0:00:02 > 0:00:06Hello from the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in Cambridgeshire.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09It's a former RAF base which played a pivotal role
0:00:09 > 0:00:11in the Battle of Britain.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13We're here throughout Remembrance Week
0:00:13 > 0:00:15celebrating courage, honouring heroes
0:00:15 > 0:00:18and remembering those who didn't return home.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27All week I'm exploring some of the treasures here
0:00:27 > 0:00:30with former army officer Andy Torbet.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38And celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and broadcasting
0:00:38 > 0:00:41share the role their families played during the war.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48On today's programme, the Battle of Britain.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50Journalist John Sergeant
0:00:50 > 0:00:53tells us about his fascination for wartime aircraft.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Wow, look at that! I'm actually flying a Spitfire.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Back in the air after 70 years,
0:01:04 > 0:01:08the pilot who delivered fighter planes to the front line.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10I hope I shall feel all right.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13And I've got to climb up on there. I think I can manage that.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17And we hear from a woman whose father's Lancaster bomber
0:01:17 > 0:01:18went missing in Germany.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I've been waiting a long time to see this.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25I didn't think I'd ever see it.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Good morning and welcome to the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
0:01:46 > 0:01:52This site was an RAF air base from 1918 until 1961
0:01:52 > 0:01:54and now it's home to thousands of exhibits
0:01:54 > 0:01:56from all periods of warfare,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59from this Lancaster bomber next to me
0:01:59 > 0:02:01to a Battle of Britain Operations Room
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and even a Polaris nuclear missile.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06During World War II, the runways
0:02:06 > 0:02:09here were packed with Battle of Britain pilots
0:02:09 > 0:02:12taking to the skies in the fight for air superiority.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16It was a battle that changed the course of history,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19and someone who is passionate about that period joins us today.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21John Sergeant, welcome to Duxford.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25Incredible to think what was going on here during World War II.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Why is it, do you think, 75 years later,
0:02:28 > 0:02:30the Battle of Britain still captures our imaginations?
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I think it was because we really did stand alone.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36The Germans had knocked out France,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38they controlled most of the continent
0:02:38 > 0:02:40and really it was a question of,
0:02:40 > 0:02:44would the Brits fight and how would they fight?
0:02:44 > 0:02:47And the answer was emphatic that we would put all the young men
0:02:47 > 0:02:50into the skies and they would fight brilliantly
0:02:50 > 0:02:53with a new prime minister urging them on
0:02:53 > 0:02:57and urging the country on after the humiliation of Dunkirk.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01So the timing and the importance of this battle,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03well, you really can't exaggerate it,
0:03:03 > 0:03:07it was just so critical, and once it had happened
0:03:07 > 0:03:10the Germans knew that they couldn't invade Britain
0:03:10 > 0:03:11without a hell of a fight
0:03:11 > 0:03:13which they knew they couldn't win at that stage.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16It was definitely one of those times where the start, a great defeat,
0:03:16 > 0:03:20followed almost instantly by the underdog fighting back and winning.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23That's right and that's what makes it so exciting in retrospect
0:03:23 > 0:03:25but also so impressive because,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27as you know as a military man,
0:03:27 > 0:03:30everything depends on the quality of the fighting men
0:03:30 > 0:03:33and the women who were involved at that point.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Will they fight and how hard will they fight?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39And, of course, if they do it courageously,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41we value courage so highly
0:03:41 > 0:03:45but in those circumstances, without courage, you lose your country.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49I mean, it couldn't be more devastatingly important, I think.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51And I know, John, you are particularly fascinated
0:03:51 > 0:03:52about the Battle of Britain.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55You're going to explain more about that later on.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58We talk about men in their flying machines for good reason,
0:03:58 > 0:04:03but for much of World War II, women weren't allowed in the skies at all.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06That was until there was a desperate need for pilots to fly aircraft
0:04:06 > 0:04:10from the factory to the front-line RAF bases.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12At that point, women took to the cockpits.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14They were known as the Spitfire Girls
0:04:14 > 0:04:17but only a handful of these women are left.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25The freedom of being up there in the air, you know.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30The wide-open spaces, and seeing the ground from the air.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35You never took it for granted, you were thrilled at every time.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43During the war, Joy Lofthouse was one of just 168 female pilots
0:04:43 > 0:04:47who helped to keep our overstretched fighter squadrons going,
0:04:47 > 0:04:49by ferrying planes across the country.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Other women certainly were envious of our job
0:04:55 > 0:04:59because all women were doing something during the war
0:04:59 > 0:05:04and there we were flying aeroplanes and they paid us for it, too!
0:05:04 > 0:05:09We were doing, I should think, just about the most exciting job
0:05:09 > 0:05:13that there was to be done by women in the war.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18I flew a Barracuda, two Mustangs...
0:05:18 > 0:05:23This book tells the story of Joy's remarkable time as a pilot
0:05:23 > 0:05:26in the Air Transport Auxiliary.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28That was quite a good month.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Joy flew 18 different types of aircraft on hundreds of missions.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37She's now 92 but her flying started when she was just 18.
0:05:38 > 0:05:44I saw a news item to say that ATA had run out of qualified pilots
0:05:44 > 0:05:47and were training people with no experience at all.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50And I thought that sounded better than working in a bank.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52I'd never even been in an aeroplane
0:05:52 > 0:05:56and I didn't even drive a car, so I learnt to fly before I could drive.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59As war raged across Europe,
0:05:59 > 0:06:03the pressure to have fighter planes ready at the airfields grew rapidly
0:06:03 > 0:06:05and pilots were in great demand.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10NEWSREEL: 'The delivery of new aircraft from factories
0:06:10 > 0:06:12'to operational centres is the responsibility of
0:06:12 > 0:06:16'a vast organisation known as the Air Transport Auxiliary -
0:06:16 > 0:06:18'with men of 14 different nationalities in its ranks.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21'And also helping in this important work are several women.'
0:06:21 > 0:06:25You never knew from one day to the next where you were going.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28They would hand out the little bits of paper we'd call "chitties".
0:06:28 > 0:06:31And then that was the exciting bit, "Where are you going?
0:06:31 > 0:06:35"What are you flying?", you know? And they knew, of course,
0:06:35 > 0:06:39that we were all trying to fly as many types as possible.
0:06:41 > 0:06:46There was one plane that was at the very top of any ATA girl's list.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Of course I remember the first day I ever flew a Spitfire
0:06:53 > 0:06:56because that was the culmination of our training
0:06:56 > 0:07:01and, of course, it was quite the fastest thing you'd ever flown.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04But my big worry the first time I flew it
0:07:04 > 0:07:06was whether I'd lose the airfield.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09You're so busy looking at the cockpit
0:07:09 > 0:07:11and then you shut the hood
0:07:11 > 0:07:16and you're miles away by then because she's going so fast.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Joy also has a fondness for a more humble aeroplane,
0:07:19 > 0:07:23one that started the flying careers of so many pilots.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27One of the first aircraft I ferried was a Tiger Moth
0:07:27 > 0:07:30because we were barely through our training,
0:07:30 > 0:07:35and they suddenly had a whole gaggle of Tiger Moths to fly down to Wales.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37There was a little bit of banter, of course.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40"See you there, Joy, if you get there," sort of business.
0:07:40 > 0:07:46The ATA pilots often flew alone and with no navigation aids.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47The dangers were high.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50173 air crew died.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I suppose we lost perhaps a dozen women.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Some of the accidents were weather,
0:07:57 > 0:08:02some were aircraft malfunction, you know.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04But none of my close friends were killed, no.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Joy's flat in Gloucestershire
0:08:09 > 0:08:12is a treasure trove of memorabilia from her flying days,
0:08:12 > 0:08:17the centrepiece being her uniform, still in pristine condition.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21And the first time you wore it, of course you were very proud.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25We had two hats. This seems to be the only one that survived.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27I don't know whether my head's got bigger
0:08:27 > 0:08:30but it will just about go on for me.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33After the war, the ATA was disbanded
0:08:33 > 0:08:36and for most of these remarkable women,
0:08:36 > 0:08:38life was never quite the same again.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43I missed flying dreadfully when we first stopped.
0:08:43 > 0:08:48I think I last flew in September 1945
0:08:48 > 0:08:51and I thought to myself,
0:08:51 > 0:08:53"What am I going to do the rest of my life?
0:08:53 > 0:08:56"I'm never going to do anything as exciting as this again,"
0:08:56 > 0:08:57and I was probably right.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01For Joy, the years she spent as part of that unique service
0:09:01 > 0:09:04delivering planes to the front line will never leave her.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09It was wonderful. There you were, up in the sky
0:09:09 > 0:09:12and no-one could talk to you, nobody could say, "Come back,
0:09:12 > 0:09:16"you're going the wrong way," or anything like that.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19I mean, it was such a wonderful job to be doing.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21You couldn't really better it, could you?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33What an incredible woman, and make sure you stay with us
0:09:33 > 0:09:35because later in the programme, we have a real treat for Joy
0:09:35 > 0:09:38as she takes to the skies once again.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Now, John, we heard there about Joy flying Spitfires,
0:09:41 > 0:09:42the iconic Spitfire,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45and I believe you've been lucky enough to get in one.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49I have indeed. I was making a film a few years ago about the Spitfire
0:09:49 > 0:09:52and they didn't tell me that I was going to fly in one
0:09:52 > 0:09:54and there I was then, the two-seater Spitfire
0:09:54 > 0:09:59and with me at the controls and allowed to fly it by the pilot,
0:09:59 > 0:10:01so that was one of the greatest moments, I suppose...
0:10:01 > 0:10:04well, of my life. What did it feel like?
0:10:04 > 0:10:08It was so exciting and it was so like the planes I used to fly
0:10:08 > 0:10:11when I was learning to fly as an RAF cadet
0:10:11 > 0:10:13and I went straight back to that.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14You've been flying for a long time, then.
0:10:14 > 0:10:20I was trained under a flying scholarship scheme as a cadet
0:10:20 > 0:10:24because they were so worried about what happened in 1940
0:10:24 > 0:10:25that if it happened again,
0:10:25 > 0:10:29they would have to train the young pilots in the 1950s.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32So although I'd failed my driving test the day before,
0:10:32 > 0:10:36I set off for a month-long training in biplanes,
0:10:36 > 0:10:39converted Tiger Moths at Thruxton,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41to get my private pilot's licence, which I did.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44They wouldn't let you on the roads but they let you in the skies.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Now, clearly, flying planes and the Battle of Britain especially
0:10:47 > 0:10:49is a real passion of yours.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Have you ever met any of the heroes of the Battle of Britain?
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Yes, I've met a few of them and, of course, they do make
0:10:55 > 0:10:58the rest of us feel sort of small and pointless, don't they?
0:10:58 > 0:11:01I mean, these are great characters, but they also...
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Anyone who's risked their lives in that way,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07you feel it's an aura around them which you can't take away
0:11:07 > 0:11:09and you don't want to take it away from them,
0:11:09 > 0:11:14you want to just think, "You are a hero and how wonderful."
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Some of these guys became...
0:11:15 > 0:11:18effectively became celebrities during the war.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Yes, that's the bit that people sort of forget,
0:11:20 > 0:11:24how important it was for the government and for Churchill
0:11:24 > 0:11:27to laud all their exploits,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30because if people could see what these young men were doing,
0:11:30 > 0:11:34it would inspire them in all kinds of ways during the Blitz
0:11:34 > 0:11:36and the bombing. You've got to see that in the context of
0:11:36 > 0:11:39when you've got the possibility of a hero, play up to them,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42let the newspaper people interview them.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Douglas Bader being one of the heroes.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47And Douglas Bader, who was in this base first of all,
0:11:47 > 0:11:48this was his first base,
0:11:48 > 0:11:52he was over the evacuation from Dunkirk in a Spitfire.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57He came here, trained in Spitfires. He had no legs, for goodness' sake.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01So, what a fantastic person to then make a squadron leader.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04And then, when he was shot down,
0:12:04 > 0:12:08he collided with a plane in France and he was shot down,
0:12:08 > 0:12:10and he only got out of his plane
0:12:10 > 0:12:13because he could detach one of his legs.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16And so he could parachute. Well, that is...
0:12:16 > 0:12:19I've been a journalist all my working life,
0:12:19 > 0:12:21that is just gold dust, isn't it?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23And it wasn't just British pilots
0:12:23 > 0:12:25flying in the Battle of Britain, was it?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28No, that's also the rather exciting thing,
0:12:28 > 0:12:30that they came from all the old Commonwealth countries
0:12:30 > 0:12:32but they came also from France
0:12:32 > 0:12:34and from Poland, that had been taken over.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38They were people with intense feelings for what they were doing
0:12:38 > 0:12:41and they didn't want to let their countries down.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44It gives a sort of impression of young people so proud of the fact
0:12:44 > 0:12:46that they could do something.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48We're going to hear more from you, John, later on.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50But, of course, this year marks
0:12:50 > 0:12:53the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55In the summer of 1940,
0:12:55 > 0:12:58with the imminent threat of attack from Germany,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined we wouldn't be defeated.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05He rallied the nation with one of the most powerful weapons
0:13:05 > 0:13:07in his armoury - words.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11On the 18th of June, Churchill delivered a speech
0:13:11 > 0:13:15to galvanise the nation for the brutal battle ahead,
0:13:15 > 0:13:18read today by veterans who took part in the war effort.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35The Battle of Britain is about to begin.
0:13:36 > 0:13:43Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47Upon it depends our own British life,
0:13:47 > 0:13:51the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56The whole fury and might of the enemy
0:13:56 > 0:14:00must very soon be turned on us.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island
0:14:03 > 0:14:04or lose the war.
0:14:08 > 0:14:14If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19And the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24But if we fail,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27the whole world, including the United States,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30including all that we have known and cared for...
0:14:30 > 0:14:33..will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age...
0:14:33 > 0:14:35..made more sinister,
0:14:35 > 0:14:40and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
0:14:41 > 0:14:47Let us therefore brace ourselves that if the British Empire
0:14:47 > 0:14:52and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years...
0:14:52 > 0:14:54..men will still say,
0:14:54 > 0:14:57"This was their finest hour."
0:15:00 > 0:15:04On the 10th July, the Battle of Britain started.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Wave after wave of German bombers
0:15:07 > 0:15:11and fighter aircraft launched attacks on Britain's air defences.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13BELL RINGS
0:15:13 > 0:15:19The RAF fighter pilots were outnumbered, but they held firm.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23After nearly four months of battle raging in the skies,
0:15:23 > 0:15:29the Luftwaffe retreated, wrecking Hitler's plans to invade Britain.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Churchill was deeply moved by the bravery
0:15:32 > 0:15:35and sacrifice of the air force.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38He delivered a speech at the height of the battle,
0:15:38 > 0:15:42praising and encouraging the pilots in the epic struggle
0:15:42 > 0:15:46which turned the course of the war and of history.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51The gratitude of every home in our island,
0:15:51 > 0:15:54in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world...
0:15:54 > 0:15:56..except in the abodes of the guilty...
0:15:56 > 0:16:01..goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds...
0:16:01 > 0:16:05..unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger...
0:16:05 > 0:16:09..are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and devotion.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Never in the field of human conflict
0:16:23 > 0:16:25was so much owed by so many to so few.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36Well, this is the original Battle of Britain hangar at Duxford
0:16:36 > 0:16:40and in here are some of the aircraft that actually took part,
0:16:40 > 0:16:43and here to tell us all about it is Carl Warner.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Now, this is a Hurricane.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Explain the role that the Hurricane played during the Battle of Britain.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50The Hurricane was one of the RAF's two main fighters
0:16:50 > 0:16:52in the Battle of Britain. The Spitfire is more famous
0:16:52 > 0:16:54but what the Hurricane did
0:16:54 > 0:16:56was it provided the Royal Air Force with numbers.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58It was easier to build than the Spitfire so, of course,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01there were more Hurricanes, and they shot down more aircraft
0:17:01 > 0:17:03than any other aircraft in the battle.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06And in terms of performance, what was it...what was it like?
0:17:06 > 0:17:08It was a great workhorse. It was able to take on the bombers,
0:17:08 > 0:17:10so the slower-flying bombers, and indeed,
0:17:10 > 0:17:14it did tangle with German fighters and often came off best,
0:17:14 > 0:17:16but it didn't have quite the same performance as the Spitfire.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18The Spitfire is what gave the RAF
0:17:18 > 0:17:20that sort of performance edge in the Battle of Britain as well.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Now, you mentioned German fighters, because we've got one over here.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Yes, this is the Messerschmitt Bf 109,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29so this is the main single-seat fighter that was used by the Germans
0:17:29 > 0:17:32in the Battle of Britain. And it crashed in England? It did.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34This one, it's a classic example of one of the many reasons
0:17:34 > 0:17:36why the Battle of Britain was won by the RAF.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Of course, it crashed, its pilot became a prisoner.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41When Hurricanes and Spitfires crashed,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43frequently their pilots were back in action that afternoon.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46So, that made a huge difference?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49It did, it kept fighter numbers up and it's one of the key problems
0:17:49 > 0:17:51with attacking over a foreign country -
0:17:51 > 0:17:53you tend to lose your guys.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56This particular aircraft actually went on a tour,
0:17:56 > 0:17:57a fundraising tour of North America,
0:17:57 > 0:17:59so it was used to drum up support for the war effort,
0:17:59 > 0:18:02the British war effort, and in fact, people would pay to see it and
0:18:02 > 0:18:05quite a lot of them scratched their names into the wing of the aircraft.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07During the war, really? During the war, yeah,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10prior to America's entry and just after America's entry,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12trying to drum up that support for the British war effort,
0:18:12 > 0:18:15to remind the Americans that they should come in on the right side.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18And it was a good plane, though, wasn't it? I mean, you can see
0:18:18 > 0:18:20what the Spitfires and the Hurricanes were up against.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22It was, it was a very successful fighter.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Um, the problem was that the Germans didn't have enough of them.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29They needed many, many, many more aircraft than they had to actually,
0:18:29 > 0:18:31if they were going to win the Battle of Britain,
0:18:31 > 0:18:34so, despite it being a very well-performing aircraft,
0:18:34 > 0:18:36the RAF was always able to remain in being
0:18:36 > 0:18:39and not get shot down in the numbers that the Germans needed.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42I've just heard a plane take off here, at Duxford. Just give us
0:18:42 > 0:18:45an idea what it would've been like here during the Battle of Britain.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Well, Duxford's still a living airfield,
0:18:47 > 0:18:49so you can still see examples of these types taking off,
0:18:49 > 0:18:52but during the Battle of Britain, Duxford was essentially
0:18:52 > 0:18:54responsible for the defence of the Midlands,
0:18:54 > 0:18:56but it also helped out with the defence of London,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59so a lot of fighters were concentrated here, so, on some days,
0:18:59 > 0:19:01you would see up to 60 aircraft taking off from Duxford
0:19:01 > 0:19:03and its satellite station at Fowlmere
0:19:03 > 0:19:05to head down to London to help with the defences.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08It must've been incredible. Carl, thank you. Thank you.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Still to come on today's programme...
0:19:13 > 0:19:19former Spitfire girl Joy Lofthouse takes to the skies again aged 92.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24I don't think I'm going to do anything fancy! Ha-ha!
0:19:24 > 0:19:29John Sergeant hears the tragic tale of a Lancaster lost in a lake.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33That's all that's left.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35That little bit of metal.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Of seven men's lives.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42And Boogie Woogie Bugle Boys -
0:19:42 > 0:19:44a special performance by The Three Belles.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56One of my favourite exhibits here at Duxford is this -
0:19:56 > 0:19:59the Lancaster bomber. John Sergeant is still here,
0:19:59 > 0:20:02and I know you're fascinated by these incredibly majestic planes.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05They are. Kids nowadays talk about things being awesome,
0:20:05 > 0:20:08but that really is awesome, isn't it? Mm-hm.
0:20:08 > 0:20:09And what's amazing is that,
0:20:09 > 0:20:12when I was a child looking at these things, you didn't associate it
0:20:12 > 0:20:16with death and destruction, you just looked at the plane
0:20:16 > 0:20:18and you thought, "This is just so..."
0:20:18 > 0:20:22Well, it's so cool, isn't it? It's just so beautifully designed.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24And to think this big thing will go up into the air,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26carrying all these people,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29it was just in a very simple way, can a plane do that?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32And can they do it with such sort of fortitude
0:20:32 > 0:20:34and with all the ack-ack guns going off round them?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37And this thing is flying through the night.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39I just thought then, and I think now, awesome!
0:20:39 > 0:20:42But they must've been incredibly frightening for the crew on board.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46They were, and, er, you know, a lot of them, of course, would be killed
0:20:46 > 0:20:48and a lot of them couldn't communicate very well,
0:20:48 > 0:20:51because there's the rear gunner, so there are seven in all.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Then there's the gunner here - the middle position -
0:20:54 > 0:20:57but they're very vulnerable below here.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59So you've got the navigator, various people there,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01but there's not much contact.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05You met, earlier this year, a woman called Elaine Towlson, whose father,
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Stan Shaw, flew one of these Lancaster bombers in the war. Yeah.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11And she told you all about that, about his experience.
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Let's have a look.
0:21:18 > 0:21:24I often wish, you know, that I could go back in time...
0:21:24 > 0:21:25just to see him once more.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Impossible.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Absolutely impossible.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34I loved him to bits.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Stan Shaw and the crew of DV202
0:21:39 > 0:21:44were just seven from tens of thousands of British service men
0:21:44 > 0:21:49and women recorded as lost without trace after the Second World War.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54All are remembered by the memorial at Runnymede.
0:21:55 > 0:22:00'DV202's last flight took off from Dunholme Lodge in Lincolnshire
0:22:00 > 0:22:06'at 9:40pm on August the 17th, 1943.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09'They were headed for Peenemunde.'
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Most of the Lancasters that were lost went down in the sea,
0:22:12 > 0:22:14or crashed into these woods.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16All of them have disappeared.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19All but one.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23This is Lake Kolpinsee,
0:22:23 > 0:22:27just a few hundred yards from the missile base at Peenemunde.
0:22:28 > 0:22:33During the raid, Botho Stuwe watched as a Lancaster Mark III
0:22:33 > 0:22:38was shot down by German night fighters and crashed into the lake.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43HE SPEAKS GERMAN:
0:23:10 > 0:23:15There were 40 aircraft lost during the raid on Peenemunde.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Not one is recorded as crashing into a lake.
0:23:19 > 0:23:24After the war, a special team was set up to search for those lost.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27They'd heard the rumours of the Lancaster in the lake.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29It was never found.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31But it IS here.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33A Lancaster Mark III,
0:23:33 > 0:23:37part of the third and final wave.
0:23:37 > 0:23:43And here, in Peenemunde, they have no doubt who the rear gunner was.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45He was worried, I think,
0:23:45 > 0:23:49because he'd got to go and he couldn't see me mum.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52And, er, he got his uniform on,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54I didn't have time to clean his buttons that time.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58And, er...
0:23:58 > 0:24:00I ran to the bottom of the street and waved.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05It was the last time Elaine saw her father.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09She tries to go to the Runnymede Memorial every year,
0:24:09 > 0:24:11to pay respects to her dad,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14but she's never been here to Peenemunde.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Until now.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Hello, Elaine. Hello. Thanks for coming.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Yeah. Your hands are cold.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43I'm sorry, are you all right? Yes, thank you. OK. Right, let's, er...
0:24:43 > 0:24:47'One of Elaine's sons, Russell, has come to support his mother.'
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Hello. Hello, John. Very nice to meet you.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Pleased to meet you too. Yeah. Russell. Yeah.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Let's, er... Now, we've just got to go down here.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59It's, er, the little jetty. Right.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01It's a very...
0:25:01 > 0:25:04desolate sort of area, isn't it? It is, yes. Yeah.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06It is desolate.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17We are now finally on the side of the lake.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Now, can you see over there?
0:25:20 > 0:25:23Can you see that sort of little white thing? Yeah.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27Now, that is part of the Lancaster.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34VOICE BREAKS: I've been waiting a long time.
0:25:35 > 0:25:40I really have, to see this. Yeah. I didn't think I'd ever see it.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42This is very likely where your father died.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44But it's good that you're here, isn't it?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Yes, very good.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51It's wonderful, cos I can say... goodbye.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56And look at the sun coming through the clouds.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00Yeah. That's amazing, isn't it? Yes, it is. Like two searchlights.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Oh, yes, it's a lovely place.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05It really is.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11'In 1948, Elaine's mother Elsie received
0:26:11 > 0:26:13'a letter from the Red Cross.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17'By then, the Russian Army controlled Peenemunde.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21'They had received information from local people that all of the
0:26:21 > 0:26:24'crew from the Lancaster in the lake
0:26:24 > 0:26:27'had been removed from the wreck.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29'All were dead.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32'Four of the airmen were buried on the lake shore.
0:26:32 > 0:26:38'One of them was named as Flight Sergeant Stanley Shaw.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42'No evidence of the graves exist.'
0:26:44 > 0:26:46That's all that's left. Mmm.
0:26:46 > 0:26:47That little bit of metal.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Of seven men's lives.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55That's Reg. Yes.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Billy.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Peter.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Mac.
0:27:11 > 0:27:12Les.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Tom.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20And Dad.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25THEY TALK QUIETLY
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Clearly incredibly emotional -
0:27:43 > 0:27:46understandably emotional for Elaine, for her son, but also for you.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Well, yes, to be there, on this lake,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51with the remains of a Lancaster,
0:27:51 > 0:27:55and to have Elaine reel out the names of the crew,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58who had been with her father when they were all killed,
0:27:58 > 0:28:01I was shaking with emotion. I thought it was...
0:28:01 > 0:28:03It was certainly the most sort of tear-jerking episode
0:28:03 > 0:28:06I've been involved in, I thought it was just extraordinary.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08What were the total losses of Bomber Command?
0:28:08 > 0:28:10About half of them were killed.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13So, if you think of the whole sort of bomber force,
0:28:13 > 0:28:17about 50,000 young men were killed
0:28:17 > 0:28:22and their attrition rate was the same as it was in the worst period
0:28:22 > 0:28:26of the First World War, so people go on about that,
0:28:26 > 0:28:29but they have no idea just how dangerous it was
0:28:29 > 0:28:32for a young man climbing into this Lancaster.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36Their chances of returning often, well, they weren't very high.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40But it's very difficult for people to understand nowadays
0:28:40 > 0:28:41just what that's like.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44You joined the BBC in the 1970s and then you covered
0:28:44 > 0:28:47your fair share of conflicts, and a big range of conflicts as well.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50I did, but I wasn't a hero.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53I mean, I did it, because that's what you did as a reporter.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55I wanted to be a top reporter.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58And that was just, I suppose, what we had to do.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Um, but it was dangerous, very dangerous.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Vietnam, the Middle East, um, Rhodesia, as it was then.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07So, yes, I was in these dangerous places, but
0:29:07 > 0:29:10I don't want to give the impression I was some kind of heroic figure,
0:29:10 > 0:29:14or to compare myself with the young men who flew these planes,
0:29:14 > 0:29:16knowing they had a high chance of being killed.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18I didn't think I had a high chance of being killed.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21It just turned out sometimes it was very dangerous.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22John, thank you.
0:29:22 > 0:29:26Well, back to World War II now and, during the Battle of Britain,
0:29:26 > 0:29:29Duxford's Operations Room would have been a hive of activity.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31Andy is there now.
0:29:31 > 0:29:35OVER TANNOY: This is Operations! Operations! Air raid warning!
0:29:35 > 0:29:40During the summer of 1940, Duxford was home to five RAF squadrons.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42As German fighters crossed from Europe,
0:29:42 > 0:29:45our boys would scramble into their planes to meet them
0:29:45 > 0:29:50and the battles that ensued would be directed from places like this.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53One of the ladies who worked in an operations room
0:29:53 > 0:29:56during the Battle of Britain is Sheree Lygo-Hackett.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59Sheree, thank you very much for joining us.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01Now, when was the last time you were in an operations room?
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Well, it'll be, let's see, it's about early 1943, it would be.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07So, 72 years? Yes!
0:30:07 > 0:30:09And what was your job?
0:30:09 > 0:30:10Well, I was a plotter. OK.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12Can you show me what you used to do?
0:30:12 > 0:30:15Well, they'd send the number of the raids through... Mm-hm.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18..which you've got it all set up here.
0:30:18 > 0:30:23You had the number of the raid and you had the height
0:30:23 > 0:30:26and the number of aircraft.
0:30:26 > 0:30:31You'd put a plot, either according to the clock, the Ops Room clock,
0:30:31 > 0:30:33you changed them every five minutes.
0:30:33 > 0:30:39By doing that, the controller would be able to get the aircraft
0:30:39 > 0:30:45up in the sector where we were to intercept the, um, enemy.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48So you were monitoring where all the aircraft were?
0:30:48 > 0:30:51You had to keep your wits about you, because you would have this on,
0:30:51 > 0:30:55and you had to listen to the plots coming through,
0:30:55 > 0:30:58and the sooner that you got them on the board,
0:30:58 > 0:31:03the sooner the controller could act and get the kites airborne.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07And what was it like when, you know, bombers were flying overhead?
0:31:07 > 0:31:11In those days, you didn't allow yourself to be frightened.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13You got on with it.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17Generally, I think people didn't know whether they were going to be alive
0:31:17 > 0:31:22the next hour, not just in the Ops Room, but generally with the public,
0:31:22 > 0:31:24and, um, I think that, er,
0:31:24 > 0:31:27yes, people were a bit afeard,
0:31:27 > 0:31:29but we got on with it, you had to!
0:31:29 > 0:31:31There was nothing else you could do.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33So live life while you could.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36Sheree, are you proud of the work you did during the war?
0:31:36 > 0:31:40Yes, I am, and I think all of us
0:31:40 > 0:31:43that were in the war are proud of what we did.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46We were all cogs in a big wheel and,
0:31:46 > 0:31:50if we hadn't all pulled together, we'd never have made it through.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52Sheree, thank you very much
0:31:52 > 0:31:54for sharing your experiences with us today.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05Every year, thousands of people pour through the doors of the museum.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09We've been finding out what's brought some of today's visitors here.
0:32:14 > 0:32:19This plane behind me is the one I flew a number of times
0:32:19 > 0:32:21on the Berlin Airlift.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25We carried flour, coal,
0:32:25 > 0:32:27anything needed at the time.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29Berlin was completely cut off.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33And so, we had to... literally feed Berlin.
0:32:33 > 0:32:38It was hard work, but these are lovely aircraft to fly.
0:32:43 > 0:32:47Today, we've seen the Spitfire, um, and that's been flying around,
0:32:47 > 0:32:50and it's been great to see, because they've done it up, restored it,
0:32:50 > 0:32:52and it's looking pretty good in its glory.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57I'm reminiscing my childhood in RAF Duxford.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00We came here to live in 1946.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04We played around the RAF station and used to walk across the airfield
0:33:04 > 0:33:06when the planes weren't flying to Duxford
0:33:06 > 0:33:09and, er, we really had a lovely childhood here.
0:33:12 > 0:33:16This is my first time here and it's just amazing. To get this close up
0:33:16 > 0:33:20to something like a Vulcan is... is incredible. No, it's amazing.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34Well, earlier, we heard the amazing story of Joy Lofthouse,
0:33:34 > 0:33:38who flew 18 different types of planes during the Second World War.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41Joy never lost her passion for flying,
0:33:41 > 0:33:44and what better way to celebrate the wonderful work she did
0:33:44 > 0:33:48than by reuniting her with one of her favourite planes?
0:33:52 > 0:33:56Today is a chance for Joy to turn back the clock.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00More than 70 years after she learned to fly,
0:34:00 > 0:34:04she's taking to the skies once again.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07Well, it's a long time since I've been in a Tiger Moth,
0:34:07 > 0:34:10so, part of me's looking forward to it
0:34:10 > 0:34:14and part of me is wondering how I'll feel in the wide open spaces.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17But I'm very much looking forward to it - taking me back
0:34:17 > 0:34:19to my very, very early days of training.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25Tiger Moths were the main training planes for ATA pilots.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27With an open cockpit and simple controls,
0:34:27 > 0:34:31they were the ideal plane to perfect flying skills.
0:34:31 > 0:34:35Today, Joy will fly in this one at White Waltham Airfield
0:34:35 > 0:34:38in Berkshire - her old training ground.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45Many of the buildings here are still as they were
0:34:45 > 0:34:49when the war ended and for Joy, the memories are flooding back.
0:34:50 > 0:34:55She looks quite small. No smaller than a Spitfire.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57But...somehow different.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Well, she would be different, wouldn't she?
0:34:59 > 0:35:04But it's so long since I flew in an open cockpit.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06I hope I shall feel all right.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08And I've got to climb up on there,
0:35:08 > 0:35:11I think I can manage that, just about.
0:35:12 > 0:35:15Tiger Moths were designed in the 1930s
0:35:15 > 0:35:18and stayed in service for more than 25 years.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21Now, there are just a few remaining in the UK.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25We would have used the height indicator, the height you were
0:35:25 > 0:35:28flying at, and the speed,
0:35:28 > 0:35:30and that was about all we needed to know.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34Flying with Joy, another woman of the sky -
0:35:34 > 0:35:36instructor Amanda Harrison.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40I think she'll probably put me to shame.
0:35:40 > 0:35:43She'll remember how to fly it perfectly and it will be such an
0:35:43 > 0:35:47honour to take up Joy, my hero, and pass the controls over to her
0:35:47 > 0:35:48and for her to feel the freedom
0:35:48 > 0:35:51of the Tiger Moth again, it'll be brilliant.
0:35:51 > 0:35:56Hello, Joy. Hello! Oh, it's a lady pilot! I'm your pilot today.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58I hadn't realised that.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00I have to say, I've wanted to fly an ATA Lady...
0:36:00 > 0:36:05Have you? Absolutely. This is a huge privilege. I'm glad about that, yes.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07So, it's fabulous. And I've brought my logbook
0:36:07 > 0:36:10and I would be very privileged if you would sign it.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12Oh, right, I'll sign your logbook for you, yes.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14No charge! No charge!
0:36:15 > 0:36:17After we've done the three circuits,
0:36:17 > 0:36:19we're then going to fly out
0:36:19 > 0:36:22and then I'm going to hand it over to you and say, "You have control."
0:36:22 > 0:36:25Well, not for long! THEY LAUGH
0:36:31 > 0:36:33How's that? That's OK.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36Not since the 1940s has Joy done this.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Wow, look at that.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40And there's no stopping her now.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48Right, here we go. It'll get quite noisy!
0:37:08 > 0:37:10A thousand feet above the Berkshire countryside,
0:37:10 > 0:37:13and it's Joy's chance to be a pilot again.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22Straight and level!
0:38:06 > 0:38:09AMANDA LAUGHS
0:38:11 > 0:38:14Well, I'm not allowed to say what her landing was like.
0:38:14 > 0:38:17I'm sure it was better than anything I could have done!
0:38:17 > 0:38:21I'd better say it was eight out of eight, shall I?
0:38:21 > 0:38:22AMANDA LAUGHS
0:38:22 > 0:38:25It was a great experience to be back in a Tiger Moth, yes.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29I wouldn't like to do it day after day after day at my age.
0:38:29 > 0:38:33But the experience of being back in an open cockpit aeroplane
0:38:33 > 0:38:35that I flew during the war -
0:38:35 > 0:38:38everybody wants to be reminded of when they were young,
0:38:38 > 0:38:41and flying today does that for me.
0:38:41 > 0:38:43It reminds me of when I was young.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52Fantastic - I think Joy rather enjoyed that, don't you?
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Well, of course, who wouldn't? Tiger Moth!
0:38:55 > 0:38:57You'd like to be up there, wouldn't you?
0:38:57 > 0:38:59Yes. I learned to spin in a Tiger Moth,
0:38:59 > 0:39:01you have to reverse the controls,
0:39:01 > 0:39:04but then it just will sort itself out on its own.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06Brilliant. Wonderful. Really wonderful.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Well, that's nearly all for today's programme, but to see us off
0:39:09 > 0:39:11in style, here are the Three Belles
0:39:11 > 0:39:13in all their '40s glory.
0:39:15 > 0:39:19REVEILLE STYLE TRUMPET INTRO
0:39:23 > 0:39:27MUSIC: "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B"
0:39:30 > 0:39:34# He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way
0:39:34 > 0:39:36# He had a boogie style that no-one else could play
0:39:36 > 0:39:39# He was the top man at his craft
0:39:39 > 0:39:42# But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft
0:39:42 > 0:39:45# He's in the army now, a-blowin' reveille
0:39:45 > 0:39:48# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B
0:39:48 > 0:39:50# They made him blow a bugle for his Uncle Sam
0:39:50 > 0:39:53# It really brought him down because he couldn't jam
0:39:53 > 0:39:56# The captain seemed to understand
0:39:56 > 0:39:58# Because the next day the cap' went out and drafted a band
0:39:58 > 0:40:01# And now the company jumps when he plays reveille
0:40:01 > 0:40:04# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B
0:40:04 > 0:40:07# A-toot, a-toot, a-toot-diddelyada-toot
0:40:07 > 0:40:10# He blows it eight-to-the-bar, in boogie rhythm
0:40:10 > 0:40:14# He can't blow a note unless the bass and guitar is playin' with him
0:40:14 > 0:40:18# He makes the company jump when he plays reveille
0:40:18 > 0:40:21# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B
0:40:21 > 0:40:25# He was some boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B
0:40:25 > 0:40:32# And when he plays boogie woogie bugle, he is busy as a buzzy bee
0:40:32 > 0:40:35# And when he plays he makes the company jump eight-to-the-bar
0:40:35 > 0:40:38# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B
0:40:38 > 0:40:40# Toot-toot toot-diddelyada toot-diddelyada, toot-toot
0:40:40 > 0:40:43# He blows it eight-to-the-bar
0:40:43 > 0:40:48# He can't blow a note if the bass and guitar isn't with him
0:40:48 > 0:40:51# Ah-ah-and the company jumps when he plays reveille
0:40:51 > 0:40:54# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B... #
0:40:54 > 0:40:57TRUMPET SOLO
0:41:11 > 0:41:14# He puts the boys to sleep with boogie every night
0:41:14 > 0:41:17# And wakes 'em up the same way in the early bright
0:41:17 > 0:41:19# They clap their hands and stamp their feet
0:41:19 > 0:41:22# Because they know how he plays when someone gives him a beat
0:41:22 > 0:41:24# He really shakes it up when he plays reveille
0:41:24 > 0:41:28# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B
0:41:28 > 0:41:38# Dat-da da-do-do da-dup
0:41:38 > 0:41:41# Ah-ah-and the company jumps when he plays reveille
0:41:41 > 0:41:44# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B. #
0:41:53 > 0:41:55The wonderful Three Belles.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57John, thank you so much for joining us today.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59Thank you, it's been terrific, I've really enjoyed it.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02That's it for today's programme. Coming up tomorrow...
0:42:04 > 0:42:07June Brown, who plays Dot Cotton in EastEnders,
0:42:07 > 0:42:10tells us her memories of the war.
0:42:14 > 0:42:1970 years since the end of the Second World War, we hear from those
0:42:19 > 0:42:22who remember what it was like when the nation celebrated.
0:42:23 > 0:42:27We ran into the street and everybody was cheering and yelling,
0:42:27 > 0:42:29it was heaven, absolute heaven.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35And a story of wartime sacrifice
0:42:35 > 0:42:40that bonded two families together for 100 years.
0:42:40 > 0:42:43My brother and I would not be here now, nor would my father have been,
0:42:43 > 0:42:49and I think that that is something which has a profound impact on you.
0:42:49 > 0:42:50Until then, from all of us
0:42:50 > 0:42:53here at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, goodbye.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Goodbye. Goodbye.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34# I put a spell on you
0:43:38 > 0:43:41# Cos you're mine