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00:10The End
00:36THE END
01:08THE END
01:33THE PAST WAS WRITTEN OFF, THE FUTURE UNKNOWN
01:46WITHIN HALF AN HOUR, 13,000 ALLIED TROOPS LANDED IN A JAPAN WHICH HAD BEEN ONLY A NAME, AN ENEMY,
01:53A TARGET
01:55AND STEPPED DOWN INTO A NEW ERA
02:05THE SYMBOLS OF WAR, THE SOLDIERS AND THE GUNS, LINGERED ON LIKE A MEMORY OF A NIGHTMARE
02:14ARMAMENTS OF YESTERDAY WERE PILED UP AGAINST TOMORROW
02:16AND IN TOKYO THE ALLIES PROCLAIMED A NEW DAY WITH THE FANFARES OF THE OLD
02:40THE UNITED NATIONS FIRST MET IN THE SAME YEAR AT SAN FRANCISCO
02:44HERE 50 SOVEREIGN STATES ENTERED THE NO MAN'S LAND OF SURRENDER AND CEASE FIRE
02:49AND HERE WAS DRAWN UP THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER
02:52UNDER WHICH MEN MIGHT LIVE AND BREATH FREELY AT LAST ALL OVER THE WORLD
02:57FOR 1945 WAS A YEAR OF LIBERATION
03:00OUR AIR FLEETS BROUGHT HOME OUR PRISONERS FROM ASIA AND FROM EUROPE
03:04THE BARBWIRE CAMPS WERE EMPTIED OF SUFFERING
03:28AS LIFE BEGAN AGAIN THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH WERE BROKEN UP
03:34AIRCRAFT WHICH HAD BROUGHT US VICTORY OVER THE BODIES OF OUR ENEMIES
03:38WENT TO THEIR OWN MASS GRAVES
03:41AND FACTORIES WHICH HAD MADE THEM WERE NOW PRE-FABRICATING HOMES
03:45ROW UPON ROW OF SHINING TEMPORARY BOXES
03:48TO STAND ON THE RUBBLE OF OUR DEMOLISHED CITIES
03:51AND HOUSE OUR BOMBED OUT, DEMOBBED, DISPLACED GENERATION
03:59WE LIVED ON WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE SMOKING PAST
04:02AND ON HOPES AND PLANS AND MODELS OF A DREAM
04:05WHICH MIGHT BE THE FUTURE
04:06OR MIGHT BE JUST A DREAM
04:09IN ALL THIS GUESSWORK
04:11ONLY ONE THING WAS SURE
04:13THAT THE WAR WAS DONE
04:22ON THE 8TH OF JUNE, 1946
04:24A VICTORY PARADE WAS HELD IN LONDON
04:27IN CANADA, AMERICA, AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH
04:31RETURNING SERVICEMEN WERE WELCOMED HOME
04:34PEACE WAS PRESENT
04:36TO BE CELEBRATED ALL ACROSS THE WORLD
05:08FROM QUEBEC TO HAWAII
05:10THE SHADOWS OF WAR WERE LIFTED
05:11UNTIL THE SUN SET AGAIN ON THE PACIFIC
05:14AT THE END OF JUNE, 1946
05:24THE TWO ATOMIC BOMBS
05:26LOUSED AT BIKINI KILLED NOBODY
05:27STARTED NO WAR
05:29BUT REMINDED US OF THE THREAT
05:31THAT HUNG OVER OUR LIVES
05:33OUR BRIEF JOY RIDE WAS OVER
05:35AND THE WORLD SETTLED GRIMLY
05:37TO FACE THE FUTURE
05:39THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET
05:42AND ESTABLISHED AN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
05:44AND INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIR
05:55INTO THESE PLANS WAS BROUGHT
05:57THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION
05:59ORGANIZATION
06:00WITH ITS WEATHER SHIPS
06:01ITS GLOBAL AGREEMENTS ON AIR SERVICES
06:03AND NAVIGATION
06:04AND ITS FAITH IN FRIENDLY TRAFFIC
06:07BETWEEN NATIONS
06:18OUR BOMBERS CONVERTED TO AIRLINERS
06:21REOPENED THE TRUNK ROOTS
06:22OF THE BRITISH COMMONWELF
06:24AND WE STILL HOPE
06:25THAT THE INCREASING POWER OF THE AIR
06:27MIGHT BIND THE WORLD
06:28MORE CLOSELY TOGETHER IN PEACE
06:34IN LONDON
06:35WORK BEGAN ON A NEW AIRPORT
06:37DESIGNED FOR AIRCRAFTS
06:38STILL ON THE DRAWING BOAR
06:39FOR THE SKILL
06:41WHICH HE CREATED AIR FORCES IN WAR
06:43WAS NOW TURNING
06:44TO THE MORE PEACEFUL CONQUEST
06:45OF SPACE AND TIME
06:48LONDON TO NEW YORK
06:49IN 22 HOURS
06:52LONDON TO SYDNEY
06:54IN 63
06:56LONDON TO PRESTWICK
06:57GANDER
06:58TORONTO
06:58LONDON TO PARIS
07:00ROME
07:01BEIRUT
07:07LONDON TO RECOVIC
07:09OSLO
07:09STOCKOLE
07:14LONDON TO GENEVA
07:16TRIPOLI
07:17AND POINTS SOUTH
07:19TO BAREIN
07:20COLUMBO
07:21SINGAPORE
07:21TOKYO
07:22AND POINTS EAST
07:23TO JAMAICA
07:25RIO
07:26BUENOS ARIES
07:27AND POINTS WEST
07:28TO DELI
07:29TO LISBON
07:30LONDON TO HANNESBURG
07:31VANCOUVER
07:34ANYWHERE
07:39BRITAIN'S NEW AIRCRAFT
07:40WERE TAKING TO THE SKY
07:41SOME TO FLY THE TRADE
07:43ROUTS ABOVE THE WORLD
07:44SOME LIKE THE BRABISON
07:47TO BE PROTOTYPES
07:49OF FUTURE SHAPES
07:50THE BRABISON
08:04THE PRINCESS FLYING BOAT
08:13THE VIKING
08:21THE VIKANT
08:23THE AMBASSADOR
08:36THE BRITANIA
08:51THE COMET THREE
09:01BUT WHILE THESE
09:03MADE A BRAVE
09:03SHOW UP ABOVE
09:04OUR PROGRESS BELOW
09:06WAS PAINFUL
09:07AND UNPROMISING
09:09EUROPE REMAINED
09:10A CONTINENT OF RUBBLE
09:11AND OF REFUGEES
09:13HUNGRY AND HOMELESS
09:14LOOKING FOR SHELTER
09:15AND A STATE
09:16AND A WAY TO LIVE
09:26ACROSS THESE RUINS
09:28WAS DRAWN
09:29THE IRON CURTAIN
09:29OF DISTRUST
09:30AND OUR HOPES
09:32OF PEACE
09:32FADED
09:33BEFORE A NEW
09:34THREAT OF WAR
09:34THE COLD WAR
09:36OF RESTRICTION
09:37AND BLOCKADE
09:39EARLY IN 1948
09:40THE SOVIET COMMANDER
09:42TURER
09:43BEGAN TO CLOSE
09:44THE ROADS
09:44BETWEEN BERLIN
09:45AND THE WEST
09:46BY JUNE
09:47THE RAILWAYS
09:48WERE STOPPED
09:50THE ROADS EMPTY
09:52EVEN THE BARGES
09:54STILL
09:54ONLY AIR SUPPLY
09:56REMAINED
09:57THE USE OF AIR
09:59CORRIDORS TO BERLIN
10:00HAD LONG BEEN GUARANTEED
10:01AND BY JULY
10:03THE AIRLIFT WAS BEGUN
10:04BY COMBINED
10:05AMERICAN AND BRITISH
10:06FORCES
10:08OPERATION PLANE FAIR
10:10BROUGHT FOOD
10:11FUEL
10:11MEDICINE
10:12AND RAW MATERIALS
10:13TO THE ENCIRCLED CITY
10:14THE AIRPORTS OF GATAU
10:17AND TEMPELHAUF
10:21TO THE SUBURBAN LAKES
10:23AND TO NEW RUNWAYS
10:25BUILT BY GERMAN LABOR
10:30THE MEN WHO HAD BOMBED
10:32BERLIN
10:33NOW FLEW TO SAVIES
10:46FOR 15 MONTHS
10:48THE SHUTTLE SERVICE RAN
10:49OVER 370,000 FLIGHTS
10:52BY AMERICAN AIRCRAFT
10:53OVER 170,000
10:55BY THE BRITISH
10:56IN YORKS
10:57DAKOTAS
10:58HASTINGS
10:58Sunderlands
10:59OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
11:00IN HORTONS
11:01LANCASTRIANS
11:02TUDORS
11:03OF CIVIL AIRLINES
11:06TOUCHDOWN
11:06UNLOAD
11:07TURN ROUND
11:08TAKE OFF
11:08ONE PLANE
11:09EVERY FOUR MINUTES
11:10CHECK WEATHER
11:11CHECK ROOP
11:12CHECK SCHEDULE
11:12CHECK CARGO
11:13ARRANGED PRIORITIES
11:15EVEN THE MEAT
11:16WAS BONED
11:17POTATOES DEHYDRATED
11:18TO SAVE WEIGHT
11:27WHOLE CITY
11:28SUSTAINED
11:28BY AIR SUPPLY
11:29DAY AND NIGHT
11:31ALL THROUGH THE WINTER
11:32INTO THE FOLLOWING YEAR
11:33UNTIL THE BLOCKADE
11:35WAS BROKEN
11:38OVER A HUNDRED MILLION
11:40MILES FLOWN
11:41TO AND THROW
11:41OVER 12,000
11:43TONS DELIVERED
11:44IN A DAY
11:44OVER 200,000
11:46PASSENGERS
11:47AND MORE THAN
11:482 MILLION TONS
11:50FLOWN ALTOGETHER
11:54ON THE 12TH OF MAY
11:551949
11:56THE BARRIERS
11:57WERE RAISED
11:58AIR POWER
11:59HAD WON
12:00THE FIRST BATTLE
12:01OF THE COLD WAR
12:02TRAFFIC FLOWED
12:04TRAFFIC FLOWED AGAIN
12:04AND TENSION
12:05EASED
12:19BUT THE WORLD
12:20REMAINED DIVIDED
12:21BETWEEN WEST AND EAST
12:23THE ANSWER TO OUR HOPES
12:25WAS ALWAYS NO
12:26AND OUR REPLIES
12:28WERE SOMBER
12:31WE SEEK NOTHING
12:33FROM RUSSIA
12:34BUT GOOD WILL
12:35AND FAIR PLAY
12:38IF HOWEVER
12:39THERE IS TO BE
12:39A WAR OF NERVES
12:41LET US MAKE SURE
12:42THAT OUR NERVES
12:43ARE STRONG
12:44AND ARE FORTIFIED
12:47BY THE DEEPEST
12:48CONVICTIONS
12:49OF OUR HEARTS
12:50THIS BUSINESS
12:51OF BUILDING
12:52FOR PEACE
12:52IS A VERY
12:53GRIM BUSINESS
12:54AND IT HAS TO BE
12:56WORKED FOR
12:57DAY IN
12:58AND DAY OUT
12:59RIDDEN BY FEAR
13:01OF ATOMIC WAR
13:02WE LOOKED
13:03TO OUR AIR DEFENSES
13:04ONCE AGAIN
13:06BRITAN'S GUARD
13:07WAS NEEDED
13:08FAR BEYOND EUROPE
13:09AND FOR THIS
13:10WE HAD ONLY
13:11A SMALL AIR FORCE
13:12LEFT IN SERVICE
13:13OUR STRATEGIC BOMBERS
13:15WERE STILL PISTON ENGINED
13:17OUR TROOP TRANSPORTS
13:19HAD TO BE REINFORCED
13:20BY NEW SQUADRONS
13:21AND BY CHARTERED
13:22CIVIL PLANES
13:23TO GIVE MOBILITY
13:24TO OUR REDUCED
13:25BATTALIONS
13:26IN THE MIDDLE
13:26AND FAR EAST
13:27A NEW GENERATION
13:29OF FLYERS
13:30HAD TO BE TRAINED
13:31FOR ACTION
13:39THE GREAT NAVAL BASES
13:41OF OUR MARITIM EMPIRE
13:43HAD BECOME THE KEYS
13:44OF COMMONWEALTH AIR DEFENSE
13:45AND NOW THEY HAD TO BE
13:47MANNED AND EQUIPPED
13:48ANEW
13:59FROM GIBRALTA
14:00AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
14:02OF THE ROYAL NAVY
14:02RE-ENTERED
14:03THE MEDITERRANEAN
14:05AND IN THESE YEARS
14:06THE FLEET AIR ARM
14:07BUILT UP
14:08ITS STRENGTH AGAIN
14:36WITH THESE MACHINES
15:07DEVELOPED FROM AIRCRAFT
15:08STRENGTHENED OUR GARRISON
15:09WITH REINFORCEMENTS
15:10HURRIDLY FLOWN IN
15:11FROM HOME
15:11AND WITH A FEW
15:13MODERN FIGHTERS
15:14WE COULD SPUR
15:28WHERE THE DESERT AIR FORCE
15:30HAD FLOWN IN TOTAL WAR
15:31OUR PILOTS NOW GUIDED
15:33A PEACE ALREADY
15:33FRAYING AT THE EDGES
15:35AND OUR CARRIERS
15:36SAILED THROUGH
15:37TO OTHER TROUBLED
15:38QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE
15:42THE NEW DAY IN THE EAST
15:43WAS A DAY OF STORM
15:45IN INDIA, BURMA, MALAYA
15:47THE CONFLICTS HIDDEN
15:48BY THE WAR WITH JAPAN
15:49NOW CAME INTO THE OPEN
15:52AND IN MALAYA
15:53THE SHOOTING BEGAN
15:54IN THIS OPERATION
15:56THE AIR HAS BEEN
15:57OUR MAIN LINE
15:58OF COMMUNICATION
15:59AND THE HELICOPTER
16:00HAS COME INTO ITS OWN
16:29COMMON WELFARE FORCES
16:30IN MALAYA
16:31WENT INTO ACTION
16:31IN 1948
16:33AS SOON AS A STATE
16:34OF EMERGENCY
16:35WAS DECLARED
16:37THE PLANES THEY FLEW
16:38WERE LEFTOVERS
16:39FROM THE WAR
16:39DEFECTIVE ENOUGH
16:41FOR POLICE ACTION
16:42WHERE THERE WAS
16:43NO ENEMY IN THE SKY
16:53THEY WERE BACKED
16:54BY PARATROOPES
16:55AND BOMBERS
16:55FROM BRITAIN'S
16:56STRATEGIC RESERVE
16:57PEACE HAD BEEN BROKEN
16:59AND DEATH
17:01WAS TAKING TO THE AIR
17:02AGAIN
17:13THE AIR
17:13AND DEATH
17:18AND DEATH
17:18AND DEATH
17:47The Cold War
17:48Between East and West
17:49Was Running Hot
17:50Though The Traffic
17:51In Bombs Was Limited
17:52The Battle Small
17:54Around Each Separate
17:56Point Of Violence
17:56The Unquired Peace
17:57Still Held
17:58And We Hope
17:59To Put Out The Fires
18:00Before They Spread
18:02But Behind Each Incident
18:04Lay A Deeper Rift
18:05Between Two Ways Of Life
18:14China Like Russia
18:15Raised New Banners
18:17Against The Western Powers
18:18And Ahead Of The Chinese
18:20March To The North Koreans
18:23In June 1950
18:25The United Nations
18:26Were Faced With Another War
18:27Within Five Years Of Armistice
18:29The Guns Were Out Again
18:31America Indicted The Aggressors
18:33Although Many Countries
18:35Promptly Disbanded
18:37Their Wartime Armies
18:38Other Countries Continued
18:40To Maintain Forces
18:41So Large
18:42That They Posed
18:43A Constant Threat
18:44Of Aggression
18:45And This Year
18:46The Invasion Of Korea
18:48Has Shown
18:50That There Are Some
18:51Who Resort
18:51To Outright War
18:52Contrary To The Principles
18:54Of The Charter
18:55If It Suits Their Ends
19:00By Winter
19:01The Americans
19:02And South Koreans
19:03Were Driven Back
19:04From The 38th Parallel
19:05To A Last Foothold
19:06Around Busan
19:08Korea Became Another Country
19:10Of Refugees
19:11And Suffering
19:13And Loss
19:23This Was Our Brave New World
19:26By 1951
19:27As The 20th Century
19:29Reached Its Halfway Mark
19:30New Perspectives Of Life
19:33And Death
19:33Opened Before Us
19:39The United Nations
19:41Rallied To Korea
19:42The Far East Air Force
19:44And The Navy's Carriers
19:45Rode Out The First
19:47Harsh Winter
19:48To Put Up
19:49A Striking Force
19:49That Saved The Allied Armies
19:51From Utter Defeat
19:53At Sea
19:54We Were Unchallenged
19:55And When The Time
19:57Came For MacArthur's
19:58Troops To Counter Attack
19:59Our Strength In The Air
20:01Also Was Decisive
20:15Attention Blue Flight
20:16Man Your Air Cross
20:17Attention Blue Flight
20:18Man Your Air Cross
20:37When United Nations forces landed back on the 38th parallel at Incheon, air cover came
20:43from carrier planes of the fleet air arm, fireflies, sea fires, sea furies, the last
20:49of the piston jobs, while over land jet warfare had begun.
21:03American superforts were escorted by Australian meteor squadrons and opened a two-year round-the-clock
21:09offensive against the North Korean ground forces.
21:13This was conventional tactical bombing.
21:16We were still trying to limit the range of war, and we were still working short of modern
21:21aircraft.
21:32Only America's sabre fighters were rarely new.
21:36With these, we made our bid for air supremacy.
21:43Day after day, the fighter sweeps went out against ground targets hidden in the hills, and enemy
21:49air patrols flown from Anchorian bases.
21:52And the world's first jet-to-jet battles were fought along the galley, 50,000 feet above
21:59North Korea.
22:23In these battles, kills were 20 to 1 in favour of the Allied jets.
22:28Our air supremacy over the battlefield became complete.
22:32Throughout the Korean War, air power held back an enemy who was stronger on the ground.
22:38We stopped an overwhelming flood of men with a thin line of troops, a few thousand machines,
22:44a few thousand machines, and mastery of the sky.
23:07In Korea, as in Berlin, the Western powers held firm, and after a year, Russia reopened
23:16talks.
23:16The Soviet people believed that as a first step, discussions should be started between the
23:25belligerents for a ceasefire and an armistice, providing for the mutual withdrawal of forces
23:34from the 38th parallel.
23:38There were signs of truce in the air, although for another year, United Nations aircraft patrolled
23:44Korea, while propaganda, negotiations, and exchange of prisoners alternated with fierce fighting
23:50on the ground.
23:54Only at the end of July 1953 was a ceasefire signed in the peace hut at Panmunjong.
24:11While an international force countered one threat in Asia, tension had grown throughout
24:17the Western world.
24:19The North Atlantic Treaty had been signed in 1949, and under it, the community of the West
24:25manned a common frontier, from the north of Norway to the far end of the Mediterranean.
24:34In Paris, the NATO powers set up a military command under General Eisenhower.
24:39The Supreme Allied Commander returned to lead new forces in Europe.
24:44The great difference is, we are organizing them now for a different purpose.
24:49Then it was to win a war already started.
24:54It is now to preserve a peace and to prevent anyone from believing that they can destroy the free world.
25:16To preserve the peace, we have prepared as for another war.
25:20And a hundred bases have been built for a new Allied air force.
25:27Men and machines from the United States, Britain and Canada have moved in to strengthen the NATO air defenses.
25:34For in this new division of the world, air power plays a greater and more terrible part than ever in
25:40the past.
25:41The National Anthem
25:43The National Anthem
26:28For the Royal Air Force, the work of NATO exceeds all other commitments in the world.
26:34But there is more than this.
26:36The Canberra bombers at NATO's call have been designed and built in Britain.
26:42So have the vampire fighters and the meteors.
26:53The sabers and shooting stars come from North America, and many of their crews are French and Belgian, Danish, Italian,
27:00Norwegian, Icelandic, Greek and Turkish, Portuguese and Dutch.
27:10They make up a tactical defensive air force to fly against any attacker, in the air or on the ground.
27:17Year in, year out, they rehearse the possible battles of the future.
27:41Today, our front line is drawn across Europe, from the Arctic to the Bosphorus.
27:46Our fighters patrol where east meets west, above the minarets of Turkey.
27:52And under their wings, we live in our unquiet peace.
27:57Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:27Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:33Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:43Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:43Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:43Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:45Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:45Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:46Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:47Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:48Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:49Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
28:51Year in, year out, we live in our unquiet peace.
29:05THE END