Lost Evidence: " The Battle of Britain " 3 of 5

[Cytacon]

Goering was a buffoon, a narcissistic slob, a blithering idiot.

[iFoRMaTioN1]

Germany was way to confident, that pretty much lost them the war.

[midsue]

Thanks Britain for not giving in to Hitlers demands of surrendering.

You did the right thing to fight on even if you were alone.

Greetings from Sweden. Long live Great Britain.

[ghostdivision7]

British rock in camouflage tricks! They fooled Rommel in the dessert again and again. :-)

[gopconservative78]

See sissy pussy French wouldn't haven't fought, the British fought and WON!

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

@gopconservative78 The circumstances for the french were intirely different. They had no island, they did not know the nazis would go around the Maginot line, they thought the nazis would not really attack and so on.

[edumedusp]

Germans were incredible stupid. They lost the war for themselves. Thank G-d.

[Jenjenilou]

OMG the Spitfire ...a thing of beauty. Loved it when the pilot said you 'thought you'd like to turn left and it turned left'. The Hurricane was like a tool a workman would strap on his back. Great planes both! Luck, radar, superb aircraft design and the Canadian Beaverbrook and his incredible aircraft production. Mighty tacticians Park and Dowling, and the young men who flew those kites up against the invader. History hangs on a hair .. and those men and those planes changed everything.

[Hanske90]

God bless goering for being such a massive idiot :p

[JEREX101]

@Hanske90 lol

[shuljup]

La Mansh saved Britain from a defeat and disgrace

[Joshuadrooney]

@shuljup No, what saved us is being able to repel an invading force, unlike you pathetic Russians. Go back to your vodka ivan.

[1945joshuaruiz]

@Joshuadrooney umm if hitler never invaded the ussr he would've asked for their help. And they didnt repel an invading force they repeled the worst nightmare known to man by losing 21 million men and just destroying the nazis the british only faced 4% of the germans and didnt face the 95% of germans including the waffen ss and one of the most unforgetable images to man like the russians witness

[rangergxi]

@1945joshuaruiz Still, not enough to discredit the UK during this conflict.

[martynrobin121]

The problem the British had was Pilots, NOT PLANES!! The British Factories didnt just stop because they were been bombed, Even the Schools ran on the time! Also The Empire was sending Vital Resources and Supplies and America. Hitler faced losing his Air-Force for every British pilots his Luftwaffe shot down, He lost 3! The Axis were been crushed in the battle of britain. R.A.F 3 Luftwaffe 1, Also the British secret weapons off mass destruction..RADAR!!!!

[Nneka1963]

If you stop @ 7:25 you see the Simon Templer sign!

Thank's for the uploads!

[Xiolablu3]

Thank God these guys were up to the task. God Bless Them, we all should be thankful. Its hard to imagnine that 60 years ago Europeans were killing each other and now we are a community. People moan about European Union, but how far we have come thanks to the sacrifices of these brave men. Surely anything is better than killing each other! Long live the EU!

[kozmon0t]

The Spitfire was a good fighter but the 109-e's should have scored better against it. The Spits have the advantage in an extended dogfight, but in the running battle of bomber intercept vs escort, low-speed maneuverability doesn't matter as much. The escort has no trouble shooting at the interceptor even if it's a much better plane.

Spits were notoriously unstable. A bit of wing damage could cripple them. They also nosed over on landing quite a bit.

[9806mani]

4:08 hail hitler XD

[glasfurd31]

Destroy the RAF in 4 days? Goering was hilarious.

[MrOutofthis]

@glasfurd31 and delirious too lol

[Ryanxclarke]

@glasfurd31 70 years now and still going strong

[murderman585]

@glasfurd31 i know right! XD he fucked up there, those dumb nazis may have taken, holland, France, belgium, poland, and many other countries, but they were too shit to take england and had more deaths than us in the battle of britain! yeh we raped germany in ww2

[guysmiley00]

@icool001 He did - look up the Norweigan heavy water plant that the Allies took out. If Hitler hadn't pushed out so many of Germany's top intellectuals, it's quite likely the Nazis would have been the world's first nuclear power.

[MrOutofthis]

@guysmiley00 ,who said they werent ?

[legendarytoyou]

@AlchemicGnosis hmm..you gotta point there. if anything Stalin was just a political target and the real brains behind Operation Uranus was Field Marshal Stukov. I look back on it now and ...yah Stalin didn't have the drive or brains to come up with something like that. only Stukov was that gutsy

[thatkidinthegreenhat]

The Nelson class ships were still in fairly good condition. Only Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, and Valiant received refits. The first King George V class battleship did not arrive until 1940. Prince of Wales followed in 1941. Just as important. Despite refits all these battleships were still to slow. Only the battlecruisers had adequate speed. And some including Hood could not reach that top speed because their machinery was worn out. The RN Fleet Air Arm also had obsolete aircraft.

[Exploderking51]

Wow the problem with the axis fighters and bombers is the german aircraft is the range is too short and the Japnese planes are too weakly armored.

[imaginationscene]

hope there is never a ww3 because nukes will mean end game for anyone

[ShortCardinalsFan262]

the axis would have lost the war reguardless. historians make it seem like germany almost completely conquered russia, which is so far from the truth. japans army couldnt have gone farther than california if they invaded, the american army was way to large and industrally powerful, and if the english home islands were lost, england still wouldnt have surrendered. they're spirit was tat stong.

[MrGrafted]

@ShortCardinalsFan262 Your wrong! If Britian fell, Russia would have fallen, even church hill said that.

The U.S would have fallen if Europe had fallen.

[guysmiley00]

@MrGrafted Why do you think it's unusual for Churchill, the leader of Britain, to overestimate the UK's importance in the war? if anything, that's exactly what you'd expect from someone in his position.

Russia turned the Germans back almost single-handed - if Britain had fallen, Hitler would still have had a hell of a time with the USSR. Really, his only chance there was if Japan invaded from the East at the same time, denying the Russians a safe haven anywhere in their territory.

[MrGrafted]

@guysmiley00 You must be joking right! You clearly dont know what you are talking about my friend. Germany almost had Russia with only half of the German Army. It was only wether thay did not prepare for.

Go learn alittle more plz. The russians were only good for dieing in numbers.

[guysmiley00]

@MrGrafted Always amusing to be chided on education by someone who can't spell "weather".

As for what the Russians were good at, I suggest you read up on the following topics - Stalingrad, T-34, IL-2. After being assured of their Eastern border, Russia crushed the Nazis - the only thing the Allies managed was to keep all of Europe from falling under Stalin's control.

[epyon26754]

he did, but not by that name

[eus478]

and: not the money or priority

[antonyvt]

i often wonder what if Germany never attack Russia,and put her might on Britian 100%,would we have made it,a real 50/50 in my eyes.

[badur77]

it was not going to happen, because there was to many Polish soldiers in GB at this time

[eus478]

and: Stalin would have attacked with the same successful surprise. Where it would have ended? At the atlantic-coast.

[legendarytoyou]

actually some historians believe after awhile the Russians would've gotten to nervous of Germany than to just leave it alone and attack her eastern borders while Hitler was busy dealing the RAF. Stalin was no fool; if he sensed Germany was about to try something he usually prepared for it. Look at Stalingrad, 6th Army thought they had Russia on its knees. Think again =), they used Stalingrad as a dupe to lure the 6th Army into a trap. quite clever actually.

[guysmiley00]

@legendarytoyou No, Hitler trapped himself in Stalingrad all on his own, with his obsession over taking the city named after his enemy. Had he finished the first year's offensive and taken Moscow, it's unlikely the Red Army would have had the leadership to strike back effectively against the Nazis.

[captcheesy]

No wonder the nazi's lost the war.

[adastea]

lol goering was a douche

[spiritchannel]

We must never forget the brave sacrifices of the British to maintain democracy in the world. Long Live the UK!

[ShortCardinalsFan262]

UK and USA: Best alliance the world will ever know.

[1945joshuaruiz]

@spiritchannel no in the 1940's it was still an empire so long live Great Britain

[Yanqui9]

Dornier is a German name, not a French one. (he keeps saying Dor-nee-ayyyy), bet the makers got some letters of that!

[historian246]

LOL those dumb Nazis!

[darkmarkrammstein]

bravo for your grandad mate!

[carelessband]

Theres a shot of my grandad trying to relax in a chair on this bit!.. nearly knocked me out my seat! he was in 312 squadron

[BlackBirdZGTR]

Lol where?

[carelessband]

7 minutes 39 seconds in. as Bam Bamberger describes the tension and how they tried to relax, the car behind him is the squadron's Austin 'Hack' which ended up being pranged on a raid and caused a lot of the boys taking up cycling!

[Ludde365]

Oh shit!

[Eurofighter19]

@carelessband

My respects and admiration to your grandfather.

[PPiTTislakatamia]

@carelessband your grandfather is consider a hero by people like me...along with all flyboys of the R.A.F and i can say i feel pretty good of the R.A.F fields based in my home island Cyprus...

[carelessband]

@PPiTTislakatamia My Grandfather M.A.Liskutin was stationed at Nicosia flying Gloucester Meteors in the fifties.

[Mohh2haxer]

@carelessband Nice find :P

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

@carelessband You must be proud of your grandfather to be a pilot of a fighter such as the spitfire.

[carelessband]

@TheIcelandicPatriot Thank you. yes I am indeed very proud of him and he is still to this day an inspiration to me. he never gives up even at 91! he still walks 2 miles every morning before breakfast. not many men like that now.

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

@carelessband We both have grandfathers that fought in the war. My grandfather was a captain of an escort ship in the north atlantic ocean, fighting hitlers seawolfs (submarines) he saved 813 lives one day. He's not here today but he made me the man i am today. What ever they were pilots, seamen, infantry or in the recistance they were all heroes and they shall never be forgotten.

[carelessband]

@TheIcelandicPatriot I am impressed! he saved many legacies to come. consider the future families he was responsible for bringing into existence! what a man!

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

@carelessband Thank you and so is yours who knows how many lives each R.A.F pilot saved, i admire them for there curage and the fact that they never gave up. One R.A.F plane get's shot down, Three more will take it's place.

[FoxyQTpie]

there is actually a guy named bam bam!!

[creamycurdy]

i really want to know the song played at 0:49 sec