The Battle of Britain Page #5

bombs crashed around them.

Rescue squads labored night and day

Hey Warden, I found one."

Is she dead??'

-"Quite dead."

Firemen said, nuts to the bombs,

and battled to put out the fires.

This was life in the blitz.

Against all the rules of Nazi warfare,

Britain was refusing to crumple up.

Across the Channel, the enraged Gring took

personal command of the operations.

And on September 15, he sent the Luftwaffe

into one of its greatest attacks.

Five hundred German bombers and Messerschmitt

fighters, roared over the English coast.

Bomass calling. Planes heard three miles

southwest."

Hostile planes approaching from southwest."

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

and from 5 to 6 miles high.

Two hundred individual dog fights took place within

the first 30 minutes of the raid.

Right on our own doorstep. Oh, what is that??'

Centre calling mountain one."

-"Thank you centre, we'll keep an eye on them."

Hostile formation to the south."

Some of the German bombers broke through

London's defenses.

And reached the centre of the city

Doughy?. Where are you??'

Blimey, I thought they'd got you."

-"Who me, nah. I had my fingers crossed."

140 destroyed, 70 probable.

Dear Ministry Communicant,

..the biggest bag yet. One hundred and

eightyfive enemy aircraft shot down.

End of message."

Of the 500 German planes that came over that day

..more than 1/3were shot down.

In the 28 days of terror,

from September 7th to October 5,

..the Nazis dropped 50 million pounds of bombs on

the city.

Killed 7000 helpless civilians,

..and wounded 10,000 more.

Bombs fell on Buckingham Palace.

Westminster Abbey.

The Houses of Parliament.

Fleet Street, the centre of the news.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

Bombs blasting the historic past,

out of the lives of Englishmen.

But in these 28 days, the Nazis lost

900 planes and their crews.

The more were sent over, the more

were shot down.

The British Spitfire proved to be one of the deadliest

weapons ever put into the hands of man.

If this kept up, pretty soon, no more Luftwafe.

The frantic Nazis had to pull a new one.

They did. On October 6, they changed to night

attacks.

Maybe that way they could avoid those deadly

Spitfires and Hurricanes.

Maybe that way they could crush the stubborn British

spirit.

Never mind control of the air. Never mind Phase one,

Phase two and Phase three.

Never mind control of the air. Never mind Phase one,

Phase two and Phase three.

Now concentrate on bombing the people themselves

into submission.

And make them cry for mercy.

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