:07:08. > :07:13.Here on the site, thousands of workers worked around the clock to
:07:13. > :07:22.produce hundreds of Spitfires, but for the enemy, it was too good a
:07:22. > :07:28.target to miss. The sirens went, and they went across to the
:07:28. > :07:35.shelters and had a game of cards. Then, we heard aeroplane engines,
:07:35. > :07:41.and I was at the one closest to the door, so I rushed out, and I saw
:07:41. > :07:47.the swastika, and I went down quick, and be laid on the floor to shout,
:07:47. > :07:51.and the bombs were crashing out all around us. The blast came through
:07:51. > :08:01.the door, out there the event at the other end, and the concrete
:08:01. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:11.Debt fair runs the world's largest betting exchange. Gamblers who want
:08:11. > :08:15.to place a bet are matched with other gamblers. No bookmaker is
:08:15. > :08:20.involved. This was a big growth company, but since the shares went
:08:20. > :08:30.on the stock market, they have slumped in value.
:08:30. > :08:59.
:08:59. > :09:03.Betfair started with Horseracing, Growth has not been as good as they
:09:03. > :09:13.thought, and we are looking at a gaming business. While technology
:09:13. > :09:25.
:09:25. > :09:34.is important to the business, it is Just gone, this the first time in
:09:34. > :09:44.70 years. Absolutely, and it is quite strange. Dom's shelter was a
:09:44. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:55.life-saver. In 1940, Southampton So Flight-Lieutenant James
:09:55. > :09:57.Nicholson was given the Victoria Cross. He and develop pilot were
:09:58. > :10:02.hit with a fire from the same German plain.
:10:02. > :10:08.With their aircraft on fire, they both had to jump. The only one of
:10:08. > :10:15.them would survive. So at somebody suddenly said look! And we looked
:10:15. > :10:20.above. And from where I stood, the orientation was virtually above
:10:20. > :10:26.this house, but way up. So far up that it was difficult to discern
:10:26. > :10:36.which plane was which. You could hear the machine guns going and so
:10:36. > :10:38.
:10:38. > :10:42.forth. And we saw these two planes in combat, and then suddenly from
:10:43. > :10:47.nowhere, a third plane appeared at that was already on fire, and
:10:47. > :10:51.attacked one of the others, which disappeared over the water dock,
:10:51. > :11:01.trailing smoke. Despite being badly injured, Nicholson remained in his
:11:01. > :11:04.
:11:04. > :11:07.burning aircraft to take one last We became aware of two chutes. One
:11:07. > :11:10.opened, and drifted over towards the south-west which was Nicholson.
:11:10. > :11:15.But we riveted our attention onto the chute that hadn't open properly
:11:15. > :11:20.and was Roman candling behind. was coming down quickly? It was
:11:20. > :11:24.falling at a great rate. It seemed to go on for ever. When we saw them
:11:24. > :11:34.coming down, some of us cheered because we thought it had to be a
:11:34. > :11:36.
:11:36. > :11:39.German. Only Germans got shot down. One seemed to be disappearing over
:11:39. > :11:42.Millbrook and the other one was coming towards us. I could see as
:11:42. > :11:48.it got nearer, this pilot's parachute was damaged, and the
:11:48. > :11:58.pilot was feverishly pulling on the strings. And you could see this?
:11:58. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:04.Yes. You could see his arms pulling? Yes, pulling the strings.
:12:04. > :12:07.Incredible. He was very close, over the house, and he disappeared. My
:12:07. > :12:11.father was in the Home Guard. He went round to see what had happened,
:12:11. > :12:15.and he came back an hour later, and said, he came down in Clifton Road,
:12:15. > :12:19.but it was one of our lads. And he looked so young. He didn't look any
:12:19. > :12:23.age at all. It was just... A very momentous day in my life. I will
:12:23. > :12:27.always remember seeing that poor chap struggling. At only 19 years
:12:27. > :12:31.old, the pilot was Martyn King flying from Boscombe Down. A novice
:12:31. > :12:36.who had only been with 249 squadron for eight weeks. James Nicholson
:12:36. > :12:39.collected his Victoria Cross at Buckingham Palace. ARCHIVE: No
:12:39. > :12:49.braver deed on any of the war fronts has been recorded than that
:12:49. > :12:51.
:12:51. > :12:54.which won the VC for Flight Lieutenant JB Nicholson. We didn't
:12:54. > :13:04.realise at the time we were watching an action that somebody
:13:04. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:46.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds
:13:46. > :13:49.was going to get a VC for. They This is where the bomber crashed.
:13:49. > :13:56.My mother and sister and a schoolfriend, we were out picking
:13:56. > :14:02.blackberries. This Bain seemed to come from nowhere. It was so low
:14:02. > :14:11.that we felt we had to duck. The Spitfire came, and soon after it
:14:11. > :14:16.happened. I remember the terrific bang, and when it came down, there
:14:16. > :14:22.was a bellowing of black smoke. There were flames, it was really
:14:22. > :14:28.scary. It was still burning, and it was a terrible sight, that is all I
:14:28. > :14:34.can say, really. There were bits of bodies lying about. It has still
:14:34. > :14:43.burning at the time. I could not get over the terrible smell. That
:14:43. > :14:47.terrible smell, it haunted me for years. We had a cooked meal when we
:14:47. > :14:54.went back home for our evening meal. It has betrayed us, runner beans,
:14:54. > :15:01.and I could not eat liver for years and years after. The liver smelt
:15:01. > :15:06.like that smell from the crash. That night, I remember when I was
:15:06. > :15:11.going to bed, I was upset, because I knew people that had died, and my
:15:11. > :15:19.Mother said, it was dreadful, because nobody wanted young people
:15:19. > :15:24.to die. It was wartime, and it was kill or be killed.
:15:25. > :15:29.Waugh takes a lot of killing, 10 years later, in 1950, a villager
:15:29. > :15:33.was asked to erect a cross to remember they crew. The village
:15:33. > :15:41.rejected it by two votes in a move that made national headlines.
:15:41. > :15:46.There was a lot of opposition to any kind of memorial or anything.
:15:46. > :15:56.There is a memorial on a private estate, but Barbara has never seen
:15:56. > :15:57.
:15:58. > :16:04.it. I would love to be buried up here. It is really simple. I like
:16:04. > :16:10.the simplicity of it. He does not need to say more than that. It says
:16:10. > :16:16.the men are unknown, but we do know the identities of the crew. One of
:16:16. > :16:21.them was this chap, one of the Gunners. He was a champion swimmer
:16:21. > :16:25.before the war. His fiancee wrote to a lovely letter when they found
:16:25. > :16:32.out what had happened to him. They feared he was going to crash into
:16:32. > :16:37.the sea and swim for Almighty and drown. I would like to read a
:16:37. > :16:40.little bit of the letter. Now, we know for sure that he did not fall
:16:40. > :16:45.into the sea because that would have been very painful for him. He
:16:45. > :16:49.was one of the best swimmers in Germany at the time, but we worried
:16:49. > :16:54.that he would swim until exhausted and drowned. We know it must have
:16:54. > :17:02.been over quickly, and we know where he fell. We thank you all for
:17:02. > :17:06.that comforting knowledge. It is really moving. Very personal. We
:17:06. > :17:10.know that one of the gentle men that shot down that day, he went to
:17:10. > :17:16.become a very famous private, and it was significant because it was
:17:16. > :17:22.his fifth killed and it turned him into an ace. He was flying a
:17:22. > :17:32.Spitfire that day from RAF Middle Wallop. We have a photograph of him
:17:32. > :17:32.
:17:32. > :17:42.here. Having a photograph not only of him, it is a real tale of those
:17:42. > :17:44.
:17:44. > :17:52.two young men. Very similar in age. It is very moving. Bill Green
:17:52. > :17:59.remembers the dramatic day he was shot down. I head injuries in my
:17:59. > :18:04.leg. They sat me in the corner and gave me a cup of tea. This is the
:18:04. > :18:14.actual field where you landed on that date. Do you recognise it?
:18:14. > :18:17.it was indelibly marked on my mind. Around 6pm, we were scrambled.
:18:17. > :18:22.went through the thick cloud and week formed above the clouds at
:18:22. > :18:27.about 12,000 feet. If you said to me, is there any chance you could
:18:27. > :18:32.miss anything, I would say there was no chance. The sky was so
:18:32. > :18:40.clear? Above the cloud, it was crystal clear and a brilliant sun
:18:40. > :18:46.from the West. We looked everywhere. There was a crash. There was a hole
:18:46. > :18:52.in the bullet-proof windscreen and bits fell around my feet. And I was
:18:52. > :18:58.covered in the coolant. I realise the aeroplane was finished. I just
:18:58. > :19:05.took the weight off my bottom on to my feet like that. I found myself
:19:05. > :19:15.in space. I was sucked out. I grabbed the ripcord and I saw
:19:15. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:18.something quite do that. -- wide. I thought, that was odd. It had no
:19:18. > :19:22.significance until the main pack were babysitting and should have
:19:22. > :19:27.been dragged out just fell out of its pack and with me rolling for
:19:27. > :19:33.word, it came up between my legs like this and I rolled into it
:19:33. > :19:40.ended wrapped around my body. And I was falling through space at 140
:19:40. > :19:47.mph. I must have psychologically realised I was going to dive. My
:19:47. > :19:51.thoughts of my death were with my wife. I wondered if she was
:19:51. > :19:55.thinking about what I would think the end would be like? I was trying
:19:56. > :19:59.to seek my own and to my thoughts of her. She realised one minute it
:19:59. > :20:09.would be this, the next, there would be a bang and that would be
:20:09. > :20:09.
:20:09. > :20:17.it. Suddenly, there was a jolt. The wind must have got under one of the
:20:17. > :20:23.Falls and what it open, and it popped the lot out. -- under the
:20:23. > :20:29.foals and blew it open. But quite as I experienced then had more
:20:29. > :20:34.impact than anything else I had ever heard. I looked to the right
:20:34. > :20:40.and I saw the cables. The seemed to be level with me. They were a bit
:20:40. > :20:50.below me. The trees were above me. I thought, I am near the ground. I
:20:50. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :20:57.sat on the floor. 29 was the last of the battle for me. I had 26
:20:57. > :21:02.flights and been shot down twice. He landed in relative safety and
:21:02. > :21:07.his Bain plummeted down to three miles east crashing into a hill. We
:21:07. > :21:11.have managed to locate the site with the help of an aviation
:21:11. > :21:18.archaeologist and Bill is visiting for the first time. This is where
:21:18. > :21:23.you came in. It gives me a funny feeling looking at it. Just
:21:23. > :21:29.thinking I was part of it, and now I am here. I could have been end
:21:29. > :21:35.there, as a great many were. Not many people were in the airplanes
:21:35. > :21:45.when they went in. Happily, I was not. You have left your mark!
:21:45. > :21:46.
:21:46. > :21:54.aeroplane left its mark! Nice to see you. I am attempting to reunite
:21:54. > :22:00.you with us some debris from your hurricane. I will not recognise it.
:22:00. > :22:04.These are some bits that I have picked up. This might be part of
:22:04. > :22:09.the car greater. This is another bit that is part of the hydraulic
:22:09. > :22:14.fitting for the guns. There was one black peace and one orange piece.
:22:14. > :22:18.You had two of those at the bottom of the control column. It was
:22:18. > :22:22.something at the time that she did not take a second look at. Bat
:22:22. > :22:28.could literally had been as close as it is to you now. When he went
:22:28. > :22:36.through that trauma. You could have been touching that. That was part
:22:36. > :22:45.of your aeroplane. Incredible. gives me a funny feeling. You're
:22:45. > :22:55.telling me to hold on to this? please. There from here today, and
:22:55. > :22:56.
:22:56. > :23:00.today he is an important day for both of us. This, to me, is what
:23:00. > :23:03.makes the Battle of Britain so alive. Here we are, with the
:23:03. > :23:09.gentleman that flu a hurricane, and here, a tree that bears the scars
:23:09. > :23:15.of it coming down and the bits that we found today, and Bill is still
:23:16. > :23:25.over there looking for pieces of his aircraft that crashed that day.
:23:26. > :23:33.There again. I never thought we would see a pilot finding bits of
:23:33. > :23:38.his hurricane. That is a handle that to open up the canopy. I found
:23:38. > :23:47.this further down the bank towards the fallen tree. Over 20 years ago.
:23:47. > :23:56.I wanted you to see it and 70 years later, reunited with it. 70 years
:23:56. > :24:05.ago, you grab that Handel and that saved her life. It has got your
:24:05. > :24:12.name on it! It has got to be true! Could you find the others? You just
:24:12. > :24:15.grabbed it and pulled it back. opened up the canopy. Yes, you
:24:15. > :24:21.pulled the canopy back. There were occasions where we were prevented
:24:21. > :24:26.from doing it because a bullet had hit the runner area and people were
:24:26. > :24:33.seen with flames tugging at their handled like this. You could not
:24:33. > :24:38.open it. It went straight down. absolutely wonderful part of the
:24:38. > :24:45.countryside that has not changed since 1940. It is as good as you'll
:24:45. > :24:49.ever get now, as going back in time. This is timeless. You're living and
:24:49. > :24:53.breathing it and touching it, the Battle of Britain. I cannot believe
:24:53. > :25:00.it. There cannot be many situations where people like me are holding 90
:25:00. > :25:08.bits like this being fanned by people like you. I do not think
:25:08. > :25:12.this could be happening. Even though the RAF has vastly
:25:12. > :25:17.outnumbered, the Germans suffered losses they could not sustain. By
:25:17. > :25:27.the end of October, had her called off immediate plans to invade. The
:25:27. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:41.Battle of Britain had been won. Ginger has come here to remember
:25:42. > :25:51.his lost friends. To me, nobody comes close to him. Nobody knows
:25:52. > :26:28.
:26:28. > :26:38.There is another one. I must have The Battle of Britain Memorial in
:26:38. > :26:39.
:26:39. > :26:46.Kent. It is a quite recent innovation. It looks move. Bill
:26:46. > :26:55.Green is one of many better still with us today. -- whenever a few
:26:55. > :27:03.that is still with us today. could not be better. There you are.
:27:03. > :27:09.For you personally, having this here, is this the sort of personal
:27:09. > :27:15.memorial, do you think? I feel very privileged and very humbled that I
:27:15. > :27:23.am among some very brave people. Luckily, I'm still around. Not so
:27:23. > :27:28.many of us around any more. It is nice to see it on a lovely day like
:27:28. > :27:31.this as well. Shame they will not see it. 19-year-old Martyn King,
:27:31. > :27:37.who fell to his death in Southampton, was buried at Fawley
:27:37. > :27:40.All Saints Churchyard on 21st August, 1940. Don, who witnessed
:27:41. > :27:50.his death over 70 years ago, has made the journey to pay his
:27:51. > :27:52.
:27:52. > :28:02.respects. There we are. There's the grave. Pilot Officer King. Such a
:28:02. > :28:11.
:28:11. > :28:14.That is to him and all his brave comrades. So richly deserved. I
:28:14. > :28:24.often wondered, and at times I have thought about it, what must have
:28:24. > :28:30.
:28:30. > :28:34.gone through his mind in those last awful moments. Today, we can still
:28:34. > :28:38.find the craters, the pieces of metal, and for a while longer, hear
:28:38. > :28:47.the voices of those that defended our nation against the real threat
:28:47. > :28:52.of invasion. Seven German dive bombers, one going down on its