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.

00:05:48 Well, Britain also had an army

00:07:25 The people who would be terrorized and forced to surrender.

00:08:56 Drive the ambulances and run the buses."

00:10:30 To lead them, the people had chosen Winston Churchill as their Prime Minister.

00:12:02 In dozen of flights, hundreds of planes.

00:16:32 ..trying for a knockout, before the flow of supplies from overseas reached port.

00:18:30 The pace was too hot. Something was going haywire.

00:20:00 Fighters in the front and in the rear Fighters weaving in and out of the bomber formations.

00:22:19 These few men with wings, alone in the sky

00:23:49 So he told Göring, break that spirit, crush the people, crush the spirit of democratic life itself.

00:25:44 Down the stairs or you can use the escalator."

00:27:54 He learned to exist with very little food.

00:29:18 Across the Channel, the enraged Göring took personal command of the operations.

00:33:39 End of message."

00:35:13 Maybe that way they could crush the stubborn British spirit.

00:38:19 Don't you think you ought to go away from this for a bit??'

00:39:40 ..Q-bombers they could get together

00:44:38 And in their hearts, was a grim determination, that this enemy must be destroyed.

00:47:51 Chin up and thumbs up.

00:50:13 First, because a regimented people, met an equally determined free people.

06:00:03 and from 5 to 6 miles high.