stood more than a hundred years before and looked across the english channel to the one fighting obstacles that stood between him and world domination and beyond a little island smaller than the state of wyoming crushed that little island and its stubborn people and the way was open for world conquest the fall of austria czechoslovakia poland event the battle of  six weeks to determine the history of a thousand years the thing was foolproof see for yourselves how simple the whole operation was to be looked in plan for invasion of the phase one to override the coastline with time bombers conquer britain forced the surrender of the british fleet and with the combines the power of germany britain italy france and japan he could control with these and tell us  i mean with the weapons these had been left behind on the roads of france tanks guns motorized equipment all abandoned to save the one price in all of britain there was not enough equipment for one modern division only one tank for every thousand square miles of territory only one machine gun for every fifteen hundred yards  to put up the ferry the planes carry the dispatch others work men and women alike for something that happened here the germans could never understand in a democracy it is not the government that makes school it is the people for the next week the germans attack the coast cities from the thames river  are paid off with one hundred eighty more planes ten days of the battle of britain during lunch twenty six major attacks against command of the air and lost six hundred ninety seven aircraft the british lost one hundred fifty three and sixty british pilots bailed  the long range german guns were getting hot from fro ing chills across the  flourish sure the germans mr churchill tells his people that england will win but i tell you that victory will be long to germany were bombers to send in a way though the december will protect the fighters above at high altitude fighters on both sides fighters in the front and in the rear fighters weaving in and out of the bomber formation the nazis were blind with read the german mind has never understood why free people fight on against overwhelming odds hitler no knew he was appear in every weapon except the weapon of spirit so  the battle of london germans broke through the charge of hurricanes in the fires that went out to me norm was only pretense of aiming at military objectives this was just average destruction and underneath the wall in the air the war of the man in the street  he learned to exist with very little food he forgot what it meant to have a night's sleep spending most of his time on the ground in the damp da the british with a challenge by throwing in everything they had two hundred individual dogfights took place within the first thirty minutes  which the center of the city pretty soon on our last stop the frantic nazis had to pull a new one they did on october sixth changed the night attack maybe that way they could avoid those deadly spitfires and hurricanes maybe that way they could crush the stubborn british spirit never f wasn't much help at night this was just germans bombs against british homes were destroyed by incendiary business blasts world place and still the people of london took night after night they brought underground morning after morning one of themselves out of the what about the one that came down about two enemy must be destroyed that the day was coming when they would strike back and how they would strike back christmas nineteen forty crisp's season of peace on earth goodwill toward men was the ironic quiet before hector's great burst of rage against a people who couldn't be lash millions of fire bombs rained down on the great city of london in the midst of all the fire and destruction vital water mains were shattered water pressure was almost entirely cut off heroes of the night were men of the london fire brigade who stretched temporary hose lines out to the center of the thames river struggling through mud and slides of enough is a carefully fixed tonight on which the thames river at one of the lowest ebb tides on record and why london ferns above them the people of the city held on to an up and from those up they knew this was the people's war and they were the people may die but it can't be the battle of britain was won but not by hitler or had lost the battle it lost two thousand three hundred seventy five german planes and their crews other first time it was the germans who is the bitter dirt of defeat gone with the legend of their and seriously wounded fifty thousand more but not one single nazi soldier set foot on british s hitler couldn't stop and in our next film we will show how he had to turn to the east again why did the nazis lose the battle of britain first because the regimented people met an equally determine free people and the free people made them quit cold the british did more than save their country they won for the world a year of precious time it was not only for the people of britain but for the people of the world that winston churchill spoke when he said