Allow me to add my own congratulations for an outstanding production. A compelling presentation of the early months of the second world war, personalized by meticulous and no doubt challenging research. Thank you for sharing your remarkable talent once again.
Can I just say as a former Royal Air Force Fast Jet Fighter I watched this production and can only tell you how deeply moved I am at the bravery and dedication of the Aircrews and Service personnel during that period, the loss of life was relentless and in lots of cases avoidable, I owe my freedom to the fantastic dedication of our Armed Forces, and am deeply humbled by their sacrifices, Secondly I gratitude and respect goes to the producers of this program, as a Former member of the Royal Air Force I thank you for a wonderful,respectful production may you continue to showcase our wonderful History...Deep Respect to you, and Finally thank all of you guys who gave your all.bless you
This excellent production resonated with me. My father, then a 19 year old South African Air Force pilot, was seconded to 45 Squadron RAF flying Blenheims in North Africa from October 1941 to January 1942. He had a busy war as recounted in Wing Commander Jefford's book, "The Flying Camels - The History of No.45 Sqn, RAF". I wish my father was still alive to see and comment on this production. I think he would have been very impressed.
I think you've got the most honourable take on telling the moving and gripping story put into the correct context of the true cost of war and the unsung hero's who knowing the odds were strongly stacked against them did their jobs to their upmost anyway. Excellent!
What a fine production man. Here’s to you! Excellent rare footage and blended well with modest and pertinent commentary. Many thanks and most enjoyable.
Another great production from Phillip Day & team. The time invested and meticulous attention to detail create a really compelling watch. Thoroughly recommended.
Again this is another masterpiece of bringing the 1940s to light and the Historic period is narrated so well when the British People stood alone. outstanding thank you Philip. Regards Pete.
12:18 We stood alone only among the countries of Europe please don't forget the massive sacrifices made by our Empire and Dominions .... Canada had thousands of soldiers here ready for going to France when it fell, they at one point were what stood between us and the Germans invasion until our army rearmed and regrouped... Or the sacrifices made by the thousands who fled here from occupied Europe to fight and die alongside us.
I have only recently come across this channel, and I am hugely impressed by its content. Wonderful commentary by Phillip Day, who was previously unknown to me, but he makes me feel that I personally know all these brave people. Thanks a million times to all of them that we remain free today and I have shed a few tears when they have lost their lives.
A very moving account of extreme bravery and heroism from men and women just like us who found themselves overtaken by one of the most evil chapters in modern history. The faces of those rescued from Dunkirk moved me to tears. May we be eternally thankful for those that served & the sacrifice of those that never made it back. Thank you for this excellent documentary.
I am a Royal Air Force Veteran from the 60s/70s, and proud to have served to say thank you, my family lived in Kent below doodlebug alley….. thanking “The Few”
absolutley brilliant story !! and so well narrated , i could watch your content for hours Philip , thank you , thank you , and a truley sad story , and endured by so many other families too
stephenarnoldarc There was no mention,that I could see, of the Blenheim Mark 2, the long nose version. My father was a pilot in Coastal Command & said the Mark 2 was a superior aircraft than the older short nose version. Dad was crazy about flying before World War II & gained his pilots license, privately, in 1936 (I still have his license). He flew Tiger Moths, which he always claimed was the finest aircraft he ever flew - he had stories about it. In order to continue flying, as it was more than he could afford privately, he joined the Civil Air Guard (I have his forage cap & badge somewhere), on the understanding that he would be immediately called up in the event of war. He was retrained as a pilot on Blenheims. Later in the war he was flying Beaufighters. He was stationed at Scarpa Flow, in the Orkney Isles, flying over the North Sea & Norway (He always said that in the middle of winter over the North Sea he would pray that he didn't have engine failure!). For a while he was stationed in Northern Ireland, flying convoy escort - he once escorted Winston Churchill on one of his meetings with Roosevelt & Stalin. Then, I believe, he was stationed at Brize Norton. I still have group photos of the squadron & pilots. He survived the war, practised as an architect & died in 2005, aged 89.
Thank you Philip Day, for this wonderful and very moving documentary. Since my childhood in the North East of England, 70+ years ago, I have read and watched everything available on the Royal Air Force and the pilots who fought. Of course one gleans masses of information but often in a somewhat depersonalised way. What you have created here though is rather different, bringing the personal stories of so many pilots and other crew and their families and loved ones, to the fore in a way rarely seen. The emotional effect of that is powerful! I can feel for Manwaring as a civilian pilot myself for many years, being taken off Spitfires to fly the rather bumbling and slow Blenheim which is precisely the opposite of the well known saying "If it looks right it will fly right!"
G'day to you, Thank you for this Great piece of work, those poor young Men didnt have much of a chance being sent out in obsolete Aircraft, The Big Brass of the RAF sounded a lot like the Army counterparts in WW1, if only the Beaufighters were around at the time, I had 2 Uncles and 1 Aunt in the RAF in WW2! Armadale West Aust.
This was very good I actually woke up with it playing it was 1/2 way through so I finished watching and then I watched again from the beginning. This is so well done that I am looking forward to watching more like this. Merry Christmas n' Cheers
A meticulous and compelling production making a sobering narrative that captures the humanity of those depicted as well as the history- a film of great distinction. On a personal level, I have a friend whose father was a Blenheim navigator who was shot down in the Abyssinian campaign in 1940. He says apart from the pilot the other crew had virtually no chance of escaping this aircraft type. His father was posted as missing and after the allotted time, declared dead. His mother received a widow's pension and eventually the Red Cross discovered he had survived to become a prisoner of the Italians. My friend said that after this official announcement his mother was contacted and told she must refund the pension monies! I also knew a rather testy former Blenheim pilot who drank in our local called Charlie. When the Blenheim crashed at Denham airfield in 1987 he stated plainly that "he knew that was going to happen" but it was in fact down to pilot error and doing the "touch and go" which was not authorised and the pilot's lack of knowledge of the Mercury engines- he flooded them when he needed maximum power. Thankfully, nobody died in that mishap.
This is the first time that I’ve ever heard the Blenheim described as a fighter bomber. Someone was certainly demonstrating a reckless degree of optimism
Wonderful presentation, many thanks. Perhaps a future project could focus on the Fairy Battle's role in France with a sub focus on J C Hayter DFC Bar/MiD?
Excellent video. A mention to the two squadrons of Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm and their pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain and with Costal Command, it would be appreciated
We had a look too. It appears all has been expunged. We found a Gazette entry recording that he resigned his commission in 1941, presumably as a result of the enquiry.
Good work on highlighting coastal command just before the battle of britain. Pilot officer Gane who flew with 248 in A flight have come across in my connections with flying officer A.L.Fowler mentioned in Birds book coastal Dawn. If any relatives of 248 sqn have pics info please contact me. still looking for F.O.Fowlers log book may be in Newzealand.
Imteresting point about not being able to deploy the dinghy. I cant remember the book or author but he described how, having shot down over the sea a number of occasions....and how each time the dinghy floated away because there was no rope attached to it. Evrntually, having reported the issue through official channels with no result he contacted higher authority directly. He received a snotty letter back informing him that his request for ropes to be fitted to dinghys was impossible because it would add to the cost!
Very moving. The Battle of Britain, a valiant effort, overshadowed a suicidal effort by the RAF earlier but I wonder at the recklessness of the senior officer(s) in sending men in such appalling weather conditions at the end of their physical stamina to sacrifice their lives with nothing gained. It was the British RAF fighter commander in chief who saved Britain and restricted movement of such lunatic relief missions to France and who was ousted right after the completion of this valiant and superbly organised effort considering the use of the radar in defending Britain. In retrospect Hitler should have been accommodated by the British even as he stood at Dunkirk (British empire intact and same Anglo Saxon background, the German royal family) and made peace offers. Europe was sacrificed to foreign overseas elements and what a price was paid even by Britain as it stands now.
I'll presume you're unintentionally ignorant. Hitler made peace offerings. He wasn't accommodated because you don't cow-tow to murderous dictators. The British PM who did so demonstrated precisely why such things shouldn't be granted. The British paid the price of their Empire ( The price exacted by the US in exchange for their assistance in arms, equipment and men) as well as the many prices they paid in advance ( in technological terms). However all that was, morally at least, a price worth paying. America paid in blood and it's inarguable that that price didn't tip the balance. Irrelevant of it's % capita loss being less compared to the Brits. Europe has been sold away much quicker and to far more dangerous enemy in the last 30 years than it ever faced in the 30-40s
RAF Bomber Command's casualties in training alone were 10% Would you take a job where you could get killed training - and of course, the final toll was 56%!!
Hi Timothy. Clive wrote 'Before The Few' as an unpublished booklet for the family before he died. When I approached Wiggs's niece about making the film of Wiggs and Zena, she produced Clive's booklet, which has some fascinating information I didn't have time to cover in the film, but which formed the basis of the narrative. I intend to do an outtakes documentary at some point going behind the scenes of this project, when I'll cover a lot of material we couldn't reveal in the films for reasons of time. - Phillip
@ Thank you for your response. Excellent program. The free world owes those exceptional few men and women a debt of gratitude that cannot be repaid. Thank you for sharing your work. P.S V for vengeance is also excellent work.
a excellent documentry and very sad I knew a man who flew in Blenhiems in same periodIt also was interesting to me when he said threy had crashed close to the Fren ch coast but he escaped capture for about mths but later in in a german prison camp where Douglas Bader was imprisoned.It was interesting to me to meet some one who,ed survived a Blehiem crash
The refusal of authorities to recognise serious faults with the Blenheim, choosing to blame the aircrew was reflected in the irresponsible and immature attitude of the MOD and the regular army in the 1980s with the SA80A1 rifle! Nobody was ever called to account!
I am familar with "cannon fodder" for ground troops, what is it called for airmen with outclassed equipment? I think these few 'before the few' would fit that description...
Only one problem with this documentary, no subtitles!.... For us old folk with dodgy hearing, we can hear the commentator when there is no music, but when the music kicks in, it is louder than the talking so much guessing is to be done as to what the narrative is...
@@majorsterling9889 Thanks. Perhaps the settings on the video are set to prevent this. Not being an expert on the subject, but the option for subtitles are not available.. Apart from that, it was a very well made documentary. Much better than those TV docs that assume you have forgotten what was said 30 seconds prior and repeat the same thing over and over for an hour.....
@@majorsterling9889 It is fascinating to see how design and function was still very hit and miss. As you show, the design flaws seem to be careless and lacking in understanding of the need for ergonomics. In hindsight it is easy to see the flaws in aircraft, training and technology. At the time, I'm sure that ideas were 10 a penny and the resources to test out these ideas were scarce. Was it better to send the planes out unreliably or in bad weather or simply do nothing, save your crews from a certain death and live to fight another day. In hindsight, I think the latter approach may have yielded better results...
I had regression done a few years ago i find out why i have a fear of heights and wide open water i was shot down in that war reason i think i was British because i could see the dot on my left wing as i plummeted to the sea.
Allow me to add my own congratulations for an outstanding production. A compelling presentation of the early months of the second world war, personalized by meticulous and no doubt challenging research. Thank you for sharing your remarkable talent once again.
Astonishingly good. Wow! I really feel for the guys who were lumped with outdated machines when war came along.
Can I just say as a former Royal Air Force Fast Jet Fighter I watched this production and can only tell you how deeply moved I am at the bravery and dedication of the Aircrews and Service personnel during that period, the loss of life was relentless and in lots of cases avoidable, I owe my freedom to the fantastic dedication of our Armed Forces, and am deeply humbled by their sacrifices, Secondly I gratitude and respect goes to the producers of this program, as a Former member of the Royal Air Force I thank you for a wonderful,respectful production may you continue to showcase our wonderful History...Deep Respect to you, and Finally thank all of you guys who gave your all.bless you
Excellent programme. Thank you so much for highlighting a hitherto little known story.
Better than any main stream documentaries fantastically put together brilliantly researched thank you
This excellent production resonated with me. My father, then a 19 year old South African Air Force pilot, was seconded to 45 Squadron RAF flying Blenheims in North Africa from October 1941 to January 1942. He had a busy war as recounted in Wing Commander Jefford's book, "The Flying Camels - The History of No.45 Sqn, RAF". I wish my father was still alive to see and comment on this production. I think he would have been very impressed.
I think you've got the most honourable take on telling the moving and gripping story put into the correct context of the true cost of war and the unsung hero's who knowing the odds were strongly stacked against them did their jobs to their upmost anyway.
Excellent!
These men will not be forgotten by me
Extraordinarily well researched and produced film
Thank you
Ox/Bucks
What a fine production man. Here’s to you! Excellent rare footage and blended well with modest and pertinent commentary. Many thanks and most enjoyable.
Your hardwork and knowledge makes your documentaries award winning ! Thx you 🙏
One the best researched and produced videos I have ever seen.
Another outstanding piece Phillip, thoroughly enjoyable and riveting, thank you for your time and considerable effort sir.
Excellent documentary. They will not be forgotten.
Superb production, thank you. These young people need to be remembered and remain an inspiration to solve our modern “problems”
Thank you from New Zealand. We still have missing family lost over Germany never to be FORGOTTEN.
Keeping the story alive, so well done.Much gratitude.
Another great production from Phillip Day & team. The time invested and meticulous attention to detail create a really compelling watch. Thoroughly recommended.
Phillip Day: Writer, documentarian. Thank you for bringing those courageous boys back to life.
Not sure how I stumbled on this but very happy I did - riveting and so well done. Thanks!
Again this is another masterpiece of bringing the 1940s to light and the Historic period is narrated so well when the British People stood alone. outstanding thank you Philip.
Regards Pete.
12:18 We stood alone only among the countries of Europe please don't forget the massive sacrifices made by our Empire and Dominions .... Canada had thousands of soldiers here ready for going to France when it fell, they at one point were what stood between us and the Germans invasion until our army rearmed and regrouped...
Or the sacrifices made by the thousands who fled here from occupied Europe to fight and die alongside us.
Outstanding. I knew nothing about this part of the war, nor how bad the Blenheim was.
Moved to tears. Best production of those brave souls, so trusting.
Amazing. Touching, beautfully crafted and presented. truly remarkable. Thank you.
An excellent literary piece. Respectfully, Greg Lucas.
Outstanding! Thank you very much!
A superb documentary, very touching, lovely well spoken narration, i cannot praise it enough.
What a brilliant documentary ,a real tear jerker, Thank you
I have only recently come across this channel, and I am hugely impressed by its content. Wonderful commentary by Phillip Day, who was previously unknown to me, but he makes me feel that I personally know all these brave people. Thanks a million times to all of them that we remain free today and I have shed a few tears when they have lost their lives.
A very moving account of extreme bravery and heroism from men and women just like us who found themselves overtaken by one of the most evil chapters in modern history. The faces of those rescued from Dunkirk moved me to tears. May we be eternally thankful for those that served & the sacrifice of those that never made it back. Thank you for this excellent documentary.
Outstanding. One of the very best!: About the Best. We won't see their like again.
Absolutely superb work, thank you.
Best documentary ever
I am a Royal Air Force Veteran from the 60s/70s, and proud to have served to say thank you, my family lived in Kent below doodlebug alley….. thanking “The Few”
absolutley brilliant story !! and so well narrated , i could watch your content for hours Philip , thank you , thank you , and a truley sad story , and endured by so many other families too
A absolutely fantastic production that shows what the young men and woman of this once great country gave 😢
Fantastic documentary.
How thankful we all are for thier outstanding bravery
Thank you, so sad, so much sacrifice and courage.
Thank you so much, A wonderful video. many clips i have never seen. God Bless UK and USA.
SGT DOUG, RECON, 1/502, 101ABN, RVN 68-69, LZ SALLY.
Sir, simply outstanding.
Amazingly well done documentary, thank you for you hard work research, and to the many who died preventing us all now talking German
At last, someone who attaches appropriate back ground music !
Wow Wow Wow..What a Nice Heroic True Story..Thank You.
Absolutely loved watching this, RIP to all, These are the things we do need to know all about all so, Greatly Done, Heroes.
An amazing documentary that's over due. The unsung hero's of early coastal
command/ BEF protection duties.
What a fantastic documentary, I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this brilliant and moving story.
Fantastic production. Thank you.
stephenarnoldarc
There was no mention,that I could see, of the Blenheim Mark 2, the long nose version. My father was a pilot in Coastal Command & said the Mark 2 was a superior aircraft than the older short nose version. Dad was crazy about flying before World War II & gained his pilots license, privately, in 1936 (I still have his license). He flew Tiger Moths, which he always claimed was the finest aircraft he ever flew - he had stories about it. In order to continue flying, as it was more than he could afford privately, he joined the Civil Air Guard (I have his forage cap & badge somewhere), on the understanding that he would be immediately called up in the event of war. He was retrained as a pilot on Blenheims. Later in the war he was flying Beaufighters. He was stationed at Scarpa Flow, in the Orkney Isles, flying over the North Sea & Norway (He always said that in the middle of winter over the North Sea he would pray that he didn't have engine failure!). For a while he was stationed in Northern Ireland, flying convoy escort - he once escorted Winston Churchill on one of his meetings with Roosevelt & Stalin. Then, I believe, he was stationed at Brize Norton. I still have group photos of the squadron & pilots. He survived the war, practised as an architect & died in 2005, aged 89.
I learnt so much truly great history lesson clearly powerful on ever bit thankyou thank God for men that did gave all !
That was brilliant well done
thank you.
Thank you Philip Day, for this wonderful and very moving documentary. Since my childhood in the North East of England, 70+ years ago, I have read and watched everything available on the Royal Air Force and the pilots who fought. Of course one gleans masses of information but often in a somewhat depersonalised way. What you have created here though is rather different, bringing the personal stories of so many pilots and other crew and their families and loved ones, to the fore in a way rarely seen. The emotional effect of that is powerful! I can feel for Manwaring as a civilian pilot myself for many years, being taken off Spitfires to fly the rather bumbling and slow Blenheim which is precisely the opposite of the well known saying "If it looks right it will fly right!"
Outstanding. That AI of xena looks like my grandmother who was also in the WAAF
Fantastic well researched and produced video excellent story I look forward to more from you.
Great job Thanks
Excellent!
Thanks for that was very interesting Steve UK.
G'day to you, Thank you for this Great piece of work, those poor young Men didnt have much of a chance being sent out in obsolete Aircraft, The Big Brass of the RAF sounded a lot like the Army counterparts in WW1, if only the Beaufighters were around at the time, I had 2 Uncles and 1 Aunt in the RAF in WW2! Armadale West Aust.
Thank you once again for a brilliant video. We owe them so much during the 2nd world war. My Uncle was a pilot on Halifax with Squadron 578.
Really good documentary the best
This was very good I actually woke up with it playing it was 1/2 way through so I finished watching and then I watched again from the beginning. This is so well done that I am looking forward to watching more like this. Merry Christmas n' Cheers
Being South African an Hearing the words Sailor Malan , just riddled me with Goosebumps......
I knew a South African BoB pilot, Hugh Wells
A brilliant presentation.
Thanks very much for this.
A meticulous and compelling production making a sobering narrative that captures the humanity of those depicted as well as the history- a film of great distinction. On a personal level, I have a friend whose father was a Blenheim navigator who was shot down in the Abyssinian campaign in 1940. He says apart from the pilot the other crew had virtually no chance of escaping this aircraft type. His father was posted as missing and after the allotted time, declared dead. His mother received a widow's pension and eventually the Red Cross discovered he had survived to become a prisoner of the Italians. My friend said that after this official announcement his mother was contacted and told she must refund the pension monies! I also knew a rather testy former Blenheim pilot who drank in our local called Charlie. When the Blenheim crashed at Denham airfield in 1987 he stated plainly that "he knew that was going to happen" but it was in fact down to pilot error and doing the "touch and go" which was not authorised and the pilot's lack of knowledge of the Mercury engines- he flooded them when he needed maximum power. Thankfully, nobody died in that mishap.
Quality. Well done sir.
Fantastic production thank you
Brilliant and moving
Really fab!
This is the first time that I’ve ever heard the Blenheim described as a fighter bomber. Someone was certainly demonstrating a reckless degree of optimism
That was blinkin' good.
An absolutely stunning production, utterly compelling. Thank you.
Great work!
Wonderful presentation, many thanks. Perhaps a future project could focus on the Fairy Battle's role in France with a sub focus on J C Hayter DFC Bar/MiD?
Spud Hayter will be in the next one! - PD
Excellent video. A mention to the two squadrons of Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm and their pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain and with Costal Command, it would be appreciated
Such brave men! Very sad!
That where some brave young man! I wonder of the young man of this era would be as brave!
People just like us, coping with evil on a scale never seen in the history of humanity.
I tried to find more information about Dudley Ward to see what happened to him and to see if he was disciplined or something
We had a look too. It appears all has been expunged. We found a Gazette entry recording that he resigned his commission in 1941, presumably as a result of the enquiry.
Excellent video
Good work on highlighting coastal command just before the battle of britain. Pilot officer Gane who flew with 248 in A flight have come across in my connections with flying officer A.L.Fowler mentioned in Birds book coastal Dawn. If any relatives of 248 sqn have pics info please contact me. still looking for F.O.Fowlers log book may be in Newzealand.
So young so brave !
Imteresting point about not being able to deploy the dinghy. I cant remember the book or author but he described how, having shot down over the sea a number of occasions....and how each time the dinghy floated away because there was no rope attached to it. Evrntually, having reported the issue through official channels with no result he contacted higher authority directly. He received a snotty letter back informing him that his request for ropes to be fitted to dinghys was impossible because it would add to the cost!
Bureaucracy will be the death of us all.
Enjoyed it --- just wondering how you did the graphics?
Well done
Very moving. The Battle of Britain, a valiant effort, overshadowed a suicidal effort by the RAF earlier but I wonder at the recklessness of the senior officer(s) in sending men in such appalling weather conditions at the end of their physical stamina to sacrifice their lives with nothing gained.
It was the British RAF fighter commander in chief who saved Britain and restricted movement of such lunatic relief missions to France and who was ousted right after the completion of this valiant and superbly organised effort considering the use of the radar in defending Britain.
In retrospect Hitler should have been accommodated by the British even as he stood at Dunkirk (British empire intact and same Anglo Saxon background, the German royal family) and made peace offers. Europe was sacrificed to foreign overseas elements and what a price was paid even by Britain as it stands now.
I'll presume you're unintentionally ignorant. Hitler made peace offerings. He wasn't accommodated because you don't cow-tow to murderous dictators. The British PM who did so demonstrated precisely why such things shouldn't be granted.
The British paid the price of their Empire ( The price exacted by the US in exchange for their assistance in arms, equipment and men) as well as the many prices they paid in advance ( in technological terms). However all that was, morally at least, a price worth paying.
America paid in blood and it's inarguable that that price didn't tip the balance. Irrelevant of it's % capita loss being less compared to the Brits.
Europe has been sold away much quicker and to far more dangerous enemy in the last 30 years than it ever faced in the 30-40s
RAF Bomber Command's casualties in training alone were 10% Would you take a job where you could get killed training - and of course, the final toll was 56%!!
Anyone know where to find a copy of the book. Before the few. Clive Manwaring.
Hi Timothy. Clive wrote 'Before The Few' as an unpublished booklet for the family before he died. When I approached Wiggs's niece about making the film of Wiggs and Zena, she produced Clive's booklet, which has some fascinating information I didn't have time to cover in the film, but which formed the basis of the narrative. I intend to do an outtakes documentary at some point going behind the scenes of this project, when I'll cover a lot of material we couldn't reveal in the films for reasons of time. - Phillip
@
Thank you for your response. Excellent program. The free world owes those exceptional few men and women a debt of gratitude that cannot be repaid.
Thank you for sharing your work. P.S V for vengeance is also excellent work.
What happened to the same video I watched and thoroughly enjoyed a couple of days ago?
Did it have to be taken down?
It was a preview version. This is the permanent one with better colours :)
@majorsterling9889 pity. I really loved that first version, and don't need to watch again, merely for the sake of "better colour"
It's exactly the same, with a few tweaks. Save the link to pass on to others. Thank you for taking the trouble to watch.
a excellent documentry and very sad
I knew a man who flew in Blenhiems in same periodIt also was interesting to me when he said threy had crashed close to the Fren ch coast but he escaped capture for about mths but later in in a german prison camp where Douglas Bader was imprisoned.It was interesting to me to meet some one who,ed survived a Blehiem crash
The refusal of authorities to recognise serious faults with the Blenheim, choosing to blame the aircrew was reflected in the irresponsible and immature attitude of the MOD and the regular army in the 1980s with the SA80A1 rifle! Nobody was ever called to account!
I am familar with "cannon fodder" for ground troops, what is it called for airmen with outclassed equipment? I think these few 'before the few' would fit that description...
Only one problem with this documentary, no subtitles!.... For us old folk with dodgy hearing, we can hear the commentator when there is no music, but when the music kicks in, it is louder than the talking so much guessing is to be done as to what the narrative is...
TH-cam should provide live captions as the film plays. - BH
@@majorsterling9889 Thanks. Perhaps the settings on the video are set to prevent this. Not being an expert on the subject, but the option for subtitles are not available.. Apart from that, it was a very well made documentary. Much better than those TV docs that assume you have forgotten what was said 30 seconds prior and repeat the same thing over and over for an hour.....
@@majorsterling9889 It is fascinating to see how design and function was still very hit and miss. As you show, the design flaws seem to be careless and lacking in understanding of the need for ergonomics. In hindsight it is easy to see the flaws in aircraft, training and technology. At the time, I'm sure that ideas were 10 a penny and the resources to test out these ideas were scarce. Was it better to send the planes out unreliably or in bad weather or simply do nothing, save your crews from a certain death and live to fight another day. In hindsight, I think the latter approach may have yielded better results...
Beautifully judged. Gripping.
more stories please
Captions would be helpful for hearing impaired.
Can you switch them on? I think you can somewhere on here
7 To all that fell in them hard day`s hat`s off.
I had regression done a few years ago i find out why i have a fear of heights and wide open water i was shot down in that war reason i think i was British because i could see the dot on my left wing as i plummeted to the sea.
Fantastic production thank you
Well done