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00:10The End
00:39The End
01:18The Fatherland is secure in its own strength.
01:21German power dominates all Europe, except Britain, the Balkans and Russia.
01:28The battles of the West are over, and they're dead, honored.
01:33The Herrenfolk have come into their own.
01:45Everything the Führer has promised is coming true.
01:49Life is bright and sweet in Germany in the spring of 1941.
02:03The End
02:06And the figure, and the figure, and the figure, and the figure, and the figure, and the figure, and the
02:14figure, and the figure, and the figure, and the figure.
02:19Britain in the same spring has only the thin thread of survival in her hands.
02:25No force to strike at Germany except a small force of bombers which dare not fly by day.
02:32These are mainly twin-engined Wellingtons, the brave old wimpies that go out at night without escort or radio beams
02:40to help them to their target.
02:48Here's your plug in, Lee.
02:50Operations tonight, fellas.
02:52How do you know?
02:53I'll get around. I'll get all the gent.
03:01Morning, sir.
03:02Morning, Carble.
03:03Here's today's orders.
03:18We can tell what the weather is today in England.
03:21We can only guess what it will be tonight over Germany.
03:24Good morning.
03:26The Met officer confirms the good weather forecast for tonight, sir.
03:29Right.
03:29Then we'll go ahead with our maximum effort.
03:32Bomber command to all groups.
03:35Maximum effort tonight, town 434, Germany.
03:40Target, naval docks and barracks.
03:43Right, sir.
03:51Get me to the intelligence room, please.
03:53May be, sir.
03:54I'll ask the wing commander to come in.
03:55Yes, sir.
03:56Hello, intelligence room.
03:58The group captain wants you.
04:00Yes, sir.
04:01Freihausen, sir.
04:02It's on the Rhine, sir.
04:04What I want is target information.
04:06The latest target maps.
04:08Any recent photographs showing the new oil tanks and storage.
04:13Briefing is at 14.30 hours.
04:18Maximum effort sounds good, but there are only about 60 of us in most of these shows over Germany.
04:23Cloud and ice, darkness and enemy defenses are all loaded against us.
04:28We get our briefing, target, route, height, bomb load, weather.
04:33Then we go.
04:34They take off as night falls.
04:38But even if they find the target, who knows if they'll hit it.
04:45Full-rober trail, full-rober trail.
04:47Port theasstogushing.
04:48Power Al-or-or-or 1938.
04:51On-R-or-or 1938.amer
04:53- apparel calling. Fairboat
04:55call. Flyer
04:56Park. May we
04:56tax if they are up? Take off.
04:58Move up.
04:59Maybe we taxi
05:00enfim. Beam
05:10roll.
05:11Enemy 1.?
05:11The feeling's
05:12Off calling, air rotoable 19.4.
05:15Over.
05:18Hello, air pass. Hello, air pass.
05:20BBAC calling. BBAC calling.
05:22Clear your takeoff. Clear your takeoff. Over.
05:28I am clear. Off calling.
05:31BBL to road 19.4.6.
05:51Lois in the night lies a Germany which we can hardly touch.
05:58Lois, Goebbels and his henchmen are preparing a new propaganda drive
06:02as the enemy forces are secretly moved from west to east.
06:08Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling.
06:13Here are the rights and ambush station Bremen
06:17and station DXB on the 31 meter band.
06:21You are about to hear our news in English.
06:25The diplomatic correspondent of the Italian newspaper Tribuna
06:28writes that England and France are spreading false and misleading rumours
06:32about alleged intentions of Germany in the Balkans.
06:36These allegations against Germany are entirely unfounded
06:40because every German interest favours the maintenance of peace in the Balkans.
06:46This is one way of declaring war.
06:49On April the 6th, 1941, the Blitzkrieg moves into Yugoslavia
06:53and Luftflotte 4 goes into action.
06:56The locusts are swarming again.
07:04SIREN
07:04SIREN
07:04SIREN
07:08Let's go.
07:46Let's go.
08:27Let's go.
08:56Let's go.
08:58Let's go.
09:30In Germany, we need the Balkan oil for our war machine.
09:34In Germany, we all have our tasks, like the soldiers at the front.
09:39Here, in the heart of the Ruhr, safe from our enemies, we can forge all the armament we
09:44need for our greatest conquest.
10:46In the center of Poland towards the center of Poland towards Molenk, Luftflotte 4 in the
10:50south towards Kiev, the Crimea, the Caucasus.
10:53June 22, 1941, this is the long-prepared crusade of Nazism, launched on a front of nearly 2,000 miles.
11:05Born of hatred, it will stop at nothing.
12:23THE END
13:12July the 6th, in two weeks, the German forces have swept the Russians out of Poland
13:17and reached the Dnieper.
13:19A hundred divisions beat back the Russian tanks.
13:40July the 20th, four weeks.
13:44The German army is halfway along its road, and the Luftwaffe is already raiding Moscow.
13:50But the Red Air Force still flies, reinforced by a wing of British hurricanes,
13:55and strikes back at the Germans in the field.
14:27The Star Wars
14:31the airmen die the Red Army retreats behind a shield of fire Stalin has broadcast the doctrine
14:39of scorched earth nothing will be left for the invader the eight weeks pass and the Germans in
14:47their charred wilderness are still short of Moscow
15:03September the first snow falls the adventure of high summer freezes on the Russian steps
15:10but is still pushed painfully forward by its own weight
15:19October Kiev and Kharkov have fallen now German airborne forces attack the Crimea
15:26the southern stepping stone to the Caucasus nearly half the German air force is committed to a long
15:33campaign on the eastern front the war of cheap victories is over the war of attrition has begun
16:05throughout the winter the Russians guard the Caucasus the railway and the road from
16:11Persia in the British held Middle East run through these mountains by this route and by arctic
16:19convoys to the white sea supplies begin to come in from the western allies new equipment for the red
16:25army new planes for the red air force Britain has been sending all the help that can be spared and
16:31carried to the Russian front under an agreement signed within three weeks of the German attack
16:37his majesty's government in the United Kingdom and the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist
16:43Republics have concluded the present agreement and declare as follows the two governments mutually
16:50undertake to render each other assistance and support of all kinds in the present war against Hitler right
17:07Germany
17:07spring 42 Britain is ready to open a new offensive in the air Churchill has said we must develop the
17:15power to carry an
17:16ever-increasing volume of explosives to Germany so as to pulverize the entire industry on which the war effort of
17:22the enemy depends
17:23first we must build the bombers this morning on rhythmic record
17:51this is a kind of long-range battle between our factories and Hitler's we're making something he hasn't got a
17:58stock of four engine heavy bombers
17:59sterling's halifaxes and Lancaster's we're on what the ministry men call maximum output double shifts efficiency experts workers playtime balanced
18:09diet a lot
18:10this is a kind of long-range battle against Hitler's we're making something he hasn't got a stock of four
18:17engine heavy bombers
18:17round the back of the archers down it's on the side land
18:26I'm a god who's never going to roam again once I'm in the old hometown
18:32bye and bye i'll see my little home again and i'm going to settle down
18:39with the band of the londies
18:43and lift up the is
18:47and lift up the need
18:54and lift up the clouds up on the edge
19:09What about a drop of music, Charlie?
19:31Away from the assembly lines of metal giants, carpenters and cabinet makers are working on something new, the plywood mosquito,
19:40with the speed of a fighter and the range and load of a bomber.
19:45These will also be the eyes of our new force.
19:58For next, we must find the targets. If we cannot attack the enemy by day, at least we can photograph
20:06him.
20:06A camera flown over Germany in a mosquito can show us what to bomb later in the dark.
20:14But the camera cannot guide the night bomber to its target.
20:16For this, we need the newest of radar systems, known as G.
20:23I want to impress upon you that this equipment is most secret and completely new.
20:29It will provide you with a really accurate means of navigating to your target in the dark or through cloud.
20:37It's based upon three transmitter stations in this country, A, B and C.
20:45In your aircraft, you will be able to pick up radio pulses from A and B and see them on
20:54your cathode radio as two blips.
20:57The difference in distance between these will give you a line of position.
21:04These lines of position extend right across the North Sea and as far as the Ruhr.
21:09They will give you an accurate navigational aid right into the heart of enemy territory.
21:17For the spring offensive of 1942, Bomber Command has 600 operational aircraft.
21:23Nearly 100 of them are the new four-engined heavies.
21:26The great industrial centers of Western Germany will be our main objectives.
21:31Hamburg, Cologne and the cities of the Ruhr.
21:35Air Marshal Harris has taken over the command with orders to start intensive operations.
21:40The plan is to saturate the enemy's defenses with the heaviest possible bomb load.
21:45Bombs have grown from 500 to 8,000 pounds.
21:49The nights to come will be long and hard for the citizens of the Reich and for the crews of
21:56Bomber Command.
21:57Headquarters Bomber Command, May the 30th, 1942.
22:01Somehow, another 400 aircraft have been found and manned for the first 1,000 bomber raid in history.
22:08The target is Cologne.
22:10How many aircraft have we got on the board for tonight?
22:131,046. About 50 from Army Cooperation Command and the whole of two groups out.
22:19Good. Well, the weather's a bit tricky for tonight.
22:22But I'm hoping that Gee's going to see us through.
22:25What do you think about it say with us?
22:27Well, sir, we've made a terrific effort and we've got nearly 50% of the main force equipped, including all
22:34the heavy aircraft.
22:35I see.
22:37The C&C has picked two aiming points in Cologne.
22:40They're marked on this target map.
22:42And the whole show's got to be over in 90 minutes.
22:45Command to all groups.
22:48Groups to all stations.
22:50Carry out operation according to the 1,000 plan.
23:00Number four group, eight Whitley's, nine Willington's, 138 Halifax's.
23:04Number five group, 33 Hamlin's, 45 Manchester's, 79 Lancaster's.
23:08Norfolk, 26 Stirling's.
23:09Bill 12, 14 Wellington's.
23:11Water Beach, eight Stirling's.
23:12One, two, three animal bodies.
23:13One, three, four, four, four six navigators.
23:15Now every navigator was a fine sight, when a very fine sight was he.
23:21Fifteen miles of tracks, said the navigator.
23:24I don't give to hoots, said the pilot.
23:26Very very, very, like a way.
23:28There's no, so fair and can't compare.
23:32Right, gentlemen.
23:33Maximum bomb load tonight.
23:34comprised mainly of incendiaries.
23:37Remember that this will leave you an extremely small reserve of petrol.
23:40Your route will be from base to Udorp, to the target,
23:46and the target to Oiskirchen, to Nordland, and back to base.
23:51You'll maintain WT and RT's silence from take-off to target.
23:55If you don't, you'll get picked up by the gerry-monitoring stations.
23:58It will be moonlight, so you'll have to watch out for night fighters all the way.
24:02Tonight, you'll be a thousand strong.
24:35GONG
24:35GONG
24:35GONG
24:35GONG
24:35GONG
24:36GONG
25:03Oh, my God.
25:06Oh, my God.
25:41Oh, my God.
25:43Oh, my God.
26:20Oh, my God.
26:23Oh, my God.
26:24Oh, my God.
26:53Oh, my God.
26:54Oh, my God.
27:02Oh, my God.
27:04Oh, my God.
27:05Oh, my God.
27:14Oh, my God.
27:21Oh, my God.
27:26Oh, my God.
27:29Oh, my God.
27:44Oh, my God.
27:53Oh, my God.
27:59Oh, my God.
28:05Oh, my God.
28:35Oh, my God.
28:59Oh, my God.
29:30Oh, my God.
29:59Oh, my God.
30:29Oh, my God.