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01:45In 1935, the Hitler youth were growing up in Germany.
01:49A new air force was being built for this new generation.
01:53The future pilots of the Luftwaffe were taught a new concept of war.
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06:43by 1939 in darkened rooms a 24-hour watch began which was to end only with the defeat of germany
06:49on this lay the whole plan of our air defense and our fighter control system was built upon it
06:55our new horizon was a pale line across a cathode ray tube it's all very hush-hush but we've got
07:03five rdf stations covering the thames estuary boardsy bromley canuden dunkirk and dover any
07:11airplanes coming towards our coast will be picked up by one or more of these stations who can tell
07:16whether they're friend or foe they report their positions back to london in spite of all this
07:22some bombers will get through so our third requirement is an adequate ground defense guns
07:26searchlights balloons the modern threat is of course the bomber and the most deadly method
07:33is dive bombing that is pointing the airplane at the objective and diving full out at it
07:40bombs are released at the crucial moment just before he was flattened out of his climb
07:47means used to prevent this dive bombing are of course your balloons
07:58good morning good morning i'm from the balloon barrage of the royal air force you'd like to put a balloon
08:03in your back garden a balloon well here's a man who wants to put a balloon in the back garden
08:08suppose
08:09we'll get a wee bit compensation for this
08:33such were the weapons in which we put our hopes and these the men pilots navigators ground crew pilots
08:40air gunners pilots wireless operators pilots pilots for the royal air force for the fleet air arm
08:48right robinson i want you to go right through the starting up drill plug in rt
08:54put rt to receive switch on undercarriage lights
09:03put petrol on reserve and while these threw their erratic way to skill four men met in munich
09:11and one came home to london
09:15this morning i had another talk with the german chancellor herr hitler
09:25and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine chamberlain did not speak for
09:35the
09:35luft buffer for us it was not the time for peace on the first day of september 1939 we flew
09:42against poland
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09:56Let's go.
10:38We silenced the Poes in four weeks.
10:41Against our will, they had only courage.
10:44Against our tanks, cavalry, against our aircraft, rifles.
10:48Their allies, France and Britain, were powerless at the other end of Europe.
11:14September the 3rd, 1939.
11:18This is London.
11:20The following official communique has been issued from 10 Downing Street.
11:25On September the 1st, His Majesty's Ambassador in Berlin was instructed to inform the German government
11:32that unless they were prepared to give His Majesty's government in the United Kingdom
11:37satisfactory assurances that the German government had suspended all aggressive action against Poland
11:43and were prepared promptly to withdraw their forces from Polish territory,
11:49His Majesty's government in the United Kingdom would, without hesitation,
11:54fulfill their obligations to Poland.
11:58That is the end of the announcement.
12:00Please stand by for a few moments.
12:04On your toes, chaps.
12:05The O.C. is coming in.
12:09What's it done?
12:12Well, it's started.
12:15Attention, everybody.
12:18It has just been announced by the Prime Minister
12:21that from 1100 hours today, that's just three minutes ago,
12:25we are at war with Germany.
12:28From now on, anything may happen.
12:30We were dead keen that morning. So dead keen we misplotted a fighter at one of our RDF stations
12:36and reported it as an unidentified aircraft approaching over the channel.
12:40Good practice I suppose for all concerned.
12:54Stand by x-ray one west sugar one one eight seven sugar one one eight seven three eight one zero
13:15but the bombing war had not yet started our few bomber squadrons were being built up to attack
13:20the enemy's forces not his towns in spite of warsaw we still hope to avoid total war
13:28our new wellingtons were used to drop leaflets over germany and to support our troops in france
13:37we sent an advanced air striking force at once to bases in france
13:44not a very powerful one some blenheims battles wellingtons hurricanes and lysanders
13:51we called up the auxiliaries and sent ground crews across the channel with the bf
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17:50Strong forces of the German army have therefore invaded these countries this morning.
17:55We came not only by sea but by air also.
17:59First we took the airfields, then our Junkers transports brought in men and supplies until
18:04all Norway was ours, until all Norway was ours, and that was only the start of it.
18:25Thank you, sir.
18:32Holland aufzubrechen, die Brücken des Feindes, die Brücken bei Murdaik und vor Rotterdam
18:39für den deutschen Vormarsch offen zu halten.
18:42An die Maschinen!
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19:48May the 10th, 1940.
19:51In the early hours as the German army marched,
19:54the first bombs fell on Belgium and Holland.
19:57No warning, no declaration of war.
20:01Only fire falling from the sky.
20:04And with the dawn, the paratroopers.
20:33And with the dawn, the paratroopers.
20:35And with the dawn, the paratroopers.
21:15As the Germans struck at Holland and Belgium,
21:18the British forces in France moved north to meet them.
21:22Here, standing on the Franco-Belgian frontier,
21:25we're watching long columns of British troops
21:27and transports and supplies and guns
21:29coming through from France into Belgium.
21:32As I'm speaking to you and looking the other way,
21:35I can see the columns coming up.
21:37Here's another.
21:48All the weekends, on the roads leading west,
21:51there have been streams of refugees from Luxembourg
21:53and from the towns on the friendship of Belgian frontier,
21:56which are being evacuated.
22:05Old men and women and children,
22:07some of them with rolled blankets tied over their shoulders,
22:10their few pathetic belongings scrapped on their back
22:13or carried in cheap suitcases in their hands.
22:16In five minutes today, I passed a couple of farm carts
22:19drawn by tired-looking horses.
22:20Well, they must have started out about last Friday morning.
22:23These people are using anything on wheels
22:25they can get hold of to move their families
22:27and to salvage a few of their more treasured belongings.
22:31Nowhere was safe.
22:33Every day, the German planes diving down out of the sky.
23:04At first, they only bombed military targets.
23:07Then, on the 14th of May,
23:09they pranged the old city of Rotterdam
23:11and we knew we were in for the full treatment.
23:14Holland was overwhelmed the next day
23:16Belgium surrendered 13 days later.
23:18The way into France lay open.
23:21The Maginot Line and all it stood for
23:23could now be outflanked, bombarded, broken.
23:43As the German armies pushed into France,
23:45bomber commands struck repeatedly
23:47at their communications and supplies.
23:49But 16 squadrons were all we had to fly
23:52and these alone couldn't stop the flood.
23:55We broke the French armies on the Meuse.
23:57We broke through at Sedan.
24:01We were driving now towards the Channel Coast,
24:03cutting off the British army in the north.
24:06Nothing could stop us.
24:09Nothing on earth could stop them
24:11and the air was heavy with their fighters.
24:14Our few squadrons of Whitley's and Wellingtons,
24:17of battles, Blenheims and Hurricanes,
24:19flew and fought and died
24:21over their advancing columns.
24:23I am not Bronzefield!
24:24Oh!
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24:52but it's a great task.
24:52We won't be saving already!
25:03May the 14th, the French Premier telephoned London.
25:07If we are to win this battle, it is necessary to send ten more squadrons at once.
25:14But we could spare no more from our home defences.
25:17The battle could not be won in France.
25:23May the 24th, the British are isolated, the advance posts captured.
25:29May the 26th, the end of Calais.
25:33The German 19th Corps close in, supported by the full strength of the Luftwaffe.
25:39The Blitzkrieg is nearly over, and time runs down to days and hours.
25:44May the 28th, arrive Dunkirk, closely followed by Jerry, left our vehicles and walked to the beaches.
25:53340,000 men escaped from Dunkirk, under the cover of our home-based aircraft.
25:59Aircraft of all commands and types, fighting against odds of 50 and more to one.
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27:06The end of May, the end of an army.
27:09The BEF come home.
27:11There was every kind of ship that I saw coming in this morning.
27:14And every one of them was crammed full of tired, battle-stained and blood-stained British soldiers.
27:20Transport officers counted the men as they came ashore.
27:23No question of units.
27:24No question of regiments.
27:26No question even of nationality.
27:28For there were French and Belgian soldiers who had fought side by side with the British in the Battle of
27:32Flanders.
27:34All of them were tired.
27:35Some were completely exhausted.
27:37But the most amazing thing was that practically every man was reasonably cheerful and most of them managed a smile.
27:44Even when a man was obviously on the verge of collapse from sheer fatigue, you could still tell by his
27:49eyes that his spirit was irrepressible.
27:51And that is a thing that all the bombs in Germany will never crush.
27:56All the bombs in Germany.
27:58And against them, the net of our last defense hangs in the air.
28:02Invisible, intangible as wireless waves or courage.
28:12What has happened in France makes no difference to British faith and purpose.
28:20We have become the sole champions now in arms to defend the world cause.
28:30We shall do our best to be worthy of that high honor.
28:38We shall defend our island.
28:41And with the British Empire around us, we shall fight on, unconquerable, until the curse of Hitler is lifted from
28:53the brows of men.
28:55Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty.
28:59So bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its commonwealths last for a thousand years, men will still say
29:11this was their finest hour.
29:25The British Empire.
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