Battle of Britain - Friendly Wing Joining You

At a seminal moment in World War II, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding (Laurence Olivier) must rally his outnumbered pilots against Hitler's feared Luftwaffe. Besieged by German bombing runs, the Brits counter with an aggressive air campaign of their own. Within months, the Nazis find themselves on the run, thanks to Dowding's tactical genius and the work of talented squadron leaders (Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer) and other brave patriots.

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[thegreat_I_am]

I’ve always loved the imagery of the German troops watching the damaged Heinkel limping home and realising that things weren’t going their way.

[themoops]

That low altitude full-throttle dogfight between the Spitfire and 109 while the farmers watch on has always been my favourite scene

[fishyc]

My great uncle fought on 15 September in I believe the biggest battle. He was luftwaffe in a heinkle 111. Got all shot up but made it "home". He survived 1940 and took part in barbarossa until mid 42 when he became a flight instrument instructor in a luftwaffe jugoslavian flight school. Died in a crash during night flying training.
Survived the worst of the Battle of Britain only to die by accident.

[brocksargeant]

Chris Nolan's Dunkirk was a close second, but no movie will ever come close to this regarding the Battle of Britain.

[RogueAce]

One of my favorite scenes from my all-time favorite WW2 movie! Kinda gives a sense of Fighter Command banding together to give the Luftwaffe a good beating during the climatic battles of mid-September 1940.

[JohnDavies-cnro]

Always love the scene with the Polish pilot and the farm hands. As a fun fact, my late grandmother was nursemaid to R J Mitchell when he was a God rest her, she did a damned good job

[larry]

My favourite part of this film that I've seen umpteen times since my dad took me to the 'pictures' in 1969 is the "bloody marvellous" part with the Hurricanes joining Spitfire squadrons.
A few years I found out that the Mustang escorts that shot down ME262's attacking my dad Lancaster Squadron (61) were from 319 Polish Squadron.
Bloody Marvellous 😢

[pinkers]

I always think of Spike Milligan’s line: my uncle managed to destroy five Messerschmitts and four Heinkels…………he was the worst mechanic in the Luftwaffe!

[jameseldridge]

Bloody marvelous. My father a ww2 Canadian veteran took me to see this flick when it was first released.

[Jarod-vgwq]

The polish 303 was the MVP of this battle.

[challenger]

Ron Goodwins score is a true masterpiece

[BanditoBurrito]

We went from flinging rocks and sticks at each other to this. Insane.

[raypurchase]

FUN FACT: Only two Heinkels were flown from Spain to England for the scenes where they interact with Spitfires and Hurricanes. Every shot with massed formations of Heinkels was filmed above Spain, without RAF fighters. The sky looks identical everywhere, so cleverly-intercutting the film of massed bombers above Spain with the two bombers above England makes it look like they were all present at the same time.

[GosWardHen]

Those Polish & Czech pilots were brilliant too. 😅

[Jarod-vgwq]

My grandparents on my dads side served with the RCAF”Royal Canadian Air Force” there duty was to make sure the weather was stable enough for planes to fly.

[raymondyee]

Wished they had that in the BoB campaign in “European Air War”. I think “Combat Flight Simulator” got it close enough with the large number of planes in the air.

[jamesmasztalerz]

Starlight control to Dogtail, look out for a friendly wing joining you on your portside, roger starlight, I see them I see them, bloody marvelous

[NB_NB_NB]

The last scene with the German bomber limping home is very poignant, as up to this point, the Lufrwaffe had it easy across Europe.

[nukemantheststormtroope]

The Rolls Royce Merlin engines make such a beautiful roar. That is why I like to call the spitfires and the hurricanes, the British Lions

[lewissparrow]

Love this film!!!

My favourite bit is the Polish getting stuck into the Germans and in real life their squadron was one of the top scoring units (their top pilot, a Czech bagged 17 enemy aircraft in a month which is some going!)

The R.A.F's top scoring fighter ace scored 50 victories, , the Luftwaffe's top scoring pilot scored 352(!)