As an ex Royal Air force NCO, I wonder if aircrew of today listen to this whilst releasing weapons on nations that have nothing to do with defence of the UK today, but defecne of a unified NATO, US led agenda for global domination, especially in areas that are rich in oil and gas reserves and/or areas that are geopolitically vital to the domination and security of! Still, this tune remains a good standing in national pride when national pride was some thing to savor and remain confident in!
RIP Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane, an Irish pilot from Co. Dublin who flew with the RAF during the Battle of Britain. He shot down 26 German aircraft. He was killed at the age of 21 on 15 July 1942.
FRANCE FELL OUR MORAl was down my dad joined the R.C.A.F. HE FOUGHT FOR KING/COUNTRY CHURCHILL GAVE THE ORDERS LIKE LIONS WE FOUGHT NEVER CRACKED CHURCHILL SAID HITLER KNOWS HE MUST BREAK US IN OUR ISLAND OR LOOSE THE WAR MY DAD FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BRITIAN "WE KICKED HITLER GOD DAM FUCKEN ASS" THE AMERICANS DONT EVEN KNOW THIS IF IT WAS NOT FOR CANADA BRITIAN FREE FRENCH POLISH PILOTS HITLER WOULD HAVE WON THE WAR WAR DEMOCRACY WE DEFENDED USA THEY DONT KNOW IT THEY WOULD HAVE LOST DEM.
@liberal20111 ; Thank you the Canadians are always forgotten or airbrushed aside..But the Maple leaf has always been there when we needed it. God bless those Canadian pilots that died over the skies of England.
Give me a Canadian to fight alongside any day....Still paying the price in Afghan.
Once we ruled almost all the world and all the oceans of the world. Now we find it hard to control our streets, Change needs to come back to this country and the British Lion needs to be taken out from its cage.
@ADMERALSMITH I would rather remember them all. The Americans weren't from a country that was fighting or had already been lost to Germany. They came becuase they thought it right.
@bmgm3 "They came becuase they thought it right". ? or was it that they saw which way the fight might go and if it went Germanys way then The US would be under mortal threat ?? Oh cynical me eh?
@GERMANOPHILE Maybe they could just see what a shower of shite the Nazis were and hadn't forgot Germany's previous history on world wars ? Just a thought.
Hitler never intended to invade Britain he wanted them to sign a peace treaty so he could move east. Even if the luftwaffe had succeeded in crippeling the RAF an invasion would still have been very unlikely. The royal navy was to strong for the kriegsmarine and it`s doubtfull that airpower alone would have been enough to stop them from attacking an invasion fleet. The luftwaffe was certainly not defeated allthough the lost many men and planes. Most where moved east for the attack on russia.
@Bombarlari Whilst what you have said is true to an extent, do you seriously think that after 1 or 2 or 3 years of german air superiority over the British Isles there would have been much of a Royal Navy left? where would it hide? The Royal Navy would have stopped an imminent invasion if the Battle was lost, but unless the RAF had won a second Battle of Britain at a later date, after losing the first, we would have been invaded at some point, so the point is moot.
@TLSUk The point is there was never gonna be an invasion of britain simply cause it had now strategic value to the germans. The battle of britain was neither won nor lost by either side. Both sides suffered losses but neither the RAF nor the Luftwaffe were defeated .The luftwaffe shifted attention to the east for the russian attack. The battle of britain was a big boost to british morale but didn`t stop an invasion nor did it defeat the luftwaffe.
@Bombarlari granted it boosted british morale but the Luftwaffe didn't have the same amount of resources for Operation Barbarossa after a hell of a lot of their planes (and ours) were shot out of the sky...
@Bombarlari You know absolutely nothing about strategy. If Germany had invaded Britain it would have had massive consequences. Number One, USA can not use Britain as an immovable aircraft carrier to launch at invasion of Nazi Europe, thus all remaining western opposition would have been neutralised. Number 2, British resistance in North Africa would have crumbled, thus handing the Germans the mediterranean and the Suez Canal, both important economically and freeing up more soldiers.
Number Three, British and later American bombers started a massive bombing campaign that shattered the luftwaffe and German industry by the end of the way, they did this from Britain, at the same time Germany had to have thousands of men, aircraft, AA guns, ammunition in Europe to try to stop them, these did not go to the Russia Front. Number 4, Russia almost lost battles like Stalingrad what if Germany had all these extra advatanges no second front, the entire industry of europe focused on
@QuaVzBuMzGB Well, according to the limited resources I can access here (i.e. the net), the engine in the Bell P-59 (the first US jet fighter) came from the Power Jets W.1 which came from the Gloster E.28/39 and was built under contract in the US. The engine in the Lockheed P-80, the first operationally used jet fighter in the USAAF came from plans developed from a British de Havilland H-1 B turbojet.
But I don't remember jet engines being in the discussion... :-)
The dog fight scenes in this were used for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The attack on Death Star was also copied from WW2 british movie The Dam Busters with a near identical dialogue.
@llucan01 you're wrong - completely different vehicles and technology - they didn't even have the internet then whereas the empire had subspace communications - propellers don't work in space - i know
I went from the "Where Eagles Dare" theme to here, and then hopped in the Hawker Hurricane, er, Jaguar XK8, and went to blockbuster to rent them, and they don't have either. How sad is that, I remember 5 years ago renting this movie from Blockbuster.
They did. 13 French Pilots participated in the battle of Britain. And hundreds of thousands of them were alongside british forces on D-Day, on the beaches.
And Canadians. Way to forget them. And yes, numbers fail. But sword beach had a few divisions of Free French there, as part of the British Commando regiments.
I think it should be remembered that if Britain had lost the battle of Britain, then Britain would be speaking German now and the Americans would be speaking German and Japanese. The Americans would not have had a bridgehead in Europe to help launch an attack but also America would have lost the battle of Midway. Why? Because Britain gave America the secrets of Radar which enabled them to win it.
the late yamanoto said after pearl harbour,they might have just woke up a sleeping giant,more like a sleeping dragon after the 2 big one were dropped.
He didn't. It's a misquotation. Closest he said was that the victory there was like kicking a rapid dog. But the sleeping giant quote is from war films, not fact. Like that one about invading america, and guns behind every blade of grass.
well history show america was indeed a sleeping giant so to speak,Once they change gear to total mobilisation,
they literally destroyed the whole japanese offensive fleet and those remaining were confined to defensive operation and their bomber command in the japan theatre make no distinction between civilian n military.hence the word sleeping giant.
@yerwot1 Actually, the US had its own radar systems, as there had been parallel development of the technology in the mid-thirties. But yes, we would have lost the crucial refinement and practice of the British systems and operators. Not sure if we'd be speaking two languages, as the primary roadblock to our involvement was isolationism which still allowed for the development of defensive systems (October 1935 Popular Science has an article on US defensive radar developments).
@yerwot1 I always find the 'now they would be speaking German' argument a little weak. The Soviet Union occupied many eastern European nations for decades, how many of them speak Russian now?
@slappyfish308 The problem was, in the Battle of Britain was lost, Nazi Germany would not of have been under constant air attacks (launched from Britain), allowing them to boost their supplies in the Soviet Union and maybe even take it over.
@DrHooty911 I am well aware of that. I am simply saying that in the hypothetical world of a Nazi victory I find it unlikely that they would have replaced all the languages of their conquered territories with German. In the Soviet Union mabye as their plan was to wipe out the population and replace it with ethnic Germans. But in the west the 'equal' aryan races of France, Britain etc would have kept their languages.
@yerwot1 it wasn't radar that helped the Americans win the battle of Midway but Code Breakers when the found out what Target AF is by saying there was a Water Shortage there
@yerwot1 I'm pretty sure America could hold their own against the Japanese and Nazis purely because of the second amendment. Even admiral Yamamoto said that if they invaded America, "The minute we land, there's a gun behind every blade of grass."
@odonnell1218 Without British victory then- no you wouldn't, dont take my word for it, look at un-biased history of the facts. The US at that time were vastly un-prepared for an all out war with who would have invaded your Nation, Hitller was relying on American feeling of not wanting to be drawn into another European war!. he knew of your vast arms producing capability, so undoubtadely he would have struck! and hard and he would have, using our Island as his carrier base, so to speak.
@odonnell1218 Not at all. Remember 1814? The one militia army to defend Washington fled the scene, along with everyone else who evacuated despite the good ol' second amendment.
@MrStig691 well, it would be quite foolish for a militia to line up like a bunch of faggots and take excessive casualties just because "that's the rule of warfare"...bet the Brits bitched and moaned when the same militia sniped the precious "noble" officers with preference over the lowly draftees...
@yerwot1 Yeh, how much of Poland and former east Germany speaks Russian after 60 years of Soviet occupation? I always find that line of reasoning a little strange.....
@TitanicMatthew Cheers mate, considering the sort of messages Americans usually give us 'limeys' or 'britfags' that message is actually massively appreciated.
@SpitfireUK2 Well i know theyre are alot of (Censored) out here on youtube who just love causing trouble for others.
I Salute anyone who like my Grandfather fought the "Jerry's" During WW2.
The R.A.F is one of those things we need to pay more tribute too, if hitler had captured England it would have been a very different war. they stopped him COLD.
@SpitfireUK2 Lol, i should have been more specific, my apologies ^_^ He served on a LCF during the Invasion of Normandy, on Omaha Beach. As a matter of fact the LCF he was on was A British ship rather than American.
@SpitfireUK2 He had mentioned to me that they were part of a special detachment of gunboats meant to skim the shoreline and provide covering fire for the landing forces. I have copies of the "diagram of ships" and i see my Grandfathers ship "LCF-3" is mentioned as being on the Dog Green Sector of Omaha Beach. It is kinda odd that a British ship is in that group But i guess i shouldn't be surprised.
@TitanicMatthew That is really fascinating, and also bloody scary thought!! By the way mate, I do see alot of Anti British sentiment among many Americans on youtube. Please tell me this is not a general populous opinion.
@SpitfireUK2 There are a MIXED variety, haters tend to go in force on youtube lol trust me i know.......
As for a GENERAL POPULOUS i dunno, i really couldn't say, I've heard a ton of Anti and PRO British sentiments but i couldn't tell you for sure weather we ALL feel that way mate lol I just now I'm not racist or Anti ANYBODY Lol unless your a NAZI Then Ummmm Hehe he he he THEN YOU OPEN A WHOLE CAN OF WORMS 0_0
I think a remake would be cool... but all the planes used for the film doesnt fly anymore :( and without real AC the movie would suck... The real aviation movies are long gone... saidly.
those of you who want to watch the actual movie, go to my channel i just uploaded the full movie, and you dont have to go to no gay website and download a load of shit.
@yourass117 I wouldn't mind it if by "remake" they really just mean another film about the Battle. IMO, a miniseries along the lines of "Band of Brothers" might not be a bad idea. The only issue I had with this movie is that it's hard to appreciate that the battle was four months long.
But yeah, there's no need to remake THIS film. It's just fine as it is.
@zerstorer335 Both good points. But consider the special effects, the reality of the scenes could be blisteringly stark. Consider the few moments (Eagle Sqadron) in Pearl harbour, amplified to represent the Summer of '40. Could be amazing, yippee-kay-yay.!!
@SALTYWOOFHOUND Sure, there's no doubt in my mind that they'd be able to do better visuals (although I'm not sure how they'd be able to top how they actually blew up the hangar at Duxford). But I still don't think they should re-make THIS movie. There's plenty of stories out there from the battle they could tell. There would still be overlap like between "Longest Day" and Private Ryan / Band of Brothers. B
ut don't cop out by taking an old, successful script and just redoing it.
@yourass117 um were loosing vetrans in the hundreds almost every day dont think there up to much fighting but yes i bet some would with they had there old "girl" back and lay down some justice
When the Battle of Britain took place, 1940 Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany,, this movie tells of this Battle, when the Luftwaffe was beaten and driven from the Skies.
The P51 aka Mustang was a fighter built for the RAF in America and did not enter war service until much later, the fastest piston fighter WW2 was the British Typhoon fighter/bomber was again the RAF Mosquito
In Spanish: From Venezuela...question: ¿como se llama la fuerza que destruyo a la lutffwaffe? La 8ª fuerza aerea del ejercito de los estados unidos...junto a sus maravillosos P-51...
Is it true there will be a remake of this film? If so that would be a shame. There is no reason to remake such a fantastic film. All a remake would do is chance ruining a fantastic flick.
We have been given permission by the UK Cabinet Office to apply for the composer of this music, Ron Goodwin, to be belatedly knighted for his services to cinema music. If you want to show your support for this please message me! This site will not let me publish the email link! We have already had emails of support from the UK, The Netherlands, New Zealand the USA and we have only been going a week!
"Never have so many owed so much to so few." Truer words were never spoken. And most people have no idea how close Fighter Command came to being defeated.
I put some thought into this question the other day. What percentage should be assigned to each of the "Big Three" for winning the war? After much thought it comes out like this: British Empire: 33% USA 33% USSR 33%. While this percentages would change throughout the war, the final results would be about equal.
Probably about right. The Commonwealth pretty much took care of Europe and the Med, with America helping out later on, the USA took care of the Pacific with the Commonwealth helping out and the USSR kept Germany busy in the east.
Lots of Americans know about the Battle of Britain, and the "few" who stopped the Luftwaffe and saved the world. Don't judge a country of 300 million people so quickly.
FDR got Lend Lease for Britain. That was the best he could do before Pearl Harbor.
Polish pilots shot down fully 1/8 of all German aircraft losses during the Battle of Britain even though they were not permitted to be operational until the sixth week of the Battle. Were it not for the Poles, the British would not have known what is a finger-four formation, which is much superior to a three-plane V-formation that was the flawed tactic of the RAF that cost many losses. Don't forget that the Poles knew Luftwaffe tactics from the Battles of Poland & France.
why do most americans think they won the war we put a lot of effort into that war to stop those retarded nazis-put it this way we got the nazis wrestled them pinned them down and let the americans beat them to a pulp. Anyway maybe we should charge you for our service helping you in afghanistan after all we agreed to HELP YOU not the other way round
If you compare the canpaigns held by the Red Army at the eastern front with the famous D Day you will see the difference, especially concerning the number of casualties ...take a look.
4 people did not repeat please...
SKILLS836 1 week ago
As an ex Royal Air force NCO, I wonder if aircrew of today listen to this whilst releasing weapons on nations that have nothing to do with defence of the UK today, but defecne of a unified NATO, US led agenda for global domination, especially in areas that are rich in oil and gas reserves and/or areas that are geopolitically vital to the domination and security of! Still, this tune remains a good standing in national pride when national pride was some thing to savor and remain confident in!
8corporal 2 weeks ago
lookout for a hun in the sun
smithy17000 3 weeks ago
The youtube counter must be wrong. There /should/ be 1,168,487 views.
GoRockQuads 1 month ago
RIP Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane, an Irish pilot from Co. Dublin who flew with the RAF during the Battle of Britain. He shot down 26 German aircraft. He was killed at the age of 21 on 15 July 1942.
NKjetkid 1 month ago 6
4 people got a belly full of English Channel :D
AT4makeTANKgoBOOM 1 month ago
jolly good!
GuardianFilms0 1 month ago
Absolutely splendid, top hole, why it makes you just want to jump in your spitfire and shout Yah boo sucks to you, Fritzie.
kealyc1 2 months ago
FRANCE FELL OUR MORAl was down my dad joined the R.C.A.F. HE FOUGHT FOR KING/COUNTRY CHURCHILL GAVE THE ORDERS LIKE LIONS WE FOUGHT NEVER CRACKED CHURCHILL SAID HITLER KNOWS HE MUST BREAK US IN OUR ISLAND OR LOOSE THE WAR MY DAD FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BRITIAN "WE KICKED HITLER GOD DAM FUCKEN ASS" THE AMERICANS DONT EVEN KNOW THIS IF IT WAS NOT FOR CANADA BRITIAN FREE FRENCH POLISH PILOTS HITLER WOULD HAVE WON THE WAR WAR DEMOCRACY WE DEFENDED USA THEY DONT KNOW IT THEY WOULD HAVE LOST DEM.
liberal20111 2 months ago
@liberal20111 ; Thank you the Canadians are always forgotten or airbrushed aside..But the Maple leaf has always been there when we needed it. God bless those Canadian pilots that died over the skies of England.
Give me a Canadian to fight alongside any day....Still paying the price in Afghan.
Simon ex British soldier.
simon8382 1 month ago 2
Once we ruled almost all the world and all the oceans of the world. Now we find it hard to control our streets, Change needs to come back to this country and the British Lion needs to be taken out from its cage.
GamingLogics 4 months ago 2
Let's not forget the Americans who served in the Eagle Squadron of the RAF before the US officially entered the war.
Lowerthetone1 4 months ago
@Lowerthetone1 All seven of them? I think I would rather remember the 145 Poles, 127 Kiwis,112 Canadians, 88 Czechs and 28 Belgians
ADMERALSMITH 4 months ago
@ADMERALSMITH Yes, all seven of them, if that was the number.
Lowerthetone1 4 months ago
@ADMERALSMITH I would rather remember them all. The Americans weren't from a country that was fighting or had already been lost to Germany. They came becuase they thought it right.
bmgm3 4 months ago
@bmgm3 "They came becuase they thought it right". ? or was it that they saw which way the fight might go and if it went Germanys way then The US would be under mortal threat ?? Oh cynical me eh?
GERMANOPHILE 3 months ago
@GERMANOPHILE Maybe they could just see what a shower of shite the Nazis were and hadn't forgot Germany's previous history on world wars ? Just a thought.
bmgm3 3 months ago
@bmgm3 And for the thrill.
TheGroundedAviator 3 months ago
4 krauts on tail!
PETERBILT281DUEL 5 months ago
We're on our own, we're playing for time and it's running out!
MsipmsonW 5 months ago 3
@QuaVzBuMzGB Nazi Germany.
DrHooty911 5 months ago
wikid
theloveboxquartet 6 months ago
hello ron godwin I love your great music
theloveboxquartet 6 months ago
ich nost ein e berliner
milolovesmusic 6 months ago
@milolovesmusic Speak ENGLIS! Its an English VICTORY, not kraut >:D
SKILLS836 6 months ago
Hitler never intended to invade Britain he wanted them to sign a peace treaty so he could move east. Even if the luftwaffe had succeeded in crippeling the RAF an invasion would still have been very unlikely. The royal navy was to strong for the kriegsmarine and it`s doubtfull that airpower alone would have been enough to stop them from attacking an invasion fleet. The luftwaffe was certainly not defeated allthough the lost many men and planes. Most where moved east for the attack on russia.
Bombarlari 6 months ago
@Bombarlari Whilst what you have said is true to an extent, do you seriously think that after 1 or 2 or 3 years of german air superiority over the British Isles there would have been much of a Royal Navy left? where would it hide? The Royal Navy would have stopped an imminent invasion if the Battle was lost, but unless the RAF had won a second Battle of Britain at a later date, after losing the first, we would have been invaded at some point, so the point is moot.
TLSUk 6 months ago
@TLSUk The point is there was never gonna be an invasion of britain simply cause it had now strategic value to the germans. The battle of britain was neither won nor lost by either side. Both sides suffered losses but neither the RAF nor the Luftwaffe were defeated .The luftwaffe shifted attention to the east for the russian attack. The battle of britain was a big boost to british morale but didn`t stop an invasion nor did it defeat the luftwaffe.
Bombarlari 4 months ago
@Bombarlari granted it boosted british morale but the Luftwaffe didn't have the same amount of resources for Operation Barbarossa after a hell of a lot of their planes (and ours) were shot out of the sky...
jakeshortj 4 months ago
@Bombarlari You know absolutely nothing about strategy. If Germany had invaded Britain it would have had massive consequences. Number One, USA can not use Britain as an immovable aircraft carrier to launch at invasion of Nazi Europe, thus all remaining western opposition would have been neutralised. Number 2, British resistance in North Africa would have crumbled, thus handing the Germans the mediterranean and the Suez Canal, both important economically and freeing up more soldiers.
TLSUk 4 months ago
Number Three, British and later American bombers started a massive bombing campaign that shattered the luftwaffe and German industry by the end of the way, they did this from Britain, at the same time Germany had to have thousands of men, aircraft, AA guns, ammunition in Europe to try to stop them, these did not go to the Russia Front. Number 4, Russia almost lost battles like Stalingrad what if Germany had all these extra advatanges no second front, the entire industry of europe focused on
TLSUk 4 months ago
the destruction of Russia?
TLSUk 4 months ago
Now be quiet arm chair general
TLSUk 4 months ago
@QuaVzBuMzGB Well, according to the limited resources I can access here (i.e. the net), the engine in the Bell P-59 (the first US jet fighter) came from the Power Jets W.1 which came from the Gloster E.28/39 and was built under contract in the US. The engine in the Lockheed P-80, the first operationally used jet fighter in the USAAF came from plans developed from a British de Havilland H-1 B turbojet.
But I don't remember jet engines being in the discussion... :-)
zerstorer335 7 months ago
Damn, I'm not patriotic or anything, but this music makes me wanna climb in a spitfire and shoot down some Boche!
No offense to any Germans :)
ancalites 8 months ago 25
@ancalites Fuck 'em, they started it!
And they bombed our chippies. Bastards.
eldospinks 8 months ago
@ancalites 1 Spitfire vs some germam pilots?! I dont think that you´ll win...
NutzerYOu 2 months ago
@ancalites None taken.
Azzameen99AZ 1 month ago
@ancalites
*Spitfire. Capital letter please.
EyeHawk777 1 week ago
Repeat please....
MrThumpington 8 months ago
You can teach.... MONKEYS to fly better than that!
xxREDLEADER1xx 9 months ago
Ron Goodwin's music makes this film!
lincsposter 9 months ago
four jerries, 12 o'clock!
sprayframe 9 months ago
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CaptOQuinn 9 months ago
4 Germans were captured.
CaptOQuinn 9 months ago
I grew up with this movie and "The longest day" *sigh
Aemulator 10 months ago
ttack-a-ttack-a-ttack-ttack-a-ttack-a-ttack
dokkenratt 10 months ago
tally ho ginger,let them av it....
salian66 10 months ago
cant you smell gas!!!!!???
gp1585 10 months ago
4 people didn't watch out for the fighters
iceblue345 10 months ago 13
this should be Top Gear's theme song lol
superkryp13 11 months ago 3
@superkryp13 Pah I remember when that show was about good drivers driving good cars.
gnarkillkicksass 11 months ago
The dog fight scenes in this were used for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The attack on Death Star was also copied from WW2 british movie The Dam Busters with a near identical dialogue.
llucan01 11 months ago
@llucan01 you're wrong - completely different vehicles and technology - they didn't even have the internet then whereas the empire had subspace communications - propellers don't work in space - i know
Mossman67 7 months ago
I went from the "Where Eagles Dare" theme to here, and then hopped in the Hawker Hurricane, er, Jaguar XK8, and went to blockbuster to rent them, and they don't have either. How sad is that, I remember 5 years ago renting this movie from Blockbuster.
Acct1941 11 months ago
Good theme, i am proud that Polish pilots had best K/D ratio, elite of elites.
SwordManPL 11 months ago
"never before in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few".
Winston churchil
hammerhead4896 11 months ago
"Right lads, break it off, home and tea, for once you deserve it well done everybody"
*Victory roll over Edinburugh*
Plawranc 11 months ago
Silence in Polish!
iceblue345 11 months ago 2
@iceblue345 Repeat plizz!
carmium 11 months ago
Top Gear UK!
pubu12345 11 months ago
4 people are in a barrel
iceblue345 11 months ago
people from all over the world participated in ww2, thats why its called a world war.
goreziad 1 year ago
The Italian air force also took part in the Battle Of Britain . And the East Indian Squadren of the RAF had more kills than any other Squadren .
choidragon 1 year ago
@choidragon Not to mention the RCAF (Royal Canadian airforce did contribute alot in the battle of britain) Gotta love Canada :)
iceblue345 1 year ago 2
Repeat please!
Schweinetot 1 year ago
watch this vid for the list of who fought for the allies.(type in this title Battle of Britain Theme & Credits)
stonedonganjaweed 1 year ago
RAF dind´t fight alone, Czech pilots, Pole pilots, Dutch pilots, BelgiansPilots, and an important number of French pilots defeats the nazis
ViejoCabo 1 year ago 5
@ViejoCabo
lol, no french pilots helped! get real!
EyeHawk777 1 year ago
@EyeHawk777
They did. 13 French Pilots participated in the battle of Britain. And hundreds of thousands of them were alongside british forces on D-Day, on the beaches.
harlequin2262 1 year ago
@harlequin2262
there were no frenchies on D-Day. you say "hundreds of thousands" despite the fact that 150,000 men in total landed, half American, half English
EyeHawk777 1 year ago
@EyeHawk777 There weren't just Americans and English. There were also Scottish, Welsh, and Canadians.
caduncan07 1 year ago 2
@EyeHawk777
And Canadians. Way to forget them. And yes, numbers fail. But sword beach had a few divisions of Free French there, as part of the British Commando regiments.
harlequin2262 5 months ago
En français " La bataille d'Angleterre" et vive la RAF !
patxaran666 1 year ago
I think it should be remembered that if Britain had lost the battle of Britain, then Britain would be speaking German now and the Americans would be speaking German and Japanese. The Americans would not have had a bridgehead in Europe to help launch an attack but also America would have lost the battle of Midway. Why? Because Britain gave America the secrets of Radar which enabled them to win it.
yerwot1 1 year ago 28
@yerwot1 actually we'd probably be speaking russian now
jmoon83392 1 year ago
@yerwot1
even if they lost the battle of midway,
the late yamanoto said after pearl harbour,they might have just woke up a sleeping giant,more like a sleeping dragon after the 2 big one were dropped.
hlimkb 1 year ago
@hlimkb
He didn't. It's a misquotation. Closest he said was that the victory there was like kicking a rapid dog. But the sleeping giant quote is from war films, not fact. Like that one about invading america, and guns behind every blade of grass.
harlequin2262 1 year ago
@harlequin2262
well history show america was indeed a sleeping giant so to speak,Once they change gear to total mobilisation,
they literally destroyed the whole japanese offensive fleet and those remaining were confined to defensive operation and their bomber command in the japan theatre make no distinction between civilian n military.hence the word sleeping giant.
hlimkb 1 year ago
@yerwot1 Actually, the US had its own radar systems, as there had been parallel development of the technology in the mid-thirties. But yes, we would have lost the crucial refinement and practice of the British systems and operators. Not sure if we'd be speaking two languages, as the primary roadblock to our involvement was isolationism which still allowed for the development of defensive systems (October 1935 Popular Science has an article on US defensive radar developments).
zerstorer335 8 months ago
@yerwot1 I always find the 'now they would be speaking German' argument a little weak. The Soviet Union occupied many eastern European nations for decades, how many of them speak Russian now?
slappyfish308 8 months ago in playlist War tunes and such
@slappyfish308 The problem was, in the Battle of Britain was lost, Nazi Germany would not of have been under constant air attacks (launched from Britain), allowing them to boost their supplies in the Soviet Union and maybe even take it over.
DrHooty911 5 months ago
@DrHooty911 I am well aware of that. I am simply saying that in the hypothetical world of a Nazi victory I find it unlikely that they would have replaced all the languages of their conquered territories with German. In the Soviet Union mabye as their plan was to wipe out the population and replace it with ethnic Germans. But in the west the 'equal' aryan races of France, Britain etc would have kept their languages.
slappyfish308 5 months ago
@yerwot1 Too bad that UK nowadays has gone down the hole. Socialism really does kill, eh.
Winston2004 7 months ago
@Winston2004 Sez who ?
Harryaitch 6 months ago
Look at the U.S./Russia then...
DrHooty911 5 months ago
@yerwot1 it wasn't radar that helped the Americans win the battle of Midway but Code Breakers when the found out what Target AF is by saying there was a Water Shortage there
ExocetT615 6 months ago
@yerwot1
Spot on old chap.
BJBTJF 6 months ago
@yerwot1 What are you smoking? Please advise? I want some of that drug!
shocap1 6 months ago
@shocap1 ....
DrHooty911 5 months ago
@yerwot1
The Japanese did not have the means to defeat/ occupy the entire US.
CaptainAmerica322 5 months ago
@yerwot1 I'm pretty sure America could hold their own against the Japanese and Nazis purely because of the second amendment. Even admiral Yamamoto said that if they invaded America, "The minute we land, there's a gun behind every blade of grass."
odonnell1218 4 months ago
@odonnell1218 Without British victory then- no you wouldn't, dont take my word for it, look at un-biased history of the facts. The US at that time were vastly un-prepared for an all out war with who would have invaded your Nation, Hitller was relying on American feeling of not wanting to be drawn into another European war!. he knew of your vast arms producing capability, so undoubtadely he would have struck! and hard and he would have, using our Island as his carrier base, so to speak.
TheRanhyn 4 months ago
@odonnell1218 Not at all. Remember 1814? The one militia army to defend Washington fled the scene, along with everyone else who evacuated despite the good ol' second amendment.
MrStig691 3 months ago
@MrStig691 well, it would be quite foolish for a militia to line up like a bunch of faggots and take excessive casualties just because "that's the rule of warfare"...bet the Brits bitched and moaned when the same militia sniped the precious "noble" officers with preference over the lowly draftees...
stryker214 3 months ago
@yerwot1 Yeh, how much of Poland and former east Germany speaks Russian after 60 years of Soviet occupation? I always find that line of reasoning a little strange.....
slappyfish308 4 months ago in playlist War tunes and such
"A BATALHA DA GRÃ-BRETANHA" (Brazilian Title)
bebgororoti 1 year ago
@lagraf05 Yes indeed.
SpitfireUK2 1 year ago
A Snappy American Salute To You R.A.F Bloks Who Stopped Them Nazi's Cold.
Lol Cheers From Ca, USA.
TitanicMatthew 1 year ago 3
@TitanicMatthew Cheers mate, considering the sort of messages Americans usually give us 'limeys' or 'britfags' that message is actually massively appreciated.
SpitfireUK2 1 year ago
@SpitfireUK2 Well i know theyre are alot of (Censored) out here on youtube who just love causing trouble for others.
I Salute anyone who like my Grandfather fought the "Jerry's" During WW2.
The R.A.F is one of those things we need to pay more tribute too, if hitler had captured England it would have been a very different war. they stopped him COLD.
TitanicMatthew 1 year ago
@TitanicMatthew Your grandad was in the RAF?
SpitfireUK2 1 year ago
@SpitfireUK2 Lol, i should have been more specific, my apologies ^_^ He served on a LCF during the Invasion of Normandy, on Omaha Beach. As a matter of fact the LCF he was on was A British ship rather than American.
TitanicMatthew 1 year ago
@TitanicMatthew Still mate, thats not to be sniffed at, particulalry at Omaha of all places!!! What was a British ship doing at Omaha tho?
SpitfireUK2 1 year ago
@SpitfireUK2 He had mentioned to me that they were part of a special detachment of gunboats meant to skim the shoreline and provide covering fire for the landing forces. I have copies of the "diagram of ships" and i see my Grandfathers ship "LCF-3" is mentioned as being on the Dog Green Sector of Omaha Beach. It is kinda odd that a British ship is in that group But i guess i shouldn't be surprised.
TitanicMatthew 1 year ago
@TitanicMatthew That is really fascinating, and also bloody scary thought!! By the way mate, I do see alot of Anti British sentiment among many Americans on youtube. Please tell me this is not a general populous opinion.
SpitfireUK2 1 year ago
@SpitfireUK2 There are a MIXED variety, haters tend to go in force on youtube lol trust me i know.......
As for a GENERAL POPULOUS i dunno, i really couldn't say, I've heard a ton of Anti and PRO British sentiments but i couldn't tell you for sure weather we ALL feel that way mate lol I just now I'm not racist or Anti ANYBODY Lol unless your a NAZI Then Ummmm Hehe he he he THEN YOU OPEN A WHOLE CAN OF WORMS 0_0
^_^
TitanicMatthew 1 year ago
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shidoski 1 year ago
Their finest hour!!! Cheers mate.
redtailslick 1 year ago
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God bless everyone of them
umjustefra 1 year ago
swells the heart of every briton
thimpthon 1 year ago 2
Should be the national Anthem
NorthernStar1982 1 year ago
Thats a bloody good idea, The national anthem,, yeah I like that..
Who do I go to see to get it changed ??
skelracing 1 year ago
The Poles So very brave thank you §à" my deepest respect to Poland
burnley5960 1 year ago
3 people forgot to press the like button
jakeshortj 1 year ago
I think a remake would be cool... but all the planes used for the film doesnt fly anymore :( and without real AC the movie would suck... The real aviation movies are long gone... saidly.
LordKatzeify 1 year ago
@LordKatzeify yeh a remake would be great ,trouble is though the americans would win
floydbrfc 1 year ago
they should remake this film with typhoon and tornado's jet fighters .
proxyeva 1 year ago
@proxyeva lol yeah
jakeshortj 1 year ago
@proxyeva
yes as that would be the same, you cannot beat spitfires and hurricanes fighting 109's
Ynot46589 1 year ago
@proxyeva It's funney that both the RAF and the Luftwaffe use those aircraft.
TheGroundedAviator 1 year ago
I wonder what those pilots would have thought of thousands of a future gereration of Britons paying tribute to murderer Raoul Moat?
ossyrefugee 1 year ago 3
70 years ago this year and we still owe a massive debt to those men who saved this country from tyranny, THANK you.
60shotrod 1 year ago 3
This theme seems to almost put you in the cockpit!
Pointeman1 1 year ago 2
Well, this song truly represents the adrenalin rush that they went through when those brave men went up there.
Wow, good song. :)
Sangheili1000 1 year ago
Repeat please....
mosprime2 1 year ago 11
@mosprime2 "I say again two - three - zero!"
ashbytimuk 1 year ago
those of you who want to watch the actual movie, go to my channel i just uploaded the full movie, and you dont have to go to no gay website and download a load of shit.
greatestmanalive812 1 year ago
@greatestmanalive812
or you could just buy the film....
laservader1 1 year ago
Money?
greatestmanalive812 1 year ago
yes its called a job.... or your just stealing the film
laservader1 1 year ago
mate, im not gonna get into an argument, i uploaded it so people dont have to pay anything to watch this great film.
greatestmanalive812 1 year ago
@greatestmanalive812
you could at least change your account name.
EyeHawk777 1 year ago
and i didnt steal the film, i bought it, and ripped it
greatestmanalive812 1 year ago
My home town of Widnes got bombed by the Nazis three times, 3 of people kiled where friends of my Great Grandfather
Maltray 1 year ago
If they do a remake, every WW2 veteran should wage all out war on Hollywood!
yourass117 1 year ago 19
@yourass117 yup
Winston2004 8 months ago
@yourass117 I wouldn't mind it if by "remake" they really just mean another film about the Battle. IMO, a miniseries along the lines of "Band of Brothers" might not be a bad idea. The only issue I had with this movie is that it's hard to appreciate that the battle was four months long.
But yeah, there's no need to remake THIS film. It's just fine as it is.
zerstorer335 8 months ago
@zerstorer335 Both good points. But consider the special effects, the reality of the scenes could be blisteringly stark. Consider the few moments (Eagle Sqadron) in Pearl harbour, amplified to represent the Summer of '40. Could be amazing, yippee-kay-yay.!!
SALTYWOOFHOUND 6 months ago
@SALTYWOOFHOUND Sure, there's no doubt in my mind that they'd be able to do better visuals (although I'm not sure how they'd be able to top how they actually blew up the hangar at Duxford). But I still don't think they should re-make THIS movie. There's plenty of stories out there from the battle they could tell. There would still be overlap like between "Longest Day" and Private Ryan / Band of Brothers. B
ut don't cop out by taking an old, successful script and just redoing it.
zerstorer335 6 months ago
@zerstorer335 Points certainly well made your defence of "our finest hour" genuinely appreciated.
However lets recall the film in late 60's assembled with age-ing greats, particularly Olivier (Dowding) sincere and touching. Couldn't be repeated.
The film scrambled together the last "few", scaled replicas, models, mock-ups, was at the edge of its technology. Even filmed from choppers!!
Years on, Gary Gutierrez would have done it different, better?
With CGI who knows?
A mini series - Wowsers.?
SALTYWOOFHOUND 6 months ago
@yourass117 um were loosing vetrans in the hundreds almost every day dont think there up to much fighting but yes i bet some would with they had there old "girl" back and lay down some justice
gunny426plymouth 8 months ago
eduarlambert
When the Battle of Britain took place, 1940 Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany,, this movie tells of this Battle, when the Luftwaffe was beaten and driven from the Skies.
The P51 aka Mustang was a fighter built for the RAF in America and did not enter war service until much later, the fastest piston fighter WW2 was the British Typhoon fighter/bomber was again the RAF Mosquito
keirfree 2 years ago
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muscogeemike 1 year ago
In Spanish: From Venezuela...question: ¿como se llama la fuerza que destruyo a la lutffwaffe? La 8ª fuerza aerea del ejercito de los estados unidos...junto a sus maravillosos P-51...
eduarlambert 2 years ago
I know this sounds stupid.............IT'S THE THUNDERBIRDS!!!!
SR71ABCD 2 years ago
Is it true there will be a remake of this film? If so that would be a shame. There is no reason to remake such a fantastic film. All a remake would do is chance ruining a fantastic flick.
darktanko 2 years ago 4
Yes, most film remakes are terrible! :| Especially remakes of old classics.
loophunt 2 years ago
Great music and a great movie, too
Bahner87 2 years ago 3
We have been given permission by the UK Cabinet Office to apply for the composer of this music, Ron Goodwin, to be belatedly knighted for his services to cinema music. If you want to show your support for this please message me! This site will not let me publish the email link! We have already had emails of support from the UK, The Netherlands, New Zealand the USA and we have only been going a week!
lincsposter 2 years ago 2
@lincsposter Count me in please - and good luck
gibraltarisenglish 1 year ago
please contact me via this site... they wont allow us to pass on our email address! Regards John and Alwyn
lincsposter 1 year ago
"Never have so many owed so much to so few." Truer words were never spoken. And most people have no idea how close Fighter Command came to being defeated.
AdmiralCSN 2 years ago 4
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muscogeemike 1 year ago
What an wonderful and stiring piece of music for every Britishman who loves their nation!!!!!!!!
dokkenratt 2 years ago 6
RAF SALUTE!!!!!
zdenekklos 2 years ago 6
god bless the RAF and Fleet air arms!
killkidnumber2 2 years ago 4
thanks awwfully old chap!
25daveyboy 2 years ago 4
OK!!!
Sangheili1000 2 years ago
Don't you yell at me Mr Warwick!!
deafwebb 2 years ago 23
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yanks are wanks
fandingo69 2 years ago
luftwaffe were defeded in britain in 1940-1941
lordvayder2 2 years ago 14
@lordvayder2 *defeated
jakeshortj 1 year ago
I put some thought into this question the other day. What percentage should be assigned to each of the "Big Three" for winning the war? After much thought it comes out like this: British Empire: 33% USA 33% USSR 33%. While this percentages would change throughout the war, the final results would be about equal.
willconq 2 years ago 7
Probably about right. The Commonwealth pretty much took care of Europe and the Med, with America helping out later on, the USA took care of the Pacific with the Commonwealth helping out and the USSR kept Germany busy in the east.
David291 2 years ago 4
Lots of Americans know about the Battle of Britain, and the "few" who stopped the Luftwaffe and saved the world. Don't judge a country of 300 million people so quickly.
FDR got Lend Lease for Britain. That was the best he could do before Pearl Harbor.
mjlotus 2 years ago 4
Polish pilots shot down fully 1/8 of all German aircraft losses during the Battle of Britain even though they were not permitted to be operational until the sixth week of the Battle. Were it not for the Poles, the British would not have known what is a finger-four formation, which is much superior to a three-plane V-formation that was the flawed tactic of the RAF that cost many losses. Don't forget that the Poles knew Luftwaffe tactics from the Battles of Poland & France.
MrPloopy 2 years ago
why do most americans think they won the war we put a lot of effort into that war to stop those retarded nazis-put it this way we got the nazis wrestled them pinned them down and let the americans beat them to a pulp. Anyway maybe we should charge you for our service helping you in afghanistan after all we agreed to HELP YOU not the other way round
MyNameIsMargo123 2 years ago 3
Cause they are Egomaniac's! They did there part though, and I'd stand by that.
TheGroundedAviator 2 years ago
well done buddy, i offically label you a fool
marinoshulagreise 2 years ago
bugger sorry wrong video :)
marinoshulagreise 2 years ago
This is my favourite piece of music ever! : )
superfish345 2 years ago
Remember hearing just one Lanc....fecking Noise. Imagine a few hundred of them...
douglas18741892 2 years ago
OK England did a great job but who won the war were de russians....long live CCCP
antoniocmteixeira 2 years ago
The Ruskies didn't win the war,
but they did finish the Japs!
UBIQUEROL 2 years ago
If you compare the canpaigns held by the Red Army at the eastern front with the famous D Day you will see the difference, especially concerning the number of casualties ...take a look.
Greetings.
antoniocmteixeira 2 years ago
Well to be entirely fair if it wasnt for any of the 3 Allies (Britain, USA and Russia) the Germans would have won.
KeyToTime 2 years ago