Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

00:00:07 WHY WE FlGHT A SERlES OF SEVEN lNFORMATlON FlLMS

00:02:31 ..to work for him or starve.

00:04:00 Drop parachute troops to take over the air fields and establish beach heads.

00:05:44 And what about Jona?. How was he doing?.

00:07:21 There was Britain herself. The people of Britain.

00:08:48 Ferry the planes."

00:10:19 In a democracy, it is not the Government that makes war...

00:11:31 That is the sound that became part of life, for every man, woman and child in Britain.

00:16:20 And Hitler paid off with 180 more planes.

00:17:28 In the first 10 days of the Battle of Britain, Göring launched 26 major attacks to get command of the air

00:19:42 And he adopted new tactics too.

00:21:14 Aircraft plants.

00:23:28 Invasion plans were going completely haywire.

00:24:56 Rehearsed firefighters. Moved into bomb shelters.

00:27:23 Churches.

00:28:42 Rescue squads labored night and day

00:31:55 Hostile formation to the south."

00:34:30 Bombs blasting the historic past, out of the lives of Englishmen.

00:36:59 Homes were destroyed by incineration.

00:38:55 S.I.O.?. Operations for the night."

00:41:56 All the available German night-bombers, were put into the air.

00:46:45 In a matter of minutes, more than 15 hundred diferent sections of the city burst into roaring flames.

00:49:10 The Battle of Britain was won, but not by Hitler.

00:50:46 And the RAF were the men who could fight it.