30 Dec Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain, WWII Movie starring Michael Caine
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (Winston Churchill)
(1969) This movie was particularly interesting to me because at the time I watched it I was also listening to the audiobook, “The Few” which tells about the U.S. pilots who in 1940 ignored the laws of American neutrality and joined the RAF in order to fly the British Spitfires. Both this movie and that book tell the story from the English (sorely outnumbered) and from the German points of view.
An excellent visualization of the spectacular and terrifying air battles and what the young pilots on both sides went through.
Lots of dogfights. A good review of the sequence of events. I’ll watch it again.
Battle of Britain at amazon.com
You can watch the trailer at the Turner Classic Movie site.
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