How The RAF Defeated The Luftwaffe On Eagle Day | Battle Of Britain | War Stories
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- Adlertag or Eagle Day was Herman Göring’s grand Luftwaffe operation to destroy RAF Fighter Command in Britain and pave the way for Operation Sea Lion and the German invasion to commence. But despite boasting to Hitler that he would have achieved the RAF’s destruction within days he was unable to beat them. But how were the RAF able to hold strong and push this formidable air force back?
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Make that claim when you accurately represent the aircraft. Me109s had inverted V engines.
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The Battle of Britain was in every sense a brutal head to head fight for survival. Thank god for the Merlin engine, the Spitfire, and the brave British pilots. And as an American let's not forget the U.S. sat out the fight against Germany from September 1939 through December 1941. 2 years 3 months of watching it happen while the British fought for their lives pretty much alone.
A true Brit would be to polite to answer you and just quietly hit the like button and go back to their cup of tea, as a Australian and being much like the American's being another naughty child of mother England yes they were hung out to dry and the US made lots of money selling them liberty ships full of supplies for two years but it hey that's business and war is just another venture of big business to be honest.
Pearl Harbor made the US the greatest superpower to ever exist by the end of it all and rich beyond her dreams on a global scale for generations.
There was the Eagle Squadron, it was composed of American pilots.
@@walterthompson8697 Volunteers who had no sanction from the USA Govt.
with this loneliness it's a bit wrong .... get a little knowledge about other squadrons ... not English as well as pilots from other countries also taking part in the Battle of England
What about the Polish Pilots.......
This documentary is certainly is the best I’ve seen yet. When I was young I was always fascinated with war stories,movies ,comics etc Now I see the real cost of war, the human cost. I’m often brought to tears. Wonderful work, From Nova Scotia,Lester
In ALL the 'battle-of-britain' documentaries I've seen, little or zero is said about RAF Ground Crews. Without these very resourcefull people, the RAF would have LOST !!!!
I've see BoB documentaries with mechanics/armorers interview.
cant wait- feature film about oil changes-Oscar winning scene- "dammit Jim, pass me that Aershell 100"!!
We don’t care about Britain the Germans where more interesting
@@robbesymons1866 yea, the hemmoroid of unchecked facism facinating
More like without American help they would’ve been speaking German in Britain
Never in the field of human cinematography, has so many documentaries benefited from one film.
Brilliant comment!
Propaganda!
Great comment dude, I just can't watch another battle of Britain film, lol, Might skip to the ending, hopefully there will be a twist
true but most of this footage shown here is not in the film it's footage that's not been used :0)
For WW1 documentaries it's The Battle Of The Somme and All Quiet On The Western Front.
Ironically, the most used clip from the first is a scene that was staged for the original movie.
Dad was RAF, he’s long gone now , ground crew.
Never forget that there were nearly 600 pilots from 15 different countries who flew in the RAF during the period of the Battle of Britain
485 non British Pilots from a total of 1822 RAF fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain, or 26.53%
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 wiki has it at 574 out of a total of 2927 so just under 20%.
@@CB-fz3li I've just transcribed the figures mentioned at the end of the "battle of Britain" movie.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Not sure what criteria they were using that explains the difference although the film does miss off some nationalities. My quick googling seems to show a concensus at 20%
@@CB-fz3li I'm happy to accept that... I just wish to put the constant "oh it was the Poles", "oh it was the Czechs", "oh it was the Canadians" etc in context of their percentage contribution, and so highlight the SMALL but important service that they provided.
0:26 it was 1969…I watched the filming from the cliffs at St margarets near Dover.
My family owns an RC spitfire that was used in the filming of the battle of Britain along with a paper of authentication. Its all packed away in two 6 foot wooden boxes. Love that film and watch it regularly. All the aircraft of that era on both sides have a fantastic look about them. Beautiful instruments of death that fly with such grace!
SAD TO HAVE THEM IN BOXES THEY SHOULD BE ON FULL VIEW TO SEE HOW BEAUTY FULL THEY REALLY ARE !!!
if the brits only had 5 f16 fighter jets with all its modern instruments and ammo it would have been enough
@@allanhughes7859 just go look at the real thing
@ Mark Stock
Why not put it on display at a museum?
That's your pension sorted then......
The German aircraft that appeared in this film were brought in from Spain. The Spanish airforce in those days was still using German aircraft from WWII ( Heinkels H-1.11 and Messerschmidt's Me-109's). These aircraft were slightly adapted. They were equiped with Hispano-Suiza engines.
I noticed that, in fact War Stories videos seem to only portray HS powered 109's. Even though the ME109E was the prevalent model I have never seen one in a WS video. Lazy, licensing, or just ignorance of the facts (inexcusablefir a documentary producer), who can say?
@@pdxaudio The real reason? NO surviving flying examples of the German Bf109 were available at the time BoB was filmed. The Spanish Air Force were just retiring their post war Hispano-built HA1112s. It wasn't until the early 2000s that sufficient wrecks from the the former Soviet block allowed some to now be assembled to a flying condition - one currently in the States was reassembled from the parts from FIVE wrecks!
They actually used Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. Both the Heinkels and the 109‘s
MERLINS
All I can think to say is, "Thank you, boys. Thank you."
This was brilliant. Using the 1960's film footage was so well done!
I had watched some of the episodes in this series and found then incredible... That was about a year ago. A few days ago, I began to watch them again, but this time with my new 3D Glasses... It's mind blowing... My glasses are Not the type using a Red lens, on one side and a Blue on on the other... Mine are "ChromaDepth 3D". I'm in Canada so the Shipping was quite expensive, but I think well worth the money... Watching all of these videos in 3D is a whole new experience 😃 Thanks
Sorry to point this out, but it was the Hurricanes that made up two thirds of Britain's air force. I understand that people would fall in love with the graceful eliptical lines of the Spitfire, and apparently she handled better than the Hurricanes. But, the facts are the Hurries carried the greater burden. They should get more recognition.
That is not a fact, at the fall of France there were 250 of each in service, more Hurricanes were used during the battle because they could be produced quicker, they werent as good as a Spitfire.
Wonderfully spoken narrative by the narrator he did not try to make his name with stupid accents and voice changes etc,well done a real gem for posterity and our grandchildren. Be Blessed and thankyou for good historical portrate.
Yes, totally agree. I’m teaching my son and hi love Battle of britan and hi became history teacher under my influence. T. 👍👍
Remember brave Polish pilots of RAF Poland squadrons.
Squadron 303 comes to mind.
Ronald Kellet comes to mind. 303 Squadron leader.
Johnny Kentowski comes to mind.
thank you for the special video as show how much are give few people to keep safety
all rest in peace great boys who lost life in wars
Shout out to 303, also funny we complain about weather but it’s saved us in the past on numerous occasions
303 is one of European calibers for sure.
Also 303 Polish Squadron famously aggressive Battle of Britain Spitfire unit.
Why? has someone "complained" about the Poles?
Sheildaig Bencher,
303 had Hurricanes and went after bombers.
British 603 was the top scoring confirmed killed squadron in the battle and mostly got Bf109 fighters.
Weeddegree
A shout out to ALL Squadrons that fought in the Battle of Britain.
Just sayin .. from start to end i enjoyed watching this well put together was hook though out the whole program and learnt more than i new befor hand well done huge thumbs up
Fantastic video ! The ground explosions, fighter n bomber planes look so real, etc.
Kudos for the commentary, research, special effects etc. Anticipating ur next one.
They were " real " the Spanish Airforce were still flying the He 111 and Me 109s built under licence,and the Spitfires were real that you see flying sadly only three Hurricanes could be found that could still fly for the film. The Stukas were the problem as there are none that fly.
A lot of footage is from the movie "Battle of Britain" made in '69.
Great series. You are humbled by it all.
It was the radar that really help it's meager air force. The British showed the Germans they were not the superior race.
Hmm...What if Göring hadn't changed the targets, to give the impression of an imminent sea landing. The timetable for fighting the real danger, the Bolshevism in the East (with its upgrading gigantic armys against the more and more obsolet German equipment) was already tight and England needed to be on the defensive, at least for a little while. But otherwise the Germans never considered the English an inferior race. Or in other words: "I don't like this war against England, they are so similar to us ...A.H."
The Germans bommed radar but they thought it was insignificant for the victory of the war h ad they made sure to wipe out radar the Germans would have had the brits on their knees
@@abraham5230 ha ha ha! But they didn't did they!!!
@@abraham5230 No matter what the Germans did, they would have lost the war.
Less is said about the human ground spotters. Even without radar, the human ground spotters would have made a difference. More than enough time for the ground spotters to warn Bigging Hill, Kenley airfields etc.
Thanks for putting written facts on screen war stories. Helps visualise
Such an underrated movie. Great film.
Yes it is. Today if it was made there would way too much CGI used. Wouldn't even come close to the original. The dog fights just wouldn't look real.
Yeah. Especially the bit at the beginning where the German infantry gets loaded onto open top barges for the invasion, only to unload at the *end* of the film and march away, like they had been stood there waiting in the barges for the entire film. :D
BATTLE FOR BRITAIN is one of the best ww2 era movies. Mainly because of the authenticity of the production.
Great series!
Road Dahl, the famous writer, was a RAF pilot in the Mediterranean and also fought in a situation where the luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAf. He said in one battle, the Luftwaffe had so many planes that they probably struggled to hit the RAF pilots without hitting their own planes as well. Wonder if that was the same over Britain.
"They have sown the wind; they shall reap the whirlwind." Sir Arthur
Wonderful statue here in Whitehall of this hero..
@@Hartley_Hare The very definition if ever there was a person to attribute it to..
Man of the moment
Proper
@@DaveSCameron ignore whimpish sock cucker's, who have enjoyed decades of peaceful life, off the backs of hero's who died terrible deaths, including my brother.
@@MrDaiseymay And why would I take this comment on.?
Amazing.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few!
Great info and production but you left the story unfinished and on a cliffhanger.
Right. Is another one coming?
Nicely done using some used and unused footage from The Battle of Britain movie.
Training manuals are written by deskbound nerds who never saw combat...
Goring made a number of catastrophic decisions throughout the war.
Because he was off his tree on morphine and cocaine the entire time.
Thats because all were taking speed/ crack... And you kno crack heads cant handle anything; didnt say no to drugs
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My I recommend reading "The Luftwaffe: creating the operational air war. 1918-1940" by James S. Corum. Before you go making silly comments.
@@stevenwiederholt7000 Goering was a cocaine addict and prone to making stupid mistakes, like underestimating the RAF in 1940.
Helping Adolf start ww2 was one of them.
I have learned more, and thought I knew most uof the battle of britain story
Love the Film Battle of Britain , the Heinkel's being inaccurate as they were Spanish built Casa 111's with Merlin's hence the big intakes still look great ..
So as 109s! But very beautiful move. Shame for cutout scenes, should left them in!! 👍👍🍺
At least one "Casa" started life as a Heinkel this was found out many years later, when it was refurbished.
Good video, well done.
... but...The "Big Wing" was not deployed on 24 Aug as proposed by this video, therefore it was not late on that day to protect Manston. It was first deployed on 7 Sep.
Very good coverage of the severe attrition of RAF pilots and the unqualified lads that were coming in fresh from the OTU's. This cannot be ignored as the central concern of the battle, as Dowding predicted.
The battle was won thanks to Hugh Dowding and brave pilots despite the idiotic Mallory's Big Wing!
Anyone have a link to the next episode or the playlist of this?
The luftwaffe underestimated the marvelous engineering of the Spitfire, not even the ME109 was able to challenge that fighter plane.
Without allied pilots the outcome would be different, give credit where it is due and mention these pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain...!
The biggest reason Germany lost the Battle of Britain was the Bf-109. It was a fine aircraft but she was not a long-range escort fighter which is what they needed.
No drops tanks. The Luftwaffe had no drop tanks yeet!
The main reasons they lost were radar, fighting over British territory, Dowding and Parkes management.
John Hanson,
And the Spitfire and Hurricane.
Glory given to the "Few" is entirely justified but the "Many" and their sacrifices are often overlooked, why?
That thumbnail graphic is awesome...Say what you want about ww2 era Germany, but their uniforms, aircraft (and markings), and most of their other equipment, vehicles and weapons were cool looking....
Especially when on fire or blown to pieces
Designed by Hugo Boss.
Most of it was an illusion, they still used horse and cart, to transport equipment and soldiers.
@@stevewhite3424 Fair enough....
Cool looks doesn't win wars!
They saved the world
Adler Tag, the turning point of the Battle of Britain. But, with no strategic bombers, no easy way to destroy the internetted radar system, a tough foe that had no incentive to negotiate, no way to cross the Channel with 1/2 its navy sunk in Norway, and leadership that had its eyes east, not west...it's unsurprising the air war was lost and the Luftwaffe slinked away to Russia...
The Germans couldn't beat the brits
Never Forget..
Part two perhaps?
The Luftwaffe's two week concentrated effort in late August and early September 1940 to destroy the RAF stations was an unmitigated disaster for them. Not even one of the RAF sector stations was taken out and the Luftwaffe itself lost far more planes in trying to do this than they themselves destroyed.
"Luftwaffe itself lost far more planes" (AND aircrew..... don't forget the more important aircrew they they kindly donated to our PoW camp jamboree)
Indeed. Throughout the Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe lost four times as many aircrew as the RAF. Already by the end of August the RAF had more available pilots than the Luftwaffe.
The Luftwaffe lost over 1000 aircrew in the Battle of France. After surrender, France gave them all back to Germany.
Our "allies" over the Channel made the "narrow margin" even more narrow . . . . hello, what's going on with them today?
@@EllieMaes-Grandad When France surrendered they had no option but to release captured German military personnel.
@@maconescotland8996 True, as far as it goes, but British military authorities (Churchill too) urged that prisoners be sent to France's overseas territories.
They could see the risks appearing, as could the French politicians who wanted to gain favours when the surrender happened.
A lot of British air fields had bays shape in an E these made bombing of airfields ineffective the bays were amazing in protecting aircraft.
Ich liebe den Sound der alten Flugzeugmotoren…..schade,das es nur noch so wenige gibt…
In 1969 i lived in Folkestone Kent and worked as a film extra for two weeks on the movie The Battle of Britain at RAF Hawkinge it was one of my best experiences watching and listening to the Spitfires and the Merlin V12 engines one day they sent two Spitfires out over the channel and after a couple of miles or so they where just two little dots then they turned around and started back very low to the sea and as we watched and they got closer they disappeared below the horizon end of the airfield (RAF Hawkinge) is up high on top of the cliff overlooking the English channel so for a couple of minuets they where out of site then all of a sudden the two of them appeared as they rose above the end of the airfield and done a victory roll as the flew over the airfield just above our heads and we all ducked they where so low to the ground and that sound i will never forget it, that was one of the best days i ever had.
A Glorious memory to have shared with us there....moments such as those would live with me till the end of my days also. Thanks for sharing.
23:45 He goes onto say "And of course we've got them taped" Does he mean Radar or the breaking of the Enigma code?
Melodramatic introductory statement
The Polisch pilots where the best fighters!!!
They should have been as unlike all the other allied nations pilots at the time they'd been filtered through 9 months of previous combat so only the best Polish pilots made it to the UK, as a result they had the most combat experience of all the assembled RAF pilots, though the rest quickly caught up with them. But we still thank them for their service, which is witnessed at every rememberance day parade in the Great Britain, where the Polish nation is ALWAYS well represented.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 but at the victory parade on the occasion of the end of WWII, yours did not invite ... sad
@@mariuszkowalski6472 If you're aware of your own countries history, at the time of the victory parade in 1946 the west was still negotiating with the Soviet Union, the "liberators" of your country. The Soviets were wary of nationalism and at a very sensitive time, its not good tactics to upset the people you're trying to bargain with. As it turned out, the Soviets weren't playing ball with regards to democracy in their newly "liberated" east European "buffer states". So what could the west do? Start WW3 ? (with nukes!!!). The Brits that everyone is now taught to hate, did the only thing in their power to compensate the Poles, and gave FULL UK residency and citizenship rights to ALL Polish service personnel who had served in the British armed forces during WW2 together with their families. You can still read the "1947 Polish Resettlement Act" at the UK government website. Obviously not all Poles chose to accept the kind offer, and decided to return to Poland, but by all accounts, lived to regret it.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I agree with what you write, but still there is disgust and sadness. My grandfather came back to Poland and he was in the army of Anders, who fought in the Middle East and in Italy near Monte Casino ... if he regretted it, I don't know he returned to his family .. .so with this "kindness" it happens differently in the post-war history ... greetings
@@mariuszkowalski6472 I hope your grandfather managed to live his life as well as can be hoped through those tortured years in Poland Mariusz, Thank you for his service & All the best to you as well.
Reminds me of the 1944 war movie set in the town of Chillingbourne.
Tank you My farther was one of those,
JML
SPOILER ALERT:
The Nazis lost World War II
It didn't go to well for Here Meyer did it...
And were collectively responsible for over 20 million human lives in the conflict.
World War Two: Electric Boogaloo
So did the allies
@Dan Didnot So according to you, Germany did not surrender in May of 1945? I think you are out of your mind or were totally asleep during history class.
The 109:s was in fact spanish made, with Merlin engines!!! // Lars
9:56 W for William?? How much research would it have taken to find out what the phonetic call sign for 'W' is?!
cheap vid
not a lot of reserch
Nice video from excellent historic channel
great video
@@rajaraja-jz4hw agreed you friend
You have to feel a bit sorry for that poor hangar.. can't count how many times the same one got blown up! A bit distracting but overall a good doc.
What a strange place to end a video...
They said at the beginning that it's part of a series.
@@nonamegame9857 It has been a great series. The best I've seen on the BOB.
Park and Dowding did it.
No single individual(s) was responsible for the success (non-defeat) against the Luftwaffe. It was an all-hands effort. In fact, the Battle of Britain was more of a draw, as the Germans started drawing their forces down, and relocating air assets to the Russian front. If they had stopped bombing London and instead concentrated on knocking down the Home Chain radar defense network and RAF airfields, the outcome may have been much different.
This part 4/5 episode...an on going timeline battle of britain doc series.....
The air crews did it And not just the British ones There were pilots from all over the empire and dominions as well as from occupied Europe (notably the poles,who were outstanding, by all accounts) It was certainly not down to one or two officers
@@amramjose It sure was a draw. The brits draw a line in the English Channel and said, Germans not permitted west of this line, or else.
There wasnt a problem with the power as the radar was three levels deep.and each station had back up both the the Observation Corp as well as having back up sub stations to take over in case the main station was hit and put out of action
Goering was close to forcing the RAF to retreat into the Midlands when the errant RAF bombs on Berlin led to the diversion of the Luftwaffe onto London. That gave the RAF relief from attacks on their bases, plus allowing the powerful 'big wings' to form.
It was the Luftwaffe erroniously bombing London not the "errant RAF bombs on Berlin" that led to the diversion of the Luftwaffe onto London as the main target. The RAF bombed Berlin in RETALIATION for the Luftwaffe bombing London, this action by the RAF was not therefore "errant" as you say in your comment.
No he wasnt, the RAF didnt abandon any airfield. Why would the RAF retreat to the midlands, the Bf 109 could just to say reach london.
Has anyone noticed a 2 seat TrMk9 spitfire trainer in the movie?
The luftwaffe lost more aircraft than the royal air force lost aircraft.
They lost. and back off..
Correct. The Luftwaffe lost 1.8 planes to every one RAF plane.
Normally on these type of sites RAF losses are reported as fighter losses just over 900( spitfire and hurricane losses)When losses of other fighter types are include this rises to 1050. Also Bomber Command losses of 350 aircraft and Coastal Command losses of 160 aircraft need to be factored in.
Luftwaffe losses amounted to 1650 aircraft to enemy action with Losses from other causes bring the totall to 1950 aircraft. RAF totals usually do not include other losses
I hope you have a part two to this ?
They said at the beginning that it would be a series.
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". 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.
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🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 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 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 two pilots from the Caribbean were both of white British descent).
Computer sims and re-enactments are no replacement for real footage.
Real footages are rare. That's why they try to get it right from the real 💯% participants of the fights.
@@tesfayelemma9734 Reel footage from WWII is some of the most abundantly real footage of any war-time period. There is nothing rare about it.
@@AngryHateMusic Of course, yes. It's just internal part (to confirm a kill in a 🐕 fight). They want to 🎥 to mimic the external part to show the environment, how many Luftwaffe or RAF were there in a particular time and location. I agree on the abundance of cockpit reels.
Praise God radar and the royal airforce
Without the help from all the Allied Forces, England would have fallen. The RAF were not the only dog in the fight.
Yes they wre, all the various squadrons were part of the RAF.
Precious few allied forces in Britain in 1940.
80% of the pilots and 100% of the planes and radar were British.
Without Britain the allies lose WW2.
The finest hour for Britain during the Second World War. Thank goodness we had the Hawker Hurricane fighter. It was overshadowed by the Spitfire, which I think is unjust. Yes, the Spitfire was Britain's most modern fighter, but without the Hurricane, the RAF would have lost the Battle of Britain
Likewise without the Spitfire.... taking care of the fighters while the hurris' mainly took out the bombers.
The number of Hurricanes was important given its high attrition rate (worst kill ratio of the battle, despite the poles/czechs efforts). It was not really competetive though and obsolete by Oct 1940.
@@bobsakamanos4469 Why add the phrase "Despite the Poles and Czech's best efforts"? The highest hurricane kill tally in the battle of Britain was that of British Sergeant pilot James "Ginger" Lacey flying with 501 Sqd.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 It's about statistics. More success by Poles raised the Hurricane overall kill ratio, but it was still the lowest.
@@bobsakamanos4469 Where's you evidence that the Poles alone "raised the Hurricane overall kill ratio". EVERY Hurricane squadron in Fighter Command raised the "overall kill ratio".
Where is part 2?
So wheres part 2?!
The biggest mistake the Luft made was in sending their fighters up to cover the bombers going up. Which took a minimum of 30 minutes off their fuel.
They should have had a light fighter cover over the launch airfields that did not escort all the way. Then the main fighter escorts and air to air (fighter hunters) launch later and catch up to escort the last stages and do their own missions. So many losses for Germany were the result of running low on fuel and having to leave in a hurry or else, which led to many more losses as they retreated, instead of being able to stay in the fight and get their kills. I hold this more important than staying on the radar missions early as the biggest reason.
Nary a mention of the hundreds of foreign fighters that volunteered and flew for the RAF in the days that finally turned the tide.
Never is, They always like to portray Brittain as being alone, however without the commonwealth contribution england would have been raped and pillaged.
@@kiwidiesel
The Royal Navy mean anything to you? The giant obstacle that the Germans were not prepared to engage?
And no, the Luftwaffe wouldn't help. They did not have appropriate training in Anti-Shipping duties in 1940 and had no suitable Torpedo Planes until 1942.
@@youraveragescotsman7119 Considering this entire tread is referring to Eagle day i'm not sure what you mentioning the Navy has to do with anything but My statement still stands as the Navy wasn't 100% British manned.
@@kiwidiesel the 2 Polish squadrons accounted by themselves for more than 10% of the total German losses
@@vanpallandt5799 Yes they were savage hunters that more than proved a point, and some historians hint to the Polish boys having taught a lot of others how to fight in the air with their tactics and aggression. Sir Keith Park was a New Zealand born and bred chap also.
Quite odd to see Heinkel 111s and ME 109s with Merlin engines (courtesy of Spain . . .)
Didn't spain use licence built DB601's?
@@kiwidiesel Nope - the HA 1112 Buchon (that's what those are) had a Merlin 500. They built a few with a Hispano engine, but since the Me 109G had an assymetrically-cambered fin (the wrong way for the Hispano engine), they dropped that in favour of the Merlin. I'd guess they followed through with the engines on their Heinkels.
@@dafyddllewellyn6636 awesome, thanks for this little gem that has eluded a Merlin fiend like myself.
Definitely not inverted V-12s
The Spanish Air Force were not being helpful in the production of this film,Rolls Royce made contact with the Spanish that engines and spares would no longer be forthcoming seems that the problem was resolved.
For the film the 4th largest airforce was amassed by the producers. These were both allied and axis and many are now in private hands
There were no Axis planes in the movie, Spain wasnt in the Axis.
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Not entirely true, even though they officially were neutral (just like Sweden, which wasn't the case at all). Franco and Adolf supported each other, which is why the German navy had access to Spanish ports and Spanish soldiers fought for Adolf. Plus they exchanged various materials. So even though they claimed to be neutral, that wasn't the case.
Goering starts an ariel battle in the middle of the month of August?...Surely June should have been the real date...!!
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not a lot of reserch
Never in the field of human literature was so much written by so many about a battle the Luftwaffe could never have won.
They could and would have one very easily.all they had to do was resume their attacks on radar and Britain wouldn't have been able to defend themselves
@@abraham5230 I would recommend that anyone interested in this period of ww2 should read Dowdings book,its a long time since I read it but I seem to remember the summer air battles over southern England are only briefly mentioned, a page and half at most certainly no reference to any so called battle of Britain,simply put Dowding was only feeding into the battle what he could afford to loose,the bulk of the RAF squadrons were sat on airfields protecting the industrial midlands and north.just leaving the so called ' few' in the southern sector,also the British aircraft industry was far better organised with new shadow factories producing more aircraft than the Germans.
Of course they could have won it, your logic is that they didnt so they couldnt. Leigh Mallory war gamed it in 1941 with his big wing tactics, and he lost.
The RAF was dangerously low on planes at one point
What would they do without the borrowed footage from the 1969 Battle of Britain movie?
Many years ago I read of an assessment by war games analysts. Their view was that a German invasion would not succeed. aircraft and ships could pull back from the south coast then come back to wreck any invasion forces. I suppose the same can be seen in Ukraine, an organised defence will overcome invasion forces, I believe it has been said that you need ten troops to subdue one defender. It is all hindsight.
Battle of Britain | War Stories i like the music the name soundtrunk? pls
Burning alive in the cockpit must be one of the worst ways to go.
Why are no ME110s mentioned or depicted in your article, or in the film?
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Because there were none flying at the time and they didnt play a huge part in the battle.
According to Hollywood the Americans won battle of Britain, this film did not make that mistake.
The lessons (daylight bombing by medium bombers) learned in the Spanish Civil War did not fully apply to WWII. Sometimes always fighting the last war.
How the world would be now if Britain had stayed out of the war like AH asked
so glad we didn't
Also, had we lost the battle of Britain and been invaded, from where would the allies have invaded Germany?
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And Russia would have been lost without the Atlantic convoys.
Once Russia was gone America wouldn't have been able to win.
Due to the huge resources Germany would have gained. I don't think people realise the huge affect Britain losing would really have had
So i watch this entire thing amd when ragle day comes it ends. WTF.
Göring gets a lot of the blame for the Luftwaffe’s mistakes and shortcomings throughout WW2. Ultimately, he was responsible did but he was also misled by some of his own subordinates. For example, he was misled by Jeschonek regarding the ability of the Luftwaffe to supply the 6th Army at Stalingrad. He was also responsible for many of the Luftwaffe’s other blunders and short-comings (e.g insufficient aircraft production, even aircraft design faults) but Göring gets the blame - I suppose as his CO, Göring should have fired Jeschonek much earlier or even not have appointed him at all to the roles that he had.
Jeschonek, a self assured but ultimately weak planner who blew his own brains out when grim reality broke into his fantasy world.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I agree. I think he was a fantasist who's ego had been massaged for too long. History has been kind to him by making him obscure.
His failings don't deserve that obscurity.
Phim hay
1:32 reminds me of chancellor Jinping with his current war rhetoric..
I wonder why the brave German fighter pilots and bomber crews come off so badly.
I’ve often wondered about how many German aircraft returned to base damaged and put out of action and needed repair.
Lots. Many were not repaired either. Spares were in short supply as home production switched back to civillian goods. The Nazis thought the war was over.
Was said on another doc. that many planes were shipped back to factory for repair. RAF craft repaired in the field.
@@flybobbie1449 RAF damaged aircraft were sent to the Civilian Repair Organisation...
Grandad serviced aircraft at Walsall aerodrome in WW2, not sure if any of those were damaged, probably a mix.
You "conveniently" forgot the essential contribution of Polish, Czechoslovak and other nations fighter pilots during the battle of Britain.
Also "conveniently" left out the Italians and assortment of other nations who flew with the luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.
Yes but 80% were British.
NO! We are constantly reminded by these nations.
There is always a 303 squadron bore on these discussions.
They were fighting for thier own countries though, using British intelligence resources and planes , it's not the same as fighting for Britain, if Britain had lost then , all those countries would be completely lost , I'm pretty sure Poland was already lost by that point , so there was no other way to fight for your country
Germany after the two Battles of Narvik, had no Kreigsmarine that could support an invasion.
Looks like a lot of footage from the 1969 movie of the same name.
Spitfire better looking but, the Hurricane won the BoB. Could take more damage and be repaired easier than the Spitfire..
HAWKER MADE GREAT PLANES WITH AMAZING DURABILITY....
They both won it, although its been said without the Spitfire they might not have.
Spot on