00:10THE END
00:35THE END
01:09Summer in Britain
01:10The Battle of France is over
01:14In our land
01:15The unreal peace of a battlefield
01:17On the eve of battle
01:18The whole fury
01:21And might of the enemy
01:22Must very soon be turned on us
01:27Hitler knows
01:28That he will have to break us
01:30In this island
01:31Or lose the war
01:33If we can stand up to him
01:35All Europe may be freed
01:37And the life of the world
01:39May move forward
01:40Into broad, sunlit
01:43Upland
01:45Hurricanes and spitfires are planted in the hedgerows
01:48Dispersed
01:49And hidden from German reconnaissance
01:52The enemy can choose his hour to attack
01:55Radar will tell us the moment to intercept
01:58We are only 600 strong
02:02Aircraft
02:03Engines
02:03Pilots
02:04All held back
02:06Until the enemy presents himself
02:09The enemy is only an hour's flight away
02:15We of the Luftwaffe
02:16Are ready with our plan for Adlerstag
02:19It's a simple plan
02:21Eliminate the Royal Air Force
02:23Its destruction will take two
02:25Maybe four weeks
02:27Fighter command comes first
02:29Four
02:30Maybe eight days
02:32Eagle day is planned for the 12th of August
02:34For the British
02:36The day to start
02:37Rouse shooting
02:38For us
02:39The day to start
02:40The battle for Britain
02:41The prelude to Operation Sea Lion
02:44Our code name for invasion
02:46Luftflotte drei
02:47Attack the south
02:53Luftflotte zwei
02:54Attack the south east
03:01Luftflotte fünf
03:02Attack the north east
03:20Serial number
03:22Serial 97
03:23Beacon Hill
03:26Serial 97
03:30Squadron 32
03:32Intercept
03:34Raid 45
03:36Correct
03:38Tangliar
03:39Serial 98
03:42Squadron 43
03:45Intercept
03:47Raid
03:474-6
03:48Correct
04:05Northfield
04:06Kenley
04:07Pinging Hill
04:08Hornchurch
04:09Northweald
04:10Debden
04:11Will you warn your controller
04:14That this looks like
04:15Yet another attack
04:16On airfields
04:17We'll be right back
04:29We'll be right back
04:31We'll be right back
04:32We'll be right back
04:34We'll be right back
04:35We'll be right back
04:35We'll be right back
04:36We'll be right back
04:37We'll be right back
04:38We'll be right back
04:41We'll be right back
04:45Let's go.
05:15Let's go.
05:53Yes, there is a major raid developing to the southeast, height 15,000, coming in on a bearing of 100,
06:02target presumed London.
06:36Let's go.
06:39Let's go.
06:39Let's go.
06:44Let's go.
07:11Let's go.
07:20Let's go.
07:48Let's go.
07:51Let's go.
07:53Let's go.
07:54Let's go.
07:55Let's go.
07:56Let's go.
07:57Let's go.
07:57Let's go.
07:58Let's go.
08:09Let's go.
08:16Let's go.
08:19Let's go.
08:20Let's go.
08:27Let's go.
08:34Let's go.
08:36Let's go.
08:37Let's go.
08:38Let's go.
08:42Let's go.
08:46Let's go.
08:47Let's go.
08:49Let's go.
08:57Let's go.
09:42At the day's end, the tracery of battle is cleared from the plotting tables.
09:47The aircraft are serviced for tomorrow.
09:50The pilots return to report and rest until the next standby.
09:56We shan't forget September the 15th, 1940.
10:05Hello, boys, Peg.
10:06Yes, all except Mac, sir. He had to bail out.
10:09What about you? You all right? Did you get anything, sir?
10:11Yes, I got a hankle, but wait till I get out of here and I'll give him my report.
10:16Of course, he's lost some ash.
10:18Yeah, the one they got back, isn't it?
10:20Yeah.
10:21So him crash into the sea and the crew got away in a rubber dinghy.
10:24Well, that's 111 definitely destroyed.
10:28Sir, three of them got away to both.
10:29Yeah.
10:30By the way, sir, Wick is claiming to have destroyed a 215.
10:37Air Ministry Communique, the biggest bag yet, 185 enemy aircraft shot down.
10:46Seven of them by anti-aircraft guns and the remainder by our fighters.
10:55131 of the enemy aircraft were bombers.
10:59End of message.
11:05From London in the autumn of 1940, the world hears news of our first victory.
11:11The air defense of Britain has been tested, the enemy checked, and nearly 2,000 of his planes destroyed.
11:19Operation Sea Lion is postponed until the spring.
11:23The harvest is safely in.
11:25The air defense of Britain has been tested, the enemyof the season is canceled, and the most of the land
11:44we are coming.
11:47The air defense of Britain has been tested, the enemy of the season is disguised, and the enemy of the
11:55season is
12:03London, October 1940.
12:06The summer battle is over.
12:08The battle of winter is about to begin.
12:11What the attacker cannot take by storm, he will reduce by siege.
12:16His target is no longer fighter command,
12:19but our cities, our docks, our factories, our homes.
12:25This battle must be fought patiently through the long night.
12:28If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States,
12:36including all that we have known and cared for,
12:40will sink into the abyss of a new dark age,
12:44made more sinister and perhaps more protracted
12:48by the lights of perverted science.
12:53Now that we have set so high a price upon their day,
12:56we know the Germans must come at night,
12:59and we must plan to fight them in the dark.
13:02We know they fly to their targets on a radio beam, which we must bend.
13:07We know we must have night fighters with radar for eyes.
13:11For months we've been experimenting.
13:12With our new ground interception stations,
13:15we can now guide a night fighter to within three miles of an enemy bomber.
13:19From that range, he can see it on his own radar set and can close in on it.
13:24Within weeks, within months, we may have enough.
13:27If the people of the cities can hold out that long.
13:41Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe takes off for the big blitz.
13:45The bright day is done, and we are for the dark.
14:13I am a neutral reporter.
14:15I have watched the people of London live and die
14:19ever since death in its most ghastly garb
14:23began to come here as a nightly visitor five weeks ago.
14:28The dusk is deepening.
14:31Listening crews are posted all the way from the coast to London
14:34to pick up the drone of the German planes.
14:39Now they're going into the public shelters.
14:42This is not a pleasant way to spend the night,
14:44but the people accept it as their part in the defense of London.
14:49They'll be over tonight,
14:50and they'll destroy a few buildings and kill a few people.
14:55Probably some of the people you are watching now.
14:58Now it's eight o'clock.
15:05Jerry is a little bit late tonight.
15:20Hello, Mrs. Fox.
15:21You're here early tonight.
15:22Well, I'm at the same site, aren't I?
15:24Yes, you are.
15:25Cold tonight, isn't it?
15:26It is, that.
15:27Watch out, darling.
15:28Hello, Mrs. Fox.
15:29Hello, Mrs. Fox.
15:30Good evening.
15:30Good evening.
15:31Hello, girls.
15:32Oh, hello.
15:33Oh, this is Mrs. Finch and Doris.
15:49The nightly siege of London has begun.
15:52The city is dressed for battle.
16:04Seven men went to the road,
16:07went to the road,
16:10seven men, six men,
16:12five men, four men,
16:13three men, two men,
16:15one men, and his dog,
16:17went to the road,
16:19Oh, hello.
16:21Oh, hello.
17:19THE END
17:24Here they come.
17:54Here they come.
18:24This burning land is our front line, with cities for salience, where the fighting is heaviest.
18:33London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Plymouth, Southampton and Sheffield, Birmingham, Coventry.
18:44We fool Jerry sometimes, though. We bend his radio beams so he flies on a daft course.
18:49Then we light decoy fires in the open country for him to bomb.
18:52One night we collected 230 AGs, one oil bomb and a packet of incendiaries.
18:57Our casualties were two cows and two chickens.
19:10There will be no church bells this Christmas.
19:13They are the warning of invasion.
19:15But there will be Christmas of a sort.
19:26The song of the Lord is the Lord.
19:31The song of the Lord is the Lord.
19:48Day, Lord, we greet thee,
19:54Lord, we shall be born here,
19:59Here to thee be born here.
20:09Lord, we shall be born here,
20:20Here to thee be born here,
20:25Here to thee be born here,
20:30Here to thee be born here,
20:36Here to thee be born hither
20:46We have a Union One, Trinidad Street!
20:49No, you can't sell it,
20:50to the carpet all the way,
20:51There to the carpet all the way.
20:52Come on, Colonel, we'll come se.
20:59I'm the dummy!
21:03I'm!
21:03Oh, my God.
21:24The year is dying in the night.
21:27Ring out wild bells and let him die.
21:31The night of the 29th of December, 1940.
21:36A year of flame and fury burns out in the walls of London.
22:01The night of the 29th of December, 1930.
22:04The night of the 29th of January, 1970.
22:11This is a great day.
22:11The night of the 29th of December, 1970.
22:17The night of the 29th of December, 1990.
22:17The night of the 29th of January, 1960.
22:29Oh, my God.
22:58A new year, a new day.
23:36Oh, my God.
23:45Nice to meet you.
23:47Are you all right?
23:48All right for you.
23:54Bless you, my beautiful.
23:56You look pretty beautiful yourself too, mate.
24:03London raises her head, shakes the debris of the night from her hair,
24:08and takes stock of the damage done.
24:11London has been hurt during the night.
24:16The sign of a great fighter in the ring is,
24:19can he get up from the floor after being knocked down?
24:23London does this every morning.
24:32London and Coventry.
24:35Glasgow and the towns along the Clyde.
24:39Cardiff and the cities of the West.
24:41Hull and the eastern shipyards.
24:45The docks at Portsmouth and Belfast.
24:49And London again and again.
24:53After the few, the many.
25:12Not all the service is run as they did yesterday, but the city has managed to get to work on
25:17time, one way or another.
25:24Our defences grow stronger and the nights shorter as the New Year advances.
25:30We have lost over a million houses, but our cities still live.
25:35although 40,000 of our citizens have died.
25:38It's still indeed.
25:46So, let's go.
25:46Open it road.
25:51It's still one night.
25:52It's still a day, before it is over.
25:53Lord.
25:53It's still a day, even more than a...
25:56The end.
26:01It's still a day.
26:05It's still a day.
26:37The End
26:42Our cities have held out.
26:45Our defenses grow stronger and the night shorter as the new year advances.
26:50This is another spring, and those who have not died will fight again.
