The pilot of a 222 Squadron RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine Spitfire, based at RAF Hornchurch, exits his cockpit during Battle of Britain, in World War 2, and submits his post-flight Combat Report to the Squadron's Intelligence Officer who meets him after landing. He climbs down and leans on the wing of his aircraft, next to the intelligence officer, as he motions with his hands, describing an aerial encounter with enemy aircraft. He then sketches the situation on the intelligence officer's pad. They both walk away from the parked aircraft.
Film opens showing several Royal Air Force fighter pilots writing combat reports, as they sit in a Squadron operations room, during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. Closeup of one report, shows it is on a prepared Combat Report form. On the one shown, the pilot describes an engagement with German Dornier bombers on a blitz run on September 20th over Dover, at 12 thousand feet. The pilot notes the number of attacks and their intervals, at the bottom of the form. Scene shifts to closeups of other pilots completing their reports. (These pilots are probably with RAF 222 Squadron, flying Supermarine Spitfire airplanes out of RAF Station Hornchurch, in Essex, England.)
British women preparing for air raid blitz during World War 2 Battle of Britain. Blacking out windows. Woman putting on a gas mask. Man stacking sand bags. Air raid shelter being constructed near bank of a river. Radio receiving station. A man communicates through the radio station. Scnes of communication lines and transmission lines warning of incoming attack. German bomber aircraft in flight. Many views of aerial towers with speakers broadcasting warning sirens. British police in motorcycles and in cars driving with loud sirens blaring to warn population of air raid. British civilians going down the entrance of underground air raid shelters. British defenses ready anti-aircraft artillery batteries.
View of a church or monastery with onion dome and cross. German ground crewmen fueling Luftwaffe (German Air Force) Ju 87, Stuka Dive Bomber hidden in woods, during World War 2. German enlisted man closing gas cap on wing of Stuka. German troops, stripped to waist, unload a bomb in a box from a truck. They move the bomb on a dolley to load it on a Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber. Rear seat observer climbs aboard a Ju 87, and takes camera from ground crewman. Stukas taking off. Stukas in formation. Scenes from air, of Ju-87 aircraft attacking lines of communication on the ground. Explosions as bombs strike.
Scene opens showing German soldiers at an anti-aircraft battery standing near a large horn (possibly an acoustic tracking device) as they scan the skies with binoculars looking for Allied aircraft, early in World War 2. One soldier rotates a 1-meter-base range-finder mounted on his helmet. View shifts to German gun crew viewed from above, looking down the barrel of their 12.8 cm Flak 40 gun.The crew elevates the gun barrel, preparing to fire. Next a German gun crew operates their anti-aircraft gun from a well sandbagged position. Closeup of one gunner loading a shell. A soldier with range finder working with smaller gun crew. Closeup of soldier pointing toward enemy (Allied) aircraft. Sound of gun batteries firing and views of aircraft struck and descending on fire. It crashes into countryside. Closeup of crash site, with smoke rising and debris from aircraft scattered about. Momentary glimpse of soldiers marching along a country road. Gun crew firing 12.8 Flak 40, and muffled sounds of gunfire accompanying views of black flak puffs in the sky. View from an aircraft strafing a railroad train and striking the locomotive.
Views from inside German Messerschmitt Bf-110 heavy fighters as they fly and attack Allied ground targets with rockets and cannon fire during World War 2. Close-up aerial views of German ME-109 fighter in flight with pilot visible. View from behind shoulder of Luftwaffe gunner as he fires at Allied ground targets. View of strafing by Messerschmitt Bf110 aircraft. Four different views of Allied aircraft shot down and descending in flames, seen from distance on the ground. A parachute is seen above one. German antiaircraft guns seen.
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