Gladiators Of WWII - RAF Fighter Command

This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" tells of the story of RAF Fighter Commandof during WW2 through its crucial role at Dunkirk and at the battle of Britain in the skies over Suthern England in the summer of 1940 when RAF pilots duelled with the German Luftwaffe. Winston Churchill called it Britains finest hour. Heavily outnumbered, Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires confronted Junkers Ju87 Stuka divebombers, Messerschmitt Me109 fighters over the English coast in one of the most crucial battles of WW2. To lose the battle would have meant Nazi invasion of the British Isles. Led by Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, they successfully defended Britain against the Luftwaffe, who were superior in both numbers and pilot experience. Including former pilots testimonies, archive materials (footage partly in color). "Naver in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". (Winston Churchill).