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01:19Here on the coast of Norway, we are so close to freedom and so far from it.
01:25It's two years since the Germans came here in 1940, and since then they have built defenses
01:31all along our coast.
01:33They are very strong and very sure of themselves.
01:37For the Allies, the west coast of Europe is the edge of a dark world we cannot enter.
02:12It follows the Green. Combined operations against Hitler's Europe have begun.
02:18Last year, the Lofotans and Spitsbergen. This year, Brunewald. At Brunewald, they have
02:24a radar station which we must take back in pieces to England. The boffins want to study
02:28it, and we must learn how to destroy the many others which stand along the coast against
02:32our invasion.
02:36Other jobs are easier. Just bring out the local resistance boys and blow up anything
02:41Jerry might find useful in Scalper.
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03:30Luftwaffe are never far away, and beyond our fighter range, even their second
03:35line planes are dangerous. Our men must be gone before the strafing starts.
03:42And our men too. Some have gone with the commandos, some must face the North Sea on their own.
03:50The Germans will make short work of any who stayed too long.
03:55U-boat, U-boat. This is a British submarine. Who are you?
04:01In the English? We are Norwegians. Can you take us to England?
04:06Yes. Hurry up and come alongside.
04:08The Government is preparing you!
04:19The American Army is very can't help.
04:22Gives! Gives!
04:24That's the A- Clan
04:53We know by now that without air supremacy,
04:56we cannot put forces into the narrow seas without great danger.
05:00But our allies want us to open a second front.
05:03So now another heavier raid goes out to try our strength against the coast of France.
05:09The date is August the 19th, 1942.
05:12The objective, Dieppe.
05:14We know. We have ears in England.
05:18The Luftwaffe is ready.
05:20The Wehrmacht is moving in.
05:22They will not get beyond the beaches.
05:26But while our fighters hold back the German air force,
05:29the German army at Dieppe settles behind its concrete emplacements and waits.
05:36The Luftwaffe is ready.
05:39The Luftwaffe is ready.
07:38Canadian infantry and armour, British and French commandos.
07:43They have not got beyond the beaches and 4,000 will not return, nor over a hundred British planes.
07:53And this is only a raid, only a taste of the battle still to be fought over Hitler's Europe.
12:16It's my upon a roof.
12:16The world has mastered the new trades of war.
12:23Over in Canada, we contribute to a set up called the Empire Air Training Scheme.
12:27They've got the same scheme now in the States and in Africa and all the commonwealth countries
12:31are churning out airmen too.
12:33We start from scratch.
12:35We teach them how to find the way around the sky and how to handle all the gear they're
12:39loaded up with.
12:40We teach them how to walk and how to jump.
12:49Finally, we teach them how to drive an aeroplane.
12:52We put them into link trainers and show them how to fly blind, then we put them into the
12:57air.
12:57MUSIC CONTINUES
13:40Some men and some women will fly anything, anywhere.
13:44They call themselves ferry pilots.
13:48Officially, they're the air transport auxiliary.
13:51They take the new planes to the new squadrons.
14:06With this added strength in the air, a new offensive can be launched.
14:11Not yet against Europe, but against North Africa.
14:18Operation Torch will be mounted by the combined forces of Britain and America.
14:24Landings will be made at Casablanca, Oran and Algiers.
14:28French forces in North Africa may join them.
14:31Then they will drive eastwards through Tunisia and break the Africa Corps between their front and the 8th Army advancing
14:38from El Alamein.
14:39Until airfields can be established in Algeria, air cover will come from the Fleet Air Arm and from the Royal
14:46Air Force Base at Gibraltar.
14:56November 1942.
14:58The Gibraltar airstrip has been lengthened, built out like a pier into the sea.
15:03Dispersal areas have been made for 600 aircraft.
15:06Bombers fly in from Britain and fighters are shipped in crates.
15:09In nine days, 122 Hurricanes and Spitfires are unpacked and assembled.
15:24American aircraft stand beside the British.
15:26The beginnings of the U.S. 12th Air Force.
15:55November the 7th.
15:57Troop ships enter the Straits and turn towards the African coast.
16:02Operation Torch has begun.
16:05The U.S. 12th Air Force Base at Gibraltar.
16:14The desarroll cameramen and玩es are shipped by David Almey.
16:16I am about to see Los G Sabbaths at Gibraltar.
16:42our furthest east is algiers we go in with the british waving the stars and stripes to impress
16:48the french garrison and the french commander hands over his fortress to us but it's airstrips we want
16:53and we get them a servicing commando party of the raf has marched from the beaches to open up the
16:59algiers airfield for our fighters and by breakfast time the first squadron of hurries from gibraltar
17:05has touched down this time we're here to stay this is not enemy territory these are citizens of france
17:13torn between us and our puppet government in vichy and while they cheer commanders and politicians
17:19transfer allegiance algiers joins the allies now we have another country to protect another front
17:26to form we have only two days before the german strike on november the ninth the battle of north
17:33africa is joined
18:31december we have fought off the bombers and reached tuna
18:33is here but now the weather's breaking soon our airfields will be deep in mud our aircraft
18:39grounded the germans have stopped us dead we shan't get any further down the road this year
18:53as the allies stop we counter-attack romers africa core in the south on arnhem's forces in the north
19:00pushback the allied lines now we have reinforcements and can match them gun for gun man for man
19:07their aircraft are grounded but ours still fly from our concrete runways the stukas are at work again
19:19pod
19:20on air
19:21on
19:25and
19:48This is the Luftwaffe's last throw and it can't stop us.
19:51The 8th Army turns the marath line and drives on towards Tunis.
20:00The enemy has opened the New Year's fighting, but we will finish it.
20:06As the mud dries to dust on Algerian runways, our air-striking forces go into action.
20:11The Axis troops in Tunisia are now ringed round by our squadrons, British, Commonwealth,
20:18American, French, Greek.
20:20The Northwest African Air Force and the Desert Air Force.
20:24All united under a new Air Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, Air Chief Marshal Tedder.
20:30On the 5th of March 1943, Tedder writes...
20:34One senses a growing feeling of cohesion and concentration.
20:38I think the enemy also senses it.
20:41Our brief is straightforward.
20:43Finish off the Axis forces in Africa.
20:46Bomb their airfields, knock down their planes, sink their ships and strap their armies in the field.
20:51This is what Rommel has to say about us.
20:54British air supremacy has thrown to the winds all our operations and tactical rules.
21:00The strength of the Anglo-American Air Force has been the deciding factor.
21:06This is what Rommel has done.
21:13The gust of the Roommel has finally left all our operations and tactical rules.
21:21So will you, Dennis?
21:21The blanc hazard is now as for the soldier's day.
21:22The northernize of the領位 and the navy and the historic anchor.
21:23The north has been there.
21:24The north has been the east and south.
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22:25March 5, 1943, 242 Group have flown a thousand sorties against the Germans in the north.
22:35March 21, 412 Sorties flown by the Desert Air Force against the Africa Corps in the south.
22:50April 20, Northwest African Air Force fly over a thousand sorties against enemy airfields.
23:25The enemy has started to escape.
23:26The enemy will withdraw his remaining planes to Europe.
23:29All the sky is ours.
23:31And now our target is the shrinking axis foothold around Tunis.
23:36Daylight bombing isn't all beer and skittles.
23:39We have our casualties.
23:40Daylight blackmani!
23:44Daylight bombile!
23:45Oh, my God.
24:15Oh, my God.
24:45Oh, my God.
25:15The army is still fighting its way from Egypt across Africa meets the U.S. Second Corps driving in from
25:20the west.
25:23Now there is only one front left in the desert as India and America join hands.
25:29The Africa Corps, kaput.
25:33Rommel has gone.
25:34The Allied commanders plan for the last offensive.
25:37This is the battle state at the end of April.
25:40The German and Italian armies are sealed in here around Tunis.
25:44The 8th Army and the French are pushing up from the south.
25:47The British 1st Army is attacking from the west.
25:50The American 2nd Corps has been switched to the north.
25:55The line of battle is complete.
26:09The 7th of May, 1943.
26:13The desert rats reach Tunis.
26:36The 1st Army is dangerous.
26:36The 1st Army is the first.
26:37The 4th Army is the first.
26:39The 1st Army is the first.
27:23Air Chief Marshal Tedder, to all ranks of the Allied Air Forces.
27:28You've shown the world the unity and strength of air power.
27:32We face our next job with the knowledge that we've thrashed the enemy
27:36and the determination to thrash him again.
28:07The goose step like the Stuka has gone out of date.
28:10Of 600,000 men poured into Tunisia to keep their place in the sun,
28:16all are lost.
28:18There is no Dunkirk for the Germans and Italians.
28:22Only the cemetery, the hospital, the cage.
28:26It doesn't always pay to start a war.
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29:13In Malta, we shall build a monument to the airmen who died in the Mediterranean
29:18war and who have no grave.
29:21For three years, we lived under the shadow of the fascists and the Nazis.
29:26Now we are free again.
29:28Those who still live in Hitler's Europe are not so fortunate.
29:32But their day will come.
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