CHAPTER 1 - The Battle of Britain

• starts with Hitler in Paris, June 1940
• maps-show series of Hitler's conquests across Ep
• German army prepares
• narrator voice changes, "and what about the people of Britain?"
• "In a democracy, the people make war, not the government"
• Churchill: "we shall never surrender"
• "This was Britain in its darkest hour"
• "August 8, 1940 - The Battle for Britain is on"
• German plan - destroy British air force as it came up to fight the Luftwaffe

CHAPTER 2 - Take Off

• "German planes waited overhead for the defending planes of the RAF to appear. They didn't have long to wait. The RAF came, facing odds of 6, 8, 10 to 1, shouting the old hunting cry, Tally-ho!"
• In first 4 days, RAF knocked out 142 German planes
• map - port towns battered (audio glitch)
• Goring switched attack to fighter airfields
• German attack plan stalled because RAF still in the air
• "Aug 30, 1940" - Hitler sent bombers
• Brits had improved listening posts
• map - "Dover area became known as Hell's Corner"
• But the British "workers kept on working" and were "smashing the whole Nazi plan of world conquest"
• Aug. 24-Sept. 5 - 35 major attacks launched
• Hitler "superior in every weapon except the weapon of spirit"
• next target, London, to crush the spirit
• British sent children out the city, tightened defenses, moved into bomb shelters, "blacked out their city and carried on"
• Sept 7 - came "the first blow to crush their city" - 375 German planes
• people move into bomb shelter
• "This was just savage destruction"

CHAPTER 3 - Brits Seek Shelter

• "Bombs fell alike on the homes of the East End poor and Mayfair rich."
• "For 28 days the Nazis were to drop everything in the book on the city of London."
• "Underneath the war in the air the war of the man in the street went on" - "learned to exist with little food, sleep, underground in the damp and cold - "This was life in the Blitz"
• Sept 15 - Goring sent Luftwaffe in one of its greatest attacks - 500 planes
• "The British met the challenge by throwing in everything they had. An historic 3-dimensional battle took place, inside an area 60 miles long, 38 broad, 5 to 6 miles high. 200 individual dogfights took place within the first 30 minutes of the raid.

CHAPTER 4 - Look Out

• "Some of the German bombers broke through London's defenses and reached the center of the city."
• "In the 28 days of terror from Sept 7 to Oct. 5, the Nazi dropped 50 million lbs on the city" including Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, but Germans lost over 900 planes
• Oct. 6 - Germans switched to night bombing, "just German bombs against British guts"
• British pilots get orders to counterattack the submarine pens at Bremen, using "what few bombers they could get together"
• big bomb with word "adolf" dropped on sub pens
• "Here was the RAF giving it back"
• Nov 14 - "all available German night bombers were put in the air" and a million lbs of bombs were dropped on Coventry "smashed flat as Rotterdam or Warsaw"
• The British people went back to work and prepared to strike back
• "Christmas 1940" - the quiet before "Hitler's great burst of raids against a people who couldn't be licked" as "millions of firebombs rained down on the great city of London. In a matter of minutes, the greatest fire in recorded history"
• but this was a "People's War" that "couldn't be licked" or defeated
• Hitler had lost the battle and "gone was the legend of their invincibility"
• "For a solid year, the Nazis struck Britain with all their might. They leveled thousands upon thousands of homes and damaged millions of others. They killed more than 40,000 men women and children and seriously wounded more than 50,000 more. But not one single Nazi soldier set foot on British soil."
• Why Hitler lost? 1st, a People's War; 2nd, the RAF
• "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
• Marshall quote - utter defeat
• V- sign ends the film