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on connaît Closterman et on l'admire. Son jugement, son regard, son courage. Mais son dernier commentaire sur 14-18 me fait plaisir car il y a longtemps que je pense que nos chefs militaires sont responsables de la tuerie. faire sortir des hommes armés d'une baïonnette face à des mitrailleuses ! Et il y a encore des places et des rues Joffre et consorts !

Just came across this....amazed by the coolness & courageous narrative, with the visually stunning pictures

Oh my god these men risked their lives for freedom and their beliefs , and I look today at so called Great Britain , shame shame .

This is the raw material which gave rise the works -- the sensibility --- of Shakespeare

The British and their solid brass cajones….

"I got him!" 😂

My Dad was a Halifax navigator. 58 missions. DFC.

the noobz who bombs civilians at night, how brave ??!! lol

Great man...

I learnt of John Jackson and the 75th about 60 years ago, he was a legend way back then.

They were just young men , love you forever

We love you forever and always will be in debt to you !

Least we forget! We shall never surrender

That third piece of audio is a classic - cut in wax by a BBC sound engineer stuffed in the rear fuselage of F-Freddy of 207 Sqn flown by Sgt Ken Letford, with Wynford Vaughn Thomas recording his impressions 4 mikes high over Berlin 3/4th Sept 1943

WW II Bombers had CVR ? (Tape recorder were here in ~ 1940 ?) 'England gentlemen' by the way - Congratulation to their Fair Play.

Hero❤

false claimer of raf

Sorri...raphaal charls de.goulle...raphal...fire...scranbole...

My uncle don was 22 flying a spitfire with the canadian rcaf. He was shot down over Germany in 1945. Brave man who makes me proud.

I wonder how many of the planes they were shooting at were Allied planes.

Definitely a Yorkshireman in the mix in the first clip.

FYI: While P-51 Mustangs were in active use in Korea, the “New” USAF used different paint schemes for them. The P-51s included in this video are from the 352nd Fighter Group which was deactivated in November 1945 - a full 5 years before The Korean War officially started. P-51 Korean liveries are and were available for the making of this video.

Apparently only one was lost in action.

One of America's Greatest warriors !!! Wish We still had these kinds of Men .

Bader was one of the great leaders. The right man at the right time who remotivated the despondent 242 Sqn when the chips were down. He developed / trained some excellent leaders and built a talented fighting unit(s).

A story I recently read from a Lancaster Squadrons history👇 In the mid sixties my family and I were sitting in a small cafe in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Seated at another table sitting with his family was a very distinguished looking gentleman with a big handle bar moustache. My mother remarked that he kept looking at her. As he got up to leave he came over and said to mum, your Mary Wright aren't you? Mum said she was. He then said, the last time I saw you, you were in my office on a charge. Apparently she had been in charge of the ribbons denoting the Wing Commanders aircraft which were fixed to the wings and as she was crossing the airfield, two young airmen met her and said, bet you daren't put your stockings on the wings instead of those ribbons. She did and the gentleman now stood at our table said, "I didn't notice those stockings until I was over Berlin."

This was on the night of June 6th, 1944, not with the initial morning invasion. Hicks got the recording flown to London. There, at the Blue Network office, it was broadcast that night in the United States at 11:15 p.m. Eastern War Time on the Blue Network; not long after, the recording was played over the other networks, CBS, NBC and Mutual.

Those radio news reporters knew how to paint word pictures for the ear for a radio audience. This reporter Hicks was amazing. Great recording.

NBC Blue.

Transcript is quite useless.

“Ah they’re searching for us…Bastards.” Absolute legends

crazy ace combat vibes i love it

I think this, is propaganda, it sounds so ..

Legenda of battle aviation...

This is the Britain I love! God what a bunch of Heroes, to be alive during that time must have been every feeling under the sun, excitement and adrenaline filled misery! Make the most of some positive outcomes! Love hearing these gems!

What an incredible interview. Very penetrating, and comlex questions, answered concisely, frankly, and so completely!! What a very deep thinking, quick, and decisive mind. 👍

When I was about 8 I checked out a record from the library "Sounds of WWII" and it had this on it and I adored playing it. It also have Princess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose wishing the best of luck to the people of Britain. Also the D-Day landings and of course Chamberlain's sorrowful announcement that they were at war with Germany.... it was a fantastic record. They had one from WWI as well but it wasn't as exciting. Less on the spot recordings.

Bader was an incompetent, ill-disciplined insubordinate liability. He lost his legs due to reckless stunting against orders. He never understood Dowding's strategy for the BoB and with the other incompetent, Leigh-Mallory, introduced the tactic of the big wings. A counter-productive tactic at odds with Dowding's careful strategic planning. As a direct result RAF Hornchurch was put out of action for a week as he gave the Germans an unopposed bombing run. Dowding actually asked whose side he was on. Bader was detested by his fellow pilots. He was shot down and became a POW due to friendly fire. He went off his designated patrol over France and approached British aircraft from a direction from which they would only expect enemy aircraft. He got to stay in the armed forces as he was made a propaganda hero. See the book "Dowding and the Battle of Britain" authored by the only historian to whom Dowding entrusted his diaries.

The BF 109 was not the most produced aircraft of WW2 . People in the West are not aware that the Nazis fought a superpower from 1941 to 1945 that completely outprodiced the Nazis while fighting the equivelant of 5 DDays on a 2500 mile front. To include the US production is a joke when they had no Nazis panzer divisions on their soil.

Real Badass.. All man admire..

Ce pilote a bercé mon enfance et mon adolescence. Une recontre magnifique en 76.

No more brother wars. There are people who constantly set us fighting each other. Stop.

Probably recorded using a wire recorder which came before tape recorders, same principle. There were cassettes of wire that could be plugged into. Recording quality was good, mostly depending on the quality of the microphone and amplifier in the recorder.

Brother wars must cease. There are people who keep creating those wars among us.

Churchill sold Bomber Harris and these amazing men down the river!

Thanks to these exceptionally brave guys … we dont all have to speak bloody German!

…eminence gold…a wonderful man…pinball wizard of August and September 1940…

Son livre "appui feux sur oued helail" pierre closterman relate comment l'avion de guerre qu'il pilotait fut abattu par les moudjahidine ALGERIENS LORS DE LA BATAILLE MYTHIQUE DE DJEURF DANS LES AURES NEMENTCHAS...

Spine-chilling, nerve-wrecking and heartbreaking! Thanks for your efforts, guys! And a prayer for all the ones, we'l never hear...

Robin, no offence, but you looked better with the handlebar.