Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "World War II: The 13 Hours That Saved Britain | Free Documentary History" video.

  1. Complete rubbish Mareczek, Polish 303 Squadron had the highest confirmed kill rate of 58.5 kills during the battle, and therefore Polish 302 Squadron had less than that figure. I cannot find the individual kill tally for 302 Polish squadron but being less than 303's 58.5 kills I suggest total Polish kills during the battle were around 100 kills, That is 100 kills from the total luftwaffe losses of +1900 aircraft, therefore the Poles accounted for approximately one luftwaffe aircraft in twenty, and NOT six. The top scoring pilots in fighter command during the battle of Britain were as follows. Eric Lock - 21 James Lacey - 18 Archie McKellar - 17.5 Josef Frantisek - 17 Colin Gray - 15.5 Seems to be a distinct lack of Polish names there to support your claim of Polish "super pilots". But this is not me demeaning the Polish fliers who we still gratefully honour to this day at EVERY remembrance day parade I've attended over the last 40 years in the UK, but merely to deflate your baseless claims which seek to demean the courage of ALL the pilots of fighter command in order to inflate the effectiveness of the Poles.
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  2. Hats off to Mr Walker and his ilk. I too was educated in the 1970s by men who had fought during WW2. A tough inner city school, where NONE dare show disrespect in front of the teachers (and strangely enough no accusations of historical sexual abuse either). How we need their like back amongst us again.
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  3.  @havennewbowtow8835  Absolutely Havennew. My physics teacher in particular was a father figure to many. An ex-RAF officer from the late 1940s / early 1950s. He took no messing but also supported and directed us "clueless teenagers" in our behavior & attitudes. Sure it didn't work with everyone, but I served 30 years in the fire service, and others went on to succesful careers in the forces & other sectors, and I personally put a lot of my grounding down to him. Unfortunately the divisive globalist powers that be are putting "wimmin" into the ascendancy especially in education.... in my view its just another thread of the imbalance thats contributing to the rapid decline in society.
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  4.  @adamnowakowski837  Such a pity that Polish national pride prevents them from ever correctly passing credit for a full 30% of 303 Sqd's confirmed kill tally to the single pilot that achieved them..... that is the CZECHOSLOVAKIAN pilot Josef František. P.S thank you to Kurt for his service. Much respect.
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  5. If the globalist quislings in Westminster had been in power in 1940, they would have ordered the Royal Navy to sail to the German occupied channel ports and tow the wehrmacht over and safely into Dover harbour, then provided free board and lodgings at our expense.
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  6. Complete bollocks. 1947 UK Polish Resettlement act, read it and understand what devious rubbish you're posting.
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  7. Bollocks. Thank the British for organising the defence of India from the encroaching Japanese and their "Greater Asian Co-prosperity Sphere". You think the Japs would have treated you as well as the British? Ask the descendents of the various Chinese cities that were raped, looted and burned by the IJA how they feel about Japan. Also remember to thank us for providing your nation with a working civil service & railway network (that was SO good its almost all still in use today) and also remember to thank the British in re-routing allied shipping to alleviate the Bengal famine.
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  8. What relevance does that have to this video?
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  9.  @havennewbowtow8835  And neither will I, I hope..... It's nice to know there are still others around who know whats going on. All the best Havennew, Have a good one.
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  10. There were no airworthy DB601 powered Bf109s in existence, so what do you do? Not make the film?
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  11.  @TOFKAS01  The Poles who ended up in the hands of Soviet authorities understandably but most importantly voluntarily CHOSE to return to their homeland. The vast majority of Polish ex-service personnel who had served with the British armed forces during WW2 elected to stay in the west, as they were entitled to after Britain had given the now stateless Poles a new national home by bestowing FULL UK citizenship and residency rights to them. In fact Britain was the first allied country to pass legislation to give brave Poles a new national home in 1947, France followed suit in 1948 and the US was shamed into doing so in 1949.
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  12. Thank God for their service, and also thank you for yours as well Carole. All the best.
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  13.  @patrickmoore620  Thank you for drawing my attention back to this thread. YT kindly never informed me of the ongoing conversation, hence my lack of response. Before I continue I'll clearly state it is NOT my intention to denigrate or insult Polish resolve during WW2, but merely to counteract the nonsense modern inflation of Polish achievements to try to demean the efforts of other (and not just British) nations. For all the Polish fanboys gushing nonsense in these threads, here are the figures you need to know about Poles in the battle of Britain before you start imagining them as some sort of Polish superpilots. Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. Top RAF Fighter Command "kill tallies" during the battle of Britain. Flt Lt Eric Stanley Lock (English) - 21.5 confirmed kills. Sgt James Harry Lacey (English) - 18 confirmed kills. Flt Lt Archie Ashmore McKellar (Scottish) - 17.5 confirmed kills. Sgt Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed kills. Pilot Off Colin Falkland Gray (New Zealand) - 15.5 confirmed kills. Flt Lt Witold Urbanowicz (Poland) - 15 confirmed kills. Nuff said.
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  14. And yet you're still here watching? Pity you didn't get your wallet out to retool a few factories to construct some brand new Bf 109s and He 111s.
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  15. Footage taken from the 1969 film "battle of Britain". Most documentaries on the subject use footage from that. You'd best not watch any more.
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  16. Oh it's "Andrew the naughty little troll" again. The 58.5 confimed Polish kills certainly contributed to the total of 1733 luftwaffe aircraft lost to "enemy action" between July 10th and 31st October 1940, and we continue to honour and pay tribute to their contribution to the victory over totalitarianism.
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  17. Its also a pity that Polish pride prevents them from passing due credit to the individual pilot who scored a full 30% of 303 Sqd's total kill tally.... The CZECHOSLOVAKIAN pilot Josef František.
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  18.  @helloScuffed  I never said there wasn't. I just correctly stated that there is no record of black pilots flying during the battle. If there were any recorded taking part, I would freely acknowledge it. But there wasn't. Britain was in the VAST majority a white country then, and Fighter Command was 80% British born. I just like to keep the record straight, and free from modern revisionist twisting.
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  19. The battle of Britain was a mostly British glory? Whats the problem with that?
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  20. The German fighters shown in the video are not original German produced Me109 fighters, but Spanish post war licence built copies, Ironically powered by Rolls Royce Merlins.
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  21. MORE complete BS..... Nine.... just NINE US citizens amongst the 2945 fighter pilots who served in Fighter Command during the battle od Britain. That comprises just 0.305603% of Fighter Command's pilot establishment. Does 0.305603% count as a "good percentage". Face it yank boy, the US were happy profiteering isolationists while the UK was fighting for its life.... Don't try to excuse your cowardice now.
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  22. He'd been an imperial German air ace in the first world war, which judging by the life expectancy of WW1 fighter pilots, conclusively discounts him from cowardice. Militarily and managerially inept maybe, but a coward? NO.
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  23. "We" don't let them in.... The globalist financed puppets who've fully infected Westminster do as their corporate financiers tell them to do and THEY let them in.
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  24.  @nickdanger3802  Where did the Luftwaffe's fuel come from? How bout the Aluminium for its airframes, and the steel in its weapons?
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  25. Bit like Germany then... of course they took on the world alone.. (We'll forget about the Italians, Japanese, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Dutch, Danes, Belgians, Vichy French, Spanish, Yugoslavs, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and even Russians who took part as their "supporting cast").
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  26. So what? NO particular squadron was highlighted at ALL !!!Why does 303 need mentioning in particular, it was just one of SIXTY-FOUR squadrons of RAF Fighter Command at the time.
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  27. Complete BS.
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  28. Don't EVER be fooled that "diveristy" is the goal the globalists want. The truth is they want the exact OPPOSITE. "Homogenization" is their aim.... mix the races, and over time let the unaware masses create a mocca coloured one world population.... no national identities... all the same. ANTI diversity.
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  29.  @johnbrewer8954  But those kills weren't attributed to "any squadron", they were credited to 303 Sqd's kill tally. All I'm saying is that modern day Poles demand "national recognition" for their part in the war effort, whilst simultaneously quietly hiding the contribution of a Czech to THEIR success in the war. The very definition of a double standard.
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  30. Struan Rodger, as stated in the final credits, though I thought it was Martin Jarvis.
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  31. Says who?
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  32. Lucky for the world, we saved them from nazism at a time when the US & USSR were only too happy to be doing business with them.
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  33. The later Buchons were fitted with RR Merlins and Griffins.
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  34. Don't be disheartened !!! Be positive !!! Take the bull by the horns, take affirmative action !!! YOU go and correct that omission, YOU go and find the identity of a coloured pilot who flew in the battle of Britain, and report back to us so we can honour him. I won't hold my breath though as I suspect it means truly nothing to you in reality.
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  35.  @nickdanger3802  Rest assured Nick, The US finished WW2 countless BILLIONS better off then when they started it. Then when they'd helped bankrupt the British empire (as was their desire), and realised we were potentially gonna flip to the left with the rest of Europe, they then had to bail us out with the Marshall plan, or watch as large parts of the world map turned communist red.
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  36. Or indeed the rest of Britain. Do you not realise that the map covers the area that that particular control room covers? Other control rooms covered other areas of the country.
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  37. A simple bit of online research will show you that the "Bf109s" in the film are actually Hispano Aviación HA-1112 "Buchons". Spanish licence built 109s. The "He111s" are also Spanish licence built, they are Casa 2.111s, both of which in the film are fitted with RR Merlins.
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  38. I know... so many globalist agitators amongst our number.
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  39. No, it is because the pseudo-democratic globalist directed body that now passes for the "UK Govt" despises and disowns anything that shows the United Kingdom in an honourable light.
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  40. All part of the team.
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  41. It's a love/HATE relationship between the two.... almost as much "history" as the middle east.
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  42.  @petercrane2065  Well his words took place at the end of the English civil war... will it take the same now to rid ourselves of the globalist financed puppets who occupy Westminster, and run the country for their paymaster's benefits rather that those of the nation's electorate. Though there is more that a few cells of my mind that think the cadaverous worms who are fixed on toppling western society are also intent on starting civil disorder as a prelude to mobilising the army and completing our transformation into a totalitarian state.
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  43. It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government. Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do. I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place. Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! Oliver Cromwell - 20 April 1653, London, England Who will take his place now?
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  44. They did.... for reconnaisance or weather reporting.
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  45.  @nickdanger3802  If Standard Oil had not sold its octane boosting technology to the Soviets and Germans, then it would have been a level playing field anyway. The US simply sold whatever it could to whoever was prepared to pay, choosing to profiteer while other democracies were fighting for their very existence.
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  46. In other words they tried to bluster Britain into a negotiated peace, and we called their bluff.
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  47. Utter nonsense kid. If it wasn't for the UK ALONE then Poland would STILL have swastikas flying over its capital and death camps operating on its soil.
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  48.  @nickdanger3802  Thank you for the evidence supporting the US's profiteering.
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  49. How tiresome.
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  50.  @bubiruski8067  How much extra money would they have wasted re-tooling a factory to built DB601s simply to satisfy your tastes 60 years later? It seems you're not as bothered that the "heinkels" are actually Casa 2.111s.
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  51. My family lived just outside of Liverpool city centre during WW2. My mother (aged 14 in 1939) remained in the city. By 1941 she was making tea for firewatchers on the roof of Lewis's dept store during the blitz, and by 1943 was working in a small engineering factory in the city centre assembling 3" rockets for the RAF ground attack aircraft. What a generation they were.
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  52. Bollocks... Yet ANOTHER clueless redneck.
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  53.  @brucebartup6161  "Womden"? what's one of those? As for mixed gender teaching staff, we had probably around 90% male teaching staff, but the 10% female staff were not clueless types who these days want to be your "BFF", but more the fearsome Mrs Trunchball stereo type. On the occasions where we had student teachers come in, any weakness was ruthlessly seized upon by the "rascal element", and chaos would ensue, whereupon a more senior teacher from an adjoining classroom would quickly enter and calm would be restored without violence or fuss, but simply by their fearsome reputation. But as I said earlier there were enough of those "tough teachers" that were ready to guide and support you if you were prepared to work along with them.
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  54.  @mazury450  I only need refer as far as the RAF's own records.... you keep on reading your BS "claimed" totals. 303 Scored 58.5 CONFIRMED kills, though they did indeed CLAIM 127. BIG difference.
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  55.  @mazury450  And to further reduce your ignoarnce, while celebrating the bravery, skill and success of Polish "Kościuszko" 303 sqd, the top scoring RAF squadron of the battle of Britain, also remember the other nationalities who flew as part of the squadron during the battle and who contributed SO much to its success. Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. We in the UK remember ALL the pilots (and NOT just the Polish ones).
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  56. Rolls Royce Merlin engine powered Hispano HA1112 Buchons. Spanish licence built Bf-109s, used in place of DB601 powered Bf-109Es, because there were no airworthy Bf-109Es left to use in the film "The battle of Britain", which is where a lot of the footage from this documentary came from. The Heinkels used in the film were also Spanish built CASA 2.111s as no airworthy He-111s were left either.
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  57.  @helloScuffed  Yes, the Poles fought well, they should have done, all the "average" Polish pilots had already been killed or captured over the previous year, so only the most skillful and resourceful Poles had filtered through to the UK. They were not some genetically bred "super pilots", they had simply had much more combat experience than the vast majority of British pilots at the time of the battle. Check out kill tallies at wars end, you'll see an even distribution amongst the nations. Plus dont forget the majority of the highest scorers during the battle were British, its only to be expected, we comprised 80% of Fighter Command.. "303 shot down 126 aircraft". You missed out 1 important word there "claimed". Do some research about the battle, 303's "confirmed" kill tally was 58.5 kills, of which 17 were by the man you mentioned, the Czech "lone wolf" pilot Josef František. I'm not suggesting that the Poles were lying, ALL squadrons had inflated kill tallies, due to confusion in combat, multiple claims on the same kill etc. And I freely acknowledge that even when the "confirmed squadron tally" scorecard is viewed, 303 Sqd still came out on top. I understand that the Poles are rightfully proud of their fighting prowess and determination (just as I am obviously proud of us Brits), I don't hide or deny the Poles contribution, indeed EVERY year at the remembrance day parades I've attended I see honours and tributes to the Poles specifically (but few if any made to the other nationalities), I just hate to see the facts distorted, to benefit one nation at another expense. Keep it real madet, keep it real.
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  58. Aye, Stan Boardman still going strong.
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  59.  @mazury450  On this occasion Mareczek, my comment is indeed off the mark. I've responded to your disingenuous posts on a few other threads, and omitted on this occasion to check the title of the particular video. Please do direct me to a reputable source which verifies the 200 kills. Unfortunately in the current "Brit hating" revisionist period we're being forced into, even the Imperial War Museum website now quotes incorrect information and passes it off as "official", vis-à-vis 303 squadron claiming 126 kills, but the IWM omits to use the ALL important word "claimed", and leaves the uninformed reader to believe it means "confirmed", when the post war RAF verification process credited 303 squadron with 58.5 CONFIRMED kills.
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  60. The early scenes of the film "the battle of Britain" were apparently filmed in southern Spain. Hence the very suntanned "French" peasants.
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  61. A "yard" in the UK is a small brick walled piece of concrete where you keep your bins and chain your bike up (and indeed not so many years back also usually contained an outside toilet in a brick hut). A garden will contain a selection of shrubs / flowers / weeds, with maybe a tree and a shed.
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  62. VERY few allies at this point of the war. Fighter Command in 1940 was +80% British and the British Army that defended our shores in 1940 was +90% British.
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  63. "Betrayal OF its politicians"? I assume you meant to type "betrayal BY its politicians".
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  64. Liebe und Freundschaft von den einfachen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt zu den einfachen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt... lasst uns die globalistischen Tyrannen, die Tod und Zerstörung verbreiten, loswerden und stattdessen in Frieden leben.
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  65. Your post shows the word "meshersmitt" when the word "Messerschmitt" was intended. Get your spelling right !!!
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  66.  @TOFKAS01  Name me ANY other empire throughout the WHOLE of human history, that after its decline & fall managed to maintain a VOLUNTARY "commonwealth" with its former colonies, such was the two way, symbiotic nature of the British Empire's relations within its component parts. Or indeed ANY other empire in the whole of human history that when it was at the very ZENITH of its might and power unilaterally decided to outlaw human slavery? I won't hold my breath waiting for an intelligent answer from you.
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  67.  @TOFKAS01  Hahahaha, what UTTER nonsense. But thanks for confirming that you know completely NOTHING about 20th century history. The "French", Hahahaha I suggest you read some more about post WW2 dealings between the French govt and French Indo-China and Algeria, where the French savagely put down nationalist uprisings. It's creation of the postwar "French Union" which was simply rebranded imperialism and was quickly rejected by its colonies, with a fair amount of bloodshed, to be replaced with a voluntary version named the "French Communite" which folded due to the colonies all voting with their feet and leaving immediately. (With the French Govt dropping all mention of the "French Communite" from its constitution in 1990). As for your creation of the imaginary "Dutch commonwealth" shows that you're simply another YT delusional, probably directed by reading nonsense such as that spewed by the "Socialist Worker" and other "esteemed" left wing BS publications.
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  68.  @TOFKAS01  Hahahaa..... you mean the "French Union"... that most of their former colonies IMMEDIATELY walked out of once it was announced, and the same "French Union" that was finally quiety dropped from the French constitution in 1996? Oh THAT "better than the Brits commonwealth"? Hahahahah what a utter nonce you are.
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  69. Top 10 scoring RAF Fighter Command Sdqs during the battle of Britain. 1st - 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqd (Spitfire) - 57½ confirmed kills. 2nd - 609 (West Riding) Sqd (Spitfire) - 51½ confirmed kills. 3rd - 303 (Kościuszko) Sqd (Hurricane) - 45 confirmed kills. 4th - 41 Sqd (Spitifre) - 44¾ confirmed kills. 5th - 501 (County of Gloucester) Sqd (Hurricane) - 40½ confirmed kills. 6th - 92 (East India) Sqd (Spitfire) - 40.2 confirmed kills. 7th - 602 (City of Glasgow) Sqd (Spitfire) - 36 confirmed kills. 7th - 54 Sqd (Spitfire) - 36 confirmed kills. 9th - 43 (The Fighting Cocks) Sqd (Hurricane) - 35.2 confirmed kills. 10th- 601 (County of London) Sqd (Hurricane) - 35 confirmed kills. Top 6 RAF Fighter Command Sqd (Me-109 kills) 1st - 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqd (Spitfire) - 47 confirmed kills. 2nd - 41 Sqd (Spitifre) - 34 confirmed kills. 3rd - 501 (County of Gloucester) Sqd (Hurricane) - 30½ confirmed kills. 4th - 303 (Kościuszko) Sqd (Hurricane) - 30 confirmed kills. 5th - 54 Sqd (Spitfire) - 28 confirmed kills. 6th - 610 (County of Chester) Sqd (Spitfire) - 24 confirmed kills. Produced from the most comprehensive research ever conducted of RAF records, Luftwaffe quartermaster-general loss returns, and by the records of the location of aircraft crashed on land, carried out by John Alcorn and Dr Alfred Price in 1999-2000.
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  70. Tonight..... From Norwich.....it's the quiz of the WEEK !!!!
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  71.  @spikenomoon  Sorry the only "junk" in this discussion is your replies. 303 squadron were CREDITED with 58.5 kills during the battle.... save your "170 German planes shot down" nonsense for the other idiots like yourself.
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  72. Had NOTHING to do with the battle of Britain. I think I'll go and make Sopwith Camel comments on US air war in the pacific videos.
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  73. Think you'll find the world is a MUCH better place because of it.
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  74. I already have deleted it, with the use of an adblocker. BLISS !!!!
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  75.  @elizabethnicoll  The most important thing to do Elizabeth is to attempt to "deprogram" young people from the globalist BS that they're now brainwashed with in UK schools.
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  76. "Intensive hairstyles"??? Goddamn autocorrect !!!
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  77. Struan Rodger.
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  78.  @Keithbarber  Oh definitely, I wasn't suggesting it wasn't worth shooting down for the very reason you give.... "poke the jerries eyes out" so to speak. It was a regular early morning occurance that lone aircraft would be detected on radar or reported by the ROC, and a single eager pilot or maybe a section of 3 fighters would be scrambled to intercept, but as often as not according to many pilots accounts I've read the single German aircraft would not be found, or if it was located it would try to evade in cloud.
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  79. Was it? At the start of WW2 all anti-aircraft fire was guided by the Mk1 eyeball, with fuses set by hand. within a couple of years radar was integrated for use as fire control, and for the allies the VT fuse made fuse setting a thing off the past. The heavy toll of allied bombers was taken by a combination of AA and fighters. I'd suggest the majority was downed by fighters. If you were to see the AA defence of allied ships in the Pacific, and the belt of AA guns across Kent that took down a large number of V1's in 1944, I think you'd question your assertion above.
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  80. Not forgetting "Reverse Lend-Lease" where the British supplied the US with 30% of the material that the US supplied to Britain !!!
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  81. Put your hand in your pocket and go retool a factory to make genuine 80 year old Me190Es then !!!!
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  82. Hardly ANY individual RAF squadrons are named... your point is?
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  83. "Spanish Engines"? Try British Rolls Royce Merlins, that had ironically powered the 109's nemesis the Spitfires and Hurricanes.
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  84.  @davidscarupa1429  Sorry to have to correct you a second time, but the Buchons were not "got from Germany", they were licence buit in Spain, and originally intended to be fitted with Daimler Benz DB 605A engines supplied by the Germans, though as it turned out this never happened, and so the first batch of Buchons were fitted with Hispano-Suiza HS 89-12Z engines. The final mark of Buchon (The HA-1112-M1L), some of which were supplied to the production company that made the film "The battle of Britain", were fitted with a 1,600 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 engine and Rotol propeller, both purchased as surplus from the UK. I'm glad I was able to clear that misunderstanding up for you.
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  85.  @davidscarupa1429  P.S "Bigfoot" failed his private pilots assessment and so was only used for marshalling the aircraft on the ground during filming.
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  86. The luftwaffe had been attacking RAF Fighter Command sector airfields such as RAF Northolt, Kenley, Hornchurch and Biggin Hill which were ALL within the boundary of "Greater London" since mid July 1940. Those attacks had ALREADY caused HUNDREDS of deaths and injuries of innocent civilians by way of "collateral damage". The Luftwaffe's "accidental bombing" of south London that is often given as the reason for the RAF bombing of military targets in Berlin on the night of Aug 22/23 1940 (which also incurred a small number of innocent civilian deaths by way of "collateral damage") was in reality immaterial and merely a convenient narrative.
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  87. Who by? You? Name me another RAF fighter command squadron during the battle without looking it up? 303 is ALL you ever hear about !!! Don't be a pre-programmed parrot drone ALL your life.
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  88. How could you be reading comments while watching the video?
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  89. The Me 109E (Emil) did not have a cannon firing through the hub. It did have the capability to have one fitted and originally it was trialled with one fitted but there were severe problems of the cannon overheating as it was positioned between 2 banks of 6 very hot cylinders. The problems were only solved satisfactorily in time for the ME 109F (Friedrich).
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  90.  @TOFKAS01  The "glory" was an instrinsic part of its value. The UK was left alone, isolated in Europe against the world's then most potent military force. It's people needed to know they could survive and continue, so morale was vital.
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  91. Don't watch them then, Mr entitled.
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  92.  @nicholassaville1933  Ha!!! As if the USSR had nothing to do with it. The US sat watching and profitting, ensuring that the British empire bankrupted itself before allowing itself to get dragged in. Looks like you've had your 80 years in the sun, and China is now doing the same to you. At least the British empire lasted a few centuries.
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  93. It still continues to impress younger viewers today !!!
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  94.  @adamnowakowski837  Re-read my post... I clearly say František scored 30% of 303 Sqd's kill tally. 303's CLAIMED kill tally was 126 aircraft, this was reduced (along with that of ALL RAF fighter squadrons "claimed" tallies after post war research) to 57.5 CONFIRMED kills, making them the top scoring squadron in Fighter command, pipping 603 sqd's 56.5 kills. That means that František's 17 confirmed kills during the battle (all scored in Sept 1940) comprised 29.57% of 303's total confirmed kill tally.
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  95. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere DOWDING.
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  96. View on a PC and install an adblocker.... uninterrupted viewing pleasure.
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  97. Millions of Indians were only too happy to serve in the British army.... the same British army that saved India from being absorbed into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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  98.  @ROTHSTEIN01  Weak AF.... the world's largest empire.... yeah unbeaten in 2 world wars BEFORE the Americans were dragged into them against their will.
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  99. So teary that you misquoted. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
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  100. Not Spitfires, but Spanish airforce Hispano Aviación HA-1112 Buchons.
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  101. Put your hand in your pocket and go retool a factory to make genuine 80 year old Me190Es then !!!!
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  102. Do you believe that the media uses the correct location in their productions? Never heard of "Spaghetti westerns"? Aww... such innocence.
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  103. By his superiors AND peers.
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