Today is Battle of Britain Day, 70 years ago the battle reached its height and as it became evident that the Luftwaffe could not destroy Fighter Command, Adolf Hitler was forced abandon his plans to invade Great Britain.
This YouTube video of contemporary newsreel reports is evocative of the period.
Of course the commentary is somewhat slanted and there is a lot that isn't mentioned, but then nobody was going to give away the roll that Radar was playing and how the RAF had developed effective command and control systems.
