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The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain is being marked with a reading of one of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past.
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As mentioned, today is the 70th anniversary of that famous Winston Churchill speech.

There is going to be a reading outside Winston Churchills war rooms with Spitfires and Hurricane doing a fly over at Whitehall.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11026119
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On top of this the BBMF (Battle of britain memorial flight) will be doing fly past's at key bases in the UK (right over my head :D)! Keep your eyes peeled today guys :)

I'm just trying to find out which radio stations the speech will be on, I'd like to listen to it! Anyone any ideas? I suspect radio4 but can't check at work.
 
On Radio4 now they are discussing wether(sp?) it was a turning point of WWII. Man...i'm only 21 i'm listening to R4 :o
 
From the BBC site

The Luftwaffe had the clear advantage
750 long-range and 250 dive bombers
600 single-engined and 150 twin-engined fighters.

The RAF had only 600 planes :eek:
 
It was a combination of things that saved our bacon, but undoubtedly it was the Battle of Britain that saved the British Empire (for a short while anyway!).

I'm reading a very good book on the battle of France, (and subsequently Britain) at this very moment. James Holland's new one - very interesting read.
 
I watched The Battle of Britain special edition dvd last weekend as my own sort of tribute. Please let us know if this is on the radio.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many, to so few.
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Amen Mr Churchill.
 
Hope they fly My way.

My nan told me stories about watching the dogfights over London, she used to work at Woolwhich arsenal at the time. Crazy times to have been alive.

Dint they say if that if the Germans hadn't shifted to bombing cities fighter commands infrastructure would have collapsed after another few more days pounding? If they had carried on things might have been a little different.
 
Apparently, we were days away from capitulation! It was that close. Britain couldn't sustain any more bombing. Hitler's rash decision to change tactics saved the nation.
 
Hmmm Im quite interested in the WW2 area and im sure ive seen or read an analysis or operation sealion's chances of success even with air superiority and a computer model and a few proper ww2 boffins concluded that it would fail by about the time it reached the outskirts of south west London.

Ill have to find the article or documentary, obviously its very speculative but it is very interesting stuff.
 
Efour2 said:
Dint they say if that if the Germans hadn't shifted to bombing cities fighter commands infrastructure would have collapsed after another few more days pounding? If they had carried on things might have been a little different.
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Supposedly, but it was more than just that. Better organisation, better tactics, and better aircraft production helped win the Battle in the end.
 
Also yeah the home advantage, if our lad got shot down and bailed he was home for dinner.
if they did "for zem ze war was over ja!"
 
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