The Battle of Britain

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  • RMY 148-11
Production date
1941
Place made
GB
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I. Curtiss P-40s are assembled in a British factory. (98 ft)

 

II. Stirling of 7 Squadron taxies on airfield near Halifax I, possibly of 35 Squadron. (7 Squadron based at Leeming till 29 October 1940, 35 Squadron from 20 November 1940.) (15 ft)

 

III. Flying Fortress B-17C (AN 519) of 90 Squadron revs engines. (18 ft)

 

IV. Men clear rubble from bombed house. (24 ft)

 

V. US roving ambassador Harry Hopkins with Winston Churchill in cold weather. (Possibly during January or February tour of 1941.) (11 ft)

 

VI. RAF Air-Sea Rescue launch pretends to effect rescue. (26 ft)

 

VII. Gunners man waist turrets in Sunderland. (49 ft)

 

VIII. Stirling from item I lands on airfield in summer. (28 ft)

 

IX. Harry Hopkins speaks with Polish pilots of RAF 306 or 308 Squadron at Northolt on 21 July 1941. (20 ft)

 

X. US air attaché General Chaney with British Minister for Aircraft Production Moore-Brabazon on tarmac at Northolt on 21 July 1941. (2 ft)

 

XI. RAF officers lunch in mess. (88 ft)

 

XII. Group Captain takes salute at marchpast by boys in the Air Training Corps, some still in civvies. (97 ft)

 

XIII. White cliffs of Dover in summer. (23 ft)

 

XIV. Cockpit view in flight. (9 ft)

 

XV. General Sikorski with Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and an Air Vice Marshal inspects Polish members of the RAF on Polish Air Force Day. Polish bishop consecrates flag. Polish inscription on hangar reads "For our freedom and yours". (73 ft)

 

XVI. RAF commissioned and non-commissioned officers lunch at separate messes. (154 ft)

 

XVII. Airman in mess reads newspaper with headline "Biggest raid on Britain kills 8, 60 hurt". (22 ft)

 

XVIII. B-17C (AN 519) of 90 Squadron taxies. (6 ft)

 

XIX. Harry Hopkins seated beside cigar-smoking Winston Churchill. (30 ft)

 

XX. Blenheim Is pass overhead. (54 ft)

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35mm

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