Battle Of Britain - Full Documentary

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Polscy piloci z 302 i 303 dywizjonu RAF , oczyścili niebo nad Londynem z bandyckiej Luftwaffe.

It was Air MARSHAL DOWNING,, NOT THAT DRUNK CHURCHILL THAT STOPPED THE NAZI'S.
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Yes a tough man but remember he made some big mistakes in his career. Hugh Dowding should have been praised better than he did. Dowding won the Battle of Britain with his pilots not Churchill

No other airplane has shot down more aircraft even today then the hawker hurricane thought in the battle of Britain and in Burma and France and Belgium and Berlin and even I think in Russia

The super submarine spitfire however it was the hawker hurricane that shot down and did the bulk of the work in the battle of Britain

Without Dowding it's lightly that we would have lost the battle of Britain and possibly invalid and become a nazi puppet state

My grandfather was in the British experdishoiry force he was captured and spent most of his time in a POW camp I think it was called XXB I know that he met my grandmother there

That's bad that the government wouldn't even pay for the statute of Dowding

Polish Squadrons 303, 302 and other Polish Squadrons with Polish Heroes saved Britain, and helped to save Britain and they didn't let them join in the parade on the end, no thank you or anything. Hello from Poland 🇵🇱

There is only one surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain and he is being ignored. Is it because he is Irish?

apparently the Brits didn't really need the help of the USA and had everything under control after The Battle Of Britain. the Luftwaffe was never a real threat and a German invasion was a hoax

Shame how they treated Dowding and Parks.

Thank you Castle Lamancha for getting it right.

Excellent Documentary of the Battle of Britian. Very balanced. Gives the rightful credit to Dowding and Park for saving Britian. Their treatment was later repaid when Churchill was defeated for re-election after WWII.

Consider that if the British had lost the Battle of Britain, the US would have stood alone in Europe and it would have had to mount attacks from the US until a foothold would have been made in North Africa. We cannot underestimate the the British resolve to fight the Germans and defend their nation.

Brilliant, still brings a lump to the throat.

As a son of a dad who was born in Hammersmith in 1901, now I am a US citizen (California) by birth. I can say I am glad Britain did NOT loose the Battle of Britain, and yes I have read more then one book on the subject in my 60 plus years, cheers

It is a myth that Britain stood entirely alone against the Luftwaffe - good propaganda but somewhat lacking in accuracy.

By the RAF’s own statistics, about 20% of the pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain came from 13 countries other than Britain (595 out of 2,937). For example, there were so many Poles and Czechs that each nationality had two of its own squadrons within the RAF, as well as men scattered throughout other British squadrons. Canada transferred an entire squadron of its own air force—complete with planes—for Britain’s defense, but several other Dominions contributed valuable manpower. New Zealand sent more pilots (127) than any other Dominion, followed by Canada (113), South Africa (25), and Australia (32). The Irish contributed 10 pilots, and there were even 3 pilots from Rhodesia, 1 from Jamaica, and 1 from Barbados.

Many of the Commonwealth pilots were utilised in leadership and training positions. Sir Keith Park (a New Zealander) took command of No. 11 Group, responsible for the fighter defence of London and southeast England, taking the brunt of the Luftwaffe's air attacks. The famous Polish 303 Squadron was initially commanded by Johnny Kent, a Canadian, and another Canadian, “Butch” Barton, took charge of 249 Squadron.

The heroism and courage of the all the pilots who flew for the RAF during the battle was extraordinary, but Britain’s “lone” stand against Nazi oppression was crucially aided by hundreds of citizens from many other countries as well.

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How come American school kids think they won the battle of Britain .......must be something to do with Tony Blair .

I like the UK before the post-colonial invasion . We were all English then

Very good, thanks.

Never surrender

thanks British air force and people.

It makes me proud knowing that we beat a better equipped, more numerous & better engineered force, yet again with only our determination, intelligence and fighting spirit.
Our simpler design of aircraft.....easier to fly, more manoeuvrable and easier to repair are far more valuable characteristics for dogfights in a drawn out war than the Nazi ideals of speed and firepower. Hurricanes could be patched up in a day. Spitfires could out-turn the 109. This meant we had an (almost) endless stream of Hurricanes to take out the bombers and the spitfire had a great advantage in the dogfights against the 109 with manoeuvrability because they found it easier to dodge fire when being chased and could soon reverse the roles. Radar was also a great advantage in determining when and where the attacks where coming.

The equal of the 109? Hmmm..... The Spitfire had 13 seconds of ammunition. The 109 could fire its machine guns for 55 seconds, Secondly, the 109's cannons could fire armour-piercing shells - it had considerably more firepower than the Spitfire. Thirdly, the 109's engine had direct fuel injection. The Merlin use carburetters. These were prone to flooding the engine, causing the plane to stall. The 109 could out dive and out climb the Spitfire and, in the right hands of an experienced pilot, out turn the Spitfire too. Incidentally, all of the 109's superior qualities - the use of cannons and fuel injection, were all later incorporated into the Spitfire

Please fellows Britons, let us all take a moment to remember Sir Winston Churchill. For without him, capitulatation was the order of the war council. For without him America would never have been convinced to join the effort. For without him Europe would still be be drapped in swastikas. For without him the great British empire may have crumbled. We are eternally grateful. May Sir Winston never be forgotten for the rest if time. RIP our greatest Prime minister

Back in them days we was all like English lions. It was the glory of England that we was hitting parkys but didn't have time to wonder why. The Chingford boys was on about the fucking skinhead but for us it was Shiltzy and Greavzy and the glory of Hurstzy during 1966 when the world was going mental about all that glory it was the full English. We. Thought fuck all about all the other stuff. England and saint George was what we was hitting foreigners for.

Dunkirk was the most important evacuation, but there were several others that increased the number of effectives returned to service. the total number was over 500k, or 550k.
Mitchell was dead by 1936or38, he and Dowding were the one-two punch that blunted the Nazi invasion plans. Dowding's intelligence saved the British Empire, no doubt!

The "big wing" was conceived by Douglas Bader and continued by Lee Mallory while Bader was a POW in Colditz.

Hugh Dowding = good guy = punished
Lee Mallory = no good guy = rewarded
It's all about Politics and Power !!!

Very interesting documentary - I had not previously heard in other documentaries about the background political wranglings going on, and the jealousy concerning Park and Dowding. Whilst the RAF's fending off of the Luftwaffe and preventing the invasion of Britain makes me proud to be British, the fact that those directly responsible for that achievement were not given their due recognition is frustrating and frankly shameful.

The battle of britain 1940 it was never in Britain,,,,,

I LOVE the UNITED KINGDOM! I was born and raised an American. I have admired the people of Great Britain ever since I could read. I love the culture and the long, proud history of that great empire. When I was 18 years old I was serving with the United States Marines . I was thousands of miles from home fighting in a very unpopular war. The thing that mean’t the most to the men serving was the mail we would receive from home. It was a connection to home that helped us survive the insanity of war. I had a young lady I was engaged to and planned to marry when I returned. It wasn’t long after I got overseas thatI stopped receiving mail from her. Then one day I got a letter saying she was breaking up with me and getting married. I was crushed! About a month later at mail call I received a package the size of a shoe box. When I looked at the return address it was from London, U.K.
I had to check the address to make sure it was my mail. It was mine. Since I didn’t know anyone in the U.K. I had no idea what it was or who it was from. WhenI opened it the box was full of greeting cards , drawings and notes wishing me well. The box had come from school children in London, U.K. I was stunned. What those children sent me was so overwhelming and kind. It restored my faith in people. What they did revived my lagging spirt and restored hope. I will never forget that act of kindness . I LOVE THE UNITED KINGDOM! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I lost the box along with the return address. I was able to find how they got my name. The U.S. Marine Corps has a magazine called THE LEATHERNECK. The magazine has a section that encourages readers to be a PEN PAL.
That’s where I think they got my Name and Unit.

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Dowding was however well portrayed in the movie 'Battle of Britain', by Lawrence Olivier, and that could be his lasting claim to fame in the long term. I remember as a boy staying with my grandad (wing commander Geoffrey Cole RAF ret'd) in Folkestone Kent seeing the flight of 3 ,Heinkel 111s overflying the White cliffs of Dover during the film making. They were on loan from the Spanish air force, as were the (re-engined) Me 109s also shown in that excellent film

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How can anyone believe the battle for Britain really took place in the skies by an handfull of dashing young men in there fancifull flying machines how can anyone believe the Pompus overwheight Hermann Goering could actually be mentally fit to be trusted with anything after the Nazi farce of Dunkirk and how can anyone believe Hitler could not clear the thirty odd miles of the Dover strait yet could invade Soviet Russia with three million men spread out over an three thousand mile wide front?..Is history an lie with the truth never told because the war of imperialism over communism has never ended and with this misinformation masqueraded as history complete with Churchill alcoholic fuelled speeches then it's clearly still yet to be won..!!

Thanks for the video bless all the pilots of all the nations that fought with us in the battle of Britain with out them we would of been under German rule. Thank you!!❤💙

Stuffy Dowding was stuffy and didn't give a damn about politics

His big wigs pensioned Hugh Dowding off so that he would not receive an end of war bounty. Unlike others like Montgomery and such like who picked up a bounty of around £100,000 each. I wounder how much Hugh Dowding's boss got, as a bounty, he who promoted the big wing theory that would have utterly failed during the Battle of Britain, uh!..don't tell me...um'...£100,000 bounty and lived in luxury for the rest of his days.

It wasn't the Spits nor the Hurricanes who won the Battle of Britain...it was WINSTON....his resolve alone carried the English to victory in WW2...like it or not, it was Churchill and his will...without him, Britain would've folded like the French and been a lackey to Hitler as the French were. Somebody else credits Hugh Dowding and yes, he deserves credit. But it was Winston who made England stand alone during the darkest of days. So dust off the statues of Churchill...he was no racist and he saved the "bacon" of the English people.

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We owe our lives to these brave souls! One of the few things that makes me proud to be English.

The Wehrmacht AND the Luftwaffe? Wehrmacht means "Armed Forces" and includes the Luftwaffe. Why do people still insist on saying Wehrmacht when talking about the German army? It was, and still is, called the Heer.