| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes) |
| Summary |
A social history documentary series featuring stories of human interest from 1940, exploring the courage and resilience of the human spirit during the Battle for Britain. People from all over the globe who joined the Royal Air Force explain what it was like to live through this fundamental conflict. A study of the Germans' massive aerial attack that would finish off Dowding's RAF once and for all, Adlertag, (Eagle Day, 13th August 1940) and how Fighter Command tried to repel such a huge show of force. Using CGI effects and listening to stories from pilots such as Squadron Leader George Bennions, we hear what it was like to bale out of the a burning cockpit and experience the terror of a dog-fight between an RAF Spitfire and a German Messerschmitt |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed October 9, 2015) |
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In English |
| Subject |
Dowding, Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Baron, 1882-1970
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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Airplanes -- Piloting
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Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
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Fighter pilots
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Fighter plane combat
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Sachs, Andrew, narrator
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Saunders, Stephen, producer, director
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