should race suddenly matter? Only men like Hitler put race above anything else.

Wenn die Alliierten nicht siegen würden, müsste ich den Google-Übersetzer nicht verwenden, um das zu sagen. If the Allies didn't win, I wouldn't need to use Google Translate to say this. 😁

​@@siggyretburns7523how do you know there would be a Google?

@@TomGodson95 I dont. But I bet we'd all be speaking German if the allies lost.

It was lumbering with the same pieces of film being shown over and over and over and over again. The reminiscences of the pilots were the jewels as always but the same pieces of CGI over and over again were boring. The formally recognised end of the Battle of Britain was 31st October, not 30th September. Where are the maps showing the position of the airfields at the relevant points. Where is Kenley, for instance ? I know .... but this little series wasn't aimed at me but should have been informative for people with far less knowledge than me. In short, it was just a time filler. The pilots have all appeared in a number of better productions than this one. Something more should have been made of the stupidity of Sholto Douglas and Trafford Leigh-Mallory, particularly the latter's and his running dog Douglas Bader's farting about with their big wing nonsense and their utter failure to support 11 group when required. The 109s had trouble with fuel tank capacity, so did planes flying from Duxford etc. Not only were they too late in arriving time after time but they squandered valuable fuel which the country could ill afford. Dutch sailors were burning to death their tankers having been attacked by U-Boats as they attempted to bring oil to Britain from Aruba and that pair of idiots were wasting it. There is a possibility that those who advised them didn't want feathers ruffled. Infighting and jealousy within the RAF hierarchy was considerable and the vultures were gathering and bad-mouthing Hugh Dowding long before the War. If it had been left to them and their ideas, we may well have lost the Battle of Britain.

@desertmandan123 Just tell me how the rubbish round and about 1.30 is not CGI interspersed with actual film where small groups were shown. They have used the audio recording of Hitler's speech and done their own thing with the video representation. I assure you that the Nazi film of this event filmed for posterity is rather more grainy than here. and they didn't have a rolling dolly either .... or drones ! We don't need you to announce to the World that some of the footage is bits bought up cheap from the cutting room floor and bits of the film used under licence. We can all read the first line or so of that which is below the video without even bothering with "more", although how excerpts from the film are, "never before seen footage from the 1969 film", I don't know. I have seen the film and I have seen ALL of it so it has been seen by me at least. The fact remains that this production is misleading and a time-waster . The contributors, of course, gave their interviews and had no control over what the producers would do with them. Again, some of it has been "purloined" from other far more worthwhile productions. The film, "Battle of Britain" released in 1969 is a reasonable dramatisation of the events although the Chistopher Plumber love interest is a complete load of hog's wash, has a glaring inaccuracy in that at the end among the pilots by nationality, one is listed as Israeli. A child of British nationality, born to an English father and Circassian mother who happened to have been born in Haifa where his British civil servant father happened to be stationed at the time, and who left Palestine aged 5 (1925) never to return and was killed in Libya in 1941 was NOT an Israeli. Whilst George was educated at the very Christian Highgate school, his Dad continued with his job in Palestine till 1939 after which he and his wife moved to Lagos in Nigeria where he was engaged in the administration of Nigeria's railways (such as they were).

​@@terryhoath1983 Saying that "all that CGI was boring" is an insult to the producers of the film, because they went to large expenses and extraordinary efforts to film real airplanes, with just a few scenes being filmed with large Scale Radio controlled Models, and that was because it was practically impossible to find flyable examples of some planes, like the Junkers Ju- 87 Stuka.

@@terryhoath1983 CGI...LOL!

@@alfredomarquez9777 I did NOT insult them. If they are at all interested .... I doubt they are .... then they may take my remarks as a chastisement. There is plenty of film of dive-bombers without a bunch of liars trying to make up fairy tales for which gullible people may fall. The truth is the truth. Let's have it.

3rd? Wouldn’t it be first?

@@harryparsons2750 It out-numbered all INDIVIDUAL air forces in the world, except for the US and the RUSS! Why do you think it would be first?

Yes, big thanks to the. 126 New Zealanders 98 Canadians 33 Australians 25 South Africans 145 Polish 88 Czechs 10 Irish 11 Americans (US) 2,345 British We thank them all.

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 some commenters presenting 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. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 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%) Sincerest respects to ALL who fought.

Those brave souls saved us all

​@@dalj4362 There were definitely not 11 U.S. pilots.

@@dalj4362 Those figures are incorrect and stop trying to take the victory away from the British!

That’s amazing. Thank God for such men.🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧

It's not so much its "been forgotten" as no one can expect a youngster to know all of his country's history, but it IS an insult by the increasingly lefty "ejukashun" establishment to not teach these things as part of the national curriculum to our younger generations, they could easily make space by dropping all the "gender identity" nonsense, and transgender propaganda thats been put in over the last 5 years. Still there are still a smal proportion of youngsters who seek out videos such as these of their own initiative. It's not ALL bad.

My grandfather was also in the R.A.F. He never spoke much about the war, but my grandmother told me he was in North Africa against Rommel & at Bergin Belsin concentration camp. You see, he was an ambulance driver in the R.A.F.. Like most young lads made model planes & do remember asking him what he thought of the Spitefire & too my amazement he said he preferred the Hurricanes it didn't dawn on me at that age why. He would have pulled a lot of young airmen out of the Spitefires. Funny thing that, but true. When he died, my grandmother gave me his RAF drivers license & I still treasure it to this day. He was my hero & Irish. Slainte 👍

​@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 qq0à😂😂

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Dump supporter by any chance?

@@francodimitsy989 NO Franco... I'm a TRUTH supporter with an independent critical mind who lives in the UK (I thought that would have been obvious after my post in the "Polish" thread you responded to, then again you do appear to be a clueless "democrat drone"), why would I support ANY US corporate funded politician? At least in Trump's case he's his OWN man, and not a puppet of the same lefty globalists I imagine you're enthralled by. Now toddle off and go decide what gender you "identify as" today. You're free to pretend whatever you like, I'm also free to choose not to pretend along with you.

I understand what you meant, old chap, but Albert "Cubby" Broccoli had nothing to do with it, it was the other guy Harry "Tubby" Saltzman

@@CaesarCassius right you are. Us 70 year olds are easily confused.

@@pmapilotmooney Roger that, old boy, it's the fun in the sun that will get you!

If it wa4s wrong with the Luftwaffe -- usually Goering. His brain was stuck in the Great War.

And Dowding insisted prewar that the systems telephone/telegraph wires be routed underground and not via telegraph poles, which were easily blown down by blasts, which contributed to the systems resilience.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Good Point . There is a balance .It needed a direct hit to break when Underground but cutting over a damaged cable would take longer to do. I am an ex Comms Tech and the Logistics are: you have to provide a slave cable to keep it going , replace pipes and rehaul a new section and rejoin that in and remove the slave. Not insurmountable but time consuming.I would hope they would throw 20 odd men at it overnight . If it was overhead you just have to dig a new pole in and rejoin the broken section

@@Rusty_Gold85 I'm sure there was redundancy within the network, where comms lines could be rerouted via different exchanges, for example when the ops block at RAF Manston received a direct hit, and was quickly reconstructed in the local village's bakery.

Between Exchanges there is Trunk network cross connecting( allowing rerouting) , but from each Exchange Branch cables reach out to premises and Op posts . With some of that overhead . Would love to know the ducks guts of the damage to Manston

Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate

And now they issue chest binders to the sick and pathetic rans boys who want to join

What way of life is that? Food banks, 15 million Brits live in poverty, homelessness for thousands, old age pensioners choosing between freezing or eating, unparalleled knife crimes on the streets and the lowest pensions of a major European country. I worked for 35 years in Germany and apart from leading a wonderful interesting life near the Bavarian alps I receive a German pension that surpasses any British tradesman's wage by far and Idon't have to pay tax on it, Brexit? you've been hoodwinked.

​@@albundy9597 Britain paid for the war whilst Germany got financial help after the war. I am extremely proud of Britain. The best country in the world who, by hanging on, saved the rest of the world! Brexit is the best thing we ever did. Who wants to be dictated to by the Germans?

@@valeriedavidson2785 you got a ZOG instead lol bankrupt vassal state

yea same

So what do want to say?

And Eagle Squadron.

@@sandbridgekid4121 Eagle squadron took NO part in the battle of Britain, the 9 individual US pilots who had broken their own country's neutrality laws to "do the right thing" had paid their own way to the UK and received NO help whatsoever from the US govt. On being inducted into RAF fighter command they were assigned individually to British RAF squadrons.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 It was likely a classified program like the Ameican Volunteer Group. AVG pilot's were assured the would not lose their citizenship when "volunteering". There are hundreds, if not thousands of still classified files, programs from WW2.

@@sandbridgekid4121 The first Eagle squadron (71 Sqd) was inaugurated on 19th Sept 1940, and became operational on 5th Feb 1941 at RAF Church Fenton in North Yorkshire.

"England"? "English". I think you mean British. Danke.

@@FallNorth Well... this did all take place in England... not Wales or Scotland but I get your point.

The Polish Squadron and the Hawker Hurricane.

Yes, we forget the brave Polish Pilots who had a score to settle with Germany and fought with an Anger that arose from what Germany did to Poland. Then there were Pilots in the RAF from South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, who served as well.

bullocks the rest of the Common Wealth were in it from day 1. Canada Anzacs India Poland. from the Ghurkas to the Black Watch (CA) , the UK where never "alone"

:) I love that film. A great part about it is .. there is a brilliant famous "luftwaffe" march played that is so german nobody thinks ... it was made up for the film and it's a fabrication. The RAF band plays it, a wink in their eye :)

I know I'm a nitpicker, but the fake 109s spoilt it for me.

The "Heinkels" were also Licence built Spanish Casa 2.111s

Did you notice anything wrong with the Hurricanes in the “repeat please” scene? They were 109s, not enough airworthy Hurricanes for a flight at that time.

The Hispano Aviación HA-1109 and HA-1112 are licence-built versions of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2. Germany could not supply the DB605A engines and Hispano-Suiza HS89-12Z ones were fitted. The aircraft were designated Bf109-J. The star of the film was the post war HA-1112-M1L Buchón. This aircraft was fitted with the Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 engine and a chin intake. 'Yellow 10' was also in the film 'Dunkirk' and is currently based at Duxford. It appears regularly as the 'enemy' aircraft at flying displays across the UK. The Buchón also impersonated the Hurricane in BoB.

Tyre, Aeroplane. Correct English.

There's a small villiage near to where i live called great addington in northants and a german bomber crashed landed after being hit by a hurricane, it crashed landed not far from the local infants school which for some bizarre reason the teacher took the kids to get quite near it to have a look without realising that nearly all the crew was dead in it, apart from the wireless operator who managed to parachute out and who was found not far away with many broken bones due to how low the plane was when he bailed, anyhow they was laid to rest in the local church and given full military honors bestowed upon them with the crooked cross flags on coffins and a gun salute and a bronze plaque that commemorates them to be seen to this today...

The Germans did, in fact, perform a number of bombing raids on the antennas, but the target was too small to be hit en masse, and the few antennas damaged during the bombings were repaired in the span of around a day. I might be mistaken with the numbers (such as the time it took to repair), but I can guarantee that there were attempts, and they proved unsuccessful.

@@MDzmitry Didn't the Ventnor radar station on the Isle of Wight get put out of action for a while ? So the Germans were aware and tried to destroy the stations but were unsuccessful.

On Aug 23, 1940, the Germans were three weeks away from destroying the RAF, in the Air and on the Ground. Then, on Aug 23, 1940, a German plane bombed a City by mistake and killed British Civilians. Until then, only military targets were bombed. Depending on the source (Book or Video) the City was either Coventry or London. This enraged Churchill so much, he bombed Berlin for the first time. Of course, this enraged HITLER so much, he ordered that British cities be bombed. For some reason, the Luftwaffe, with 1,000s of planes, could NOT bomb British Civilians AND the RAF bases at the same time! But what was bad for Civilians was a Godsend to the RAF. The RAF was given some "breathing Room" and recovered from the Nazi onslaught. By September 15, 1940, Hitler "Postponed" Operation Sea Lion (the Invasion of Britain), but that was another way of saying it was cancelled and Hitler then concentrated on his forthcoming invasion of the USSR. Not even a month had passed since the Luftwaffe's Fatal Error of Aug 23, 1940. Was it an "Error" or the Unseen Hand of God?

@@MDzmitry They found the radar masts difficult to destroy with bombs, and assumed that the control rooms would be in underground bombproof bunkers, which most actually weren't.

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I think the Spitfires were more complex and difficult to manufacture. The Me109 on the other hand was designed for mass industrial production and was much simpler to produce.

Spitfires took more man hours to produce than the ME109.

I thought the weakness was the relative smallish fuel tank

The main weakness of the ME 109 was that it was not a Spitfire.

Yeah something a bit weird there?, i thought 303 squadron was a polish squadron made up from polish volunteers, so i googled it, and there is not one polish person in the top 5 scorers of that squadron?, so why am i lead to believe, certainly through comments and other threads on social media that 303 squadron was made up purely of polish pilots, when evidently this is not true as the 58 kill ratio was acheived by mainly british, canadian and Czech pilots?..am i reading it wrong or is it another case of does google iie?..

While celebrating the bravery, skill and success of Polish "Kościuszko" 303 sqd, the top scoring RAF squadron of the battle of Britain, also remember the other nationalities who flew as part of the squadron during the battle and who contributed SO much to its success. Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. We in the UK remember ALL the pilots (and NOT just the Polish ones).

@@wor53lg50 The Poles were NOT "volunteers" they were refugees fighting to protect the sanctuary they had kindly been given from the soviet evil that had murdered 22000 Polish officers in April 1940 and the nazi death camps that were then being planned for their homelands.

So whats wrong with the indian goverment pulling their fingers out their arses and making one themselves aye?, or if they want pay a couple hundred grand and the brits will make one for them instead of ridung the coat tails? Or they incapable or two busy being corrupt, still they cant feed themselves at the moment so the only thing to do is piss and moan and virtue signal, and i cant think of one Indian pilot in the BOB can anybody else, if it was in south east asia saving their own skins and country from the japs then maybe, but certainly aint none in BOB..

There were no Indian pilots in the Battle of Britain...

@@Pokafalva god damn feckin right anall, these worms wasnt prepared or wanting to fight for their own existence?? , let alone another nations??..kohima and imphal we shall remember???? And lest no brit forget???

@@wor53lg50 The simple point I made was that no Indian pilots fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940. Prove me wrong. You can't. It is not in dispute that Indian troops and Indian flyers distinguished themselves in later conflicts, but none flew in the Battle of Britain.

@@Pokafalva believe no gupta gave a shit about britain or gave their service's to protect it... They had to be bribed and paid to fight for their own nation and existence or thered be speaking japanese NOW??..... Indian Frei korps??? Who tha fuk are they???? +?

Does it say "only British flyers" in the video?

Ive seen those in pictures there cool bits of kit, germans called theirs bouys, and brits called theirs barges?,ive heard somewhere there'd actually use each others if fate or luck however you could call it, put you near your enemies one at the time of ditching, but atleast youd be rescued alive whether being a prisoner or back up flying the day after..

Churchill didn’t treat Dowding “shabbily” as you surmise. Dowding was due to retire in 1939, but war in Europe had him staying on for one more year. It was Leigh-Mallory and Bader that stabbed Dowding in the back, were insubordinate and maneuvered behind Dowding’s back to have him dismissed. The RAF and the Air Minister are the ones who should be publicly shamed for how Dowding was treated immediately after the battle ended.

@@vstar7196 All of what you say is true, but in the end, they had to get Churchiil's approval.

True. But it was to have unintended - positive - consequences later in the war when Keith Park was assigned to Malta, again at the darkest and most dangerous hour, to again win an air battle using limited resources against overwhelming odds. The Allies were very fortunate indeed to have that man command their side at two of the most critical air battles during WW2.

@@ogukuo97 Good point. Park and Dowding were treated shabbily after the Battle of Britain.

The three main authors of Dowding and Park's downfall were in order of seniority Sir Charles Portal (Chief of the Air staff) his deputy, William Sholto-Douglas (Deputy Chief of the air staff) and finally Trafford Leigh-Mallory (O/C 12 group Fighter Command). All of whom were ambitious and conniving political animals, eager to depose the true heroes of Fighter Command during the battle, and indeed it was Sholto-Douglas who took over the reins of Fighter Command after Dowding's thankless dismissal from the post on 24th November 1940. As an interesting aside, Leigh-Mallory was awarded his own personal pair of "big wings" when he was killed in Aug 1944 in a plane crash in the Alps whilst travelling to take over his new promotion as OC South East Asia Air Command (unfortunately the rest of the crew of the Avro York transport aircraft were also killed). Guess who was appointed as his replacement at SEAC? None other than Air Chief Marshall Sir Keith Park. Though it would be hard to imagine that the decent and honourable kiwi felt ANY sense of revenge or satisfaction.... maybe. I want to believe that Churchill was misinformed by the members of the Air staff and simply "rubber stamped" their recommendations for Dowding and Park, but its hard to accept that as the truth when you consider that in Winston Churchill's post war "History of the second world war" during his account of the Battle of Britain he didn't even mention Hugh Dowding by name !!!

The towers being of wooden lattice work were pretty resistant to blast waves, and would have needed a very near miss to be damaged, and any that were damaged would have been quickly repaired by RAF riggers. The really fragile part of the stations were the huts that housed all the electronic equipment and operators. At this point in the war few of the buildings were underground or otherwise protected from blast, such had been the rush to completel the RDF network in the 2 years prior to WW2. The worst hit RDF station was RAF Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. On 12th August 1940 Ventnor was one of 4 stations hit by the luftwaffe that day, and although the towers remained standing, most of the associated buildings were destroyed and the station was "off the air" until November 1940. The air ministry "plugged the hole" in out radar network by siting a rudimentary mobile radar set (Actually a British Army Mk1 Gun laying radar set) which while nowhere near as useful as the Chain Home equipment normally used at Ventnor did provide some cover and also somewhat masked from the German B-dienst signals intelligence service the full extent of the damage done to the Chain home system in the area.

But at this point of the war it was only one side of "the pond" doing the fighting and dying.

Why?

Sad that somebody got their fight against FASCISM in 1940 confused with the latest FASCIST led attempt to attack the brave Russian people since the 2014 American backed Ukrainian Fascist coup-de'tat in Kiyev.

Poland had 100s of aircraft destroyed on the ground, making Polish pilots a valuable resource.

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American radar at that time was very crude. The real breakthrough came with the invention of the Cavity Magnetron in England. Very short wave radar which transformed aerial combat and night bombing because it could “see” the ground. We gave advanced radar to the Americans along with the jet engine and their first understanding of “chain reaction” (atomic bomb).

@@oldman1734 What you are talking about was the Tizard mission. The cavity magnetron was the most important secret weapon of the War, only exceeded by the atomic bomb. It was important because it reduced the size of radar sets allowing them to be put on aircraft. The British secret technology was vital, but you miss a critical point. America was not a technological backwater. Only its technology was not being developed for weaponry, it was largely being developed by private corporations to produce consumer products. And British technology was not fully developed. It was American technology that turned the British conceptual work into real weapons of war that could be mass-produced. You overstate the nuclear work. There was nothing in the Tizard documents that was new to American nuclear physicists. Even before the Tuizard Mission, Einstein had written to President Roosevelt, who set the Manhattan Program in motion. But you are absolutely correct that the treasure trove of British research was vital to the Allied war effort. Another especially important item was the proximity fuse.

@@dennisweidner288. You forget that Britain is a tiny country compared to America. There was not only the small size of the country, but Britain was under constant attack from the air, and imports attacked by submarines. A decision taken in the 1840s to reduce food production in favour of more industrial production meant we imported most of our food. Americans didn’t always lead scientific research. The atom was first split in Britain, penicillin was discovered and means of producing it was also British. And the Americans were very grateful for the cavity magnetron. Interestingly, there were several versions of the device and the one given to the Americans was slightly different to the one used by the British. The difference persisted until modern times. I don’t know about things now, probably totally different. Actually, Americans aren’t very good a wars. You’ve only won one war entirely on your own, and that was against a totally weak Spain. (The revolutionary war was won by the French who bankrupted themselves in the process). Americans totally fouled-up in Vietnam while the British were defeating the communists in Malaya. Did you know the British pacified Vietnam in 1946? And they told America how to fight in Vietnam but America wouldn’t listen.

@@oldman1734 Obviously you took my comment as a criticism of Britain. I did not mean it as such nor do I think in fair assessment would judge it as in accurate or an unfair assessment. The principal point I was trying to make was that the Allied victory was the result of the greatest military alliance in history. After the fall of France, Britain could not have won the war on its own, and I do not see how America could have fought the War without Britain. As to your specific points: 1. "You forget that Britain is a tiny country compared to America." It is rather condescending to say I forgot anything thing. Britain itself had a population and economy of about a third of America. It was by no means "tiny", but was smaller. There was, however, the Empire which played a major role in the War. If you are saying that Britain's performance was impressive given its size I agree. If you are saying that all America had going for it was size, I disagree. Britain and America complimented each other, each playing critical roles in the war effort. 2. " There was not only the small size of the country, but Britain was under constant attack from the air, and imports attacked by submarines." Absolutely correct. I have always admired the British for their valiant stand against the NAZI juggernaut. And the importance of which is not fully understood today. 3. "A decision taken in the 1840s to reduce food production in favour of more industrial production meant we imported most of our food." You are speaking of the Corn Laws. And the food that fed Britain during the War came from Canada and America. 4. "Americans didn’t always lead scientific research. The atom was first split in Britain, penicillin was discovered and means of producing it was also British." The two top countries in pure scientific research were Germany and Britain, with the Germans having a small edge, here I am going on Nobel Prizes. But even before the post-Wae era, there was a lot of inventing and research going on in America. This was more applied research and not the kind of pure science which win Nobel Prizes. Major advances were made in America, such as the first powered flight. Both were very important in time of War. As for the means of production, here America clearly led the way with Henry Ford and the Tuin Lizzy. American assembly lines were the world leader. This is why the most important car companies in both Britain and Germany were American subsidiaries. Abd by the way, Britain was not the first to split the atom, it was German scientists. It was why Einstein went to President Roosevelt. 5. "And the Americans were very grateful for the cavity magnetron. Interestingly, there were several versions of the device and the one given to the Americans was slightly different to the one used by the British. The difference persisted until modern times. I don’t know about things now, probably totally different. " Absolutely we were. Someone described the Tuzard mission as the greatest treasure trove ever to cross the Atlantic. Abd I think they were right. 6. "Actually, Americans aren’t very good a wars. You’ve only won one war entirely on your own, and that was against a totally weak Spain. (The revolutionary war was won by the French who bankrupted themselves in the process). Americans totally fouled-up in Vietnam while the British were defeating the communists in Malaya. Did you know the British pacified Vietnam in 1946? And they told America how to fight in Vietnam but America wouldn’t listen." The Revolutionary War was not won by France, but they did play a major role. I am rather amazed at this comment in that the cornerstone of British military and diplomatic policy was not to fight a land war on the Continent and certainly not without allies. Marlborough had Prince Eugene and Wellington had Blucher. During the Napoleonic wars, very little of the land war was fought by Britain, it was fought by their allies. Vietnam was a disaster, but not because America lost the War militarily. The North Vietnamese were defeated after Tet, but the Democrats then pulled out in an act of betrayal to the Vietnamese people. And you are right the British defeated the Communists in Malaya.

@@dennisweidner288. I won’t go into everything, but just a few comments. The Revolutionary War. The French played a vital part, for instance by stopping the British crossing the Atlantic with more troops, famously just before the last battle of the war. Regarding only fighting at sea. Have you heard of The Peninsula War? The British ARMY fought the French in Portugal and Spain, pushing them back into France. So the Battle of Waterloo (with Blucher) wasn’t the only battle fought on land. But being an island the British saw their first line of defence as the sea. Hence vast amounts spent on the Royal Navy. In the war of 1812 (started by the Americans who assumed an easy victory) the Royal Navy destroyed all of America’s first line ships. All of them. And it was the American public who insisted on an end to the war as America was virtually removed from the rest of the world. Do you know why the British burned down the White House? It was in retaliation for the total destruction of the city of York (now known as Toronto) in a terrible war crime. And Nobel prizes tell little. The British created the modern world. The first modern democracy, the first to industrialise. As for power flight, that pushing it. Firstly the theory of flight was worked-out in England in the 1850s. Not in America. And the British had built man carrying gliders to prove it. There was no engine of the necessary power to weight ratio until the German invention of the internal combustion engine. So who really was responsible for powered flight? The British discovered how, and the Germans made it possible. And there were lots of people working on it. The Americans were the first but only just and were well behind European countries by 1914.

Why would you tell us that? There would have been about 1 million 2 year olds in Britain at the time.

Brave men pushed into a huge corner I salute every brave German Airman , flying in white out conditions a great deal very challenging

Most people would not share your view. The British were not the aggressors and half the world were not fighting with Britain at this time. There were some European pilots helping Britain but in 1940 they were basically on their own.

Those German pilots were there to conquer Britain they do not have the kudos of the RAF pilots. Germany was a murderous state. Never forget it.

While the individual deaths are indeed most often tragedies, the cause for which those lives were given has some bearing on whther we should have sympathy for their loss. "Half the world behind them" by that I guess you mean Britain's imperial supply network, very similar to that of nazi Germany, who as well as possessing the LARGEST national GDP in Europe, also had just conquered some of the most heavily industrialised nations in the world, on top of which she had very healthy supply contracts with Sweden, Finland, Italy, Spain and most of the countries of the Balkans (ESPECIALLY Romania) as well as being supplied with MILLIONS of tons of food, fuel and strategic raw materials by their great friend and ally the USSR. Even the USA was greedily conducting "business as usual" with nazi Germany as it set about the United Kingdom, such was the American desire to put profit ahead of any moral concerns. I understand your point of respect to the individual, but I just wanted to give a more balanced portrayal of the strategic situation facing Great Britain at that time.

These german pilots that you praise so highly were an important part of a regime that would have murdered more than half the world's population. For you to praise them in the same breath as the allied pilots who saved the world from that nightmare is disgusting. You betray those who saved your way of llfe.

Footage from the battle of britain film