the royal air force held onto its last reserves. nt children out of the city. -- they sent children out of the city. type -- they tightened air raid parsons and is stationed more airplane spotters. favor hearst firefighters and moved into bomb shelters -- rehearsed firefighters and moved into bomb shelters. they carried on. the first blow came on september 7. [sirens] >> planes are coming in. >> take cover in the basement. please do not run, but keep moving. third-floor, clear. >> second floor, clear. >> first-floor, clear. 375 german when planes came rolling up the thames river, the battle of britain became the battle of london. thegermans broke through charge of hurricanes and spitfires and went to meet them. this was savage destruction. [bombs exploding] engines] bombs fell alike on the homes of the poor and rich. hospitals, shops, churches. days, the not these were to drop everything on the city of london. explosives --s of tens of explosives. torpedoes sheared away whole buildings. the war of the man in the street let out. ♪ he

and i should be proud that he was serving the queen in the royal air force. that's a punishment has siblings who were born in the u.k. have never faced problems with their status but sharon has been told she is not british on the grounds that she was not born within the nation's boundaries sharon believes she has rights to citizenship because of her father's service there's a document called the queen's rules and regulations of the armed forces and this control is everything you did wasn't as an army personnel or wherever in the world you are and it says in black and white any children children should not suffer from their citizenship nationality problems anything when they were born they should be treated as born on british soil if they want the home office said inaccurate legislation summary of legislation so history in the queen's document is wrong one of the girls said well i'm not nationality trained i said so well away you dealing with me but you give me a british but at the cricket so you have me on your numbers that i was born in britain but then i'm

phase one, knock out the royal air force and its bases, control of the air and sea lanes across the channelstroy communication and transport lines. above all, get command of the air. phase 2, pulverize the coastline with dive bombers. drop parachute troops to take over the air feeleds and establish beach heads. phase three, actual invasion. pour the german pansers across in high-speed brarges, under an umbrella of protecting fighter planes. then send spearheads of armed might to divide, surround, destroy all opposition. that's all there was to it. conquer brifpblet force the surrender of the british fleet. then with the combined sea power of germany, britain, italy, france and japan, he could control the seas and tell us where to head in. they were singing as they awaited the word from hitler. here for weeks, all the supplies and weapons of the nazi war machine had been turned toward britain. the jaws of the nazi whale were sent to follow joana. >> what about jonah? how was he doing? well, britain also had an taxpayer but it was an army dragged from the sea at dunkirk. an army without weapo

i served 26 years in the royal air force and i'm now an artist. that release, being able to put down on paper that may b traumatic to talk about, it still causes emotion now, but it's been able to recognize it. i think back then i couldn't even recognize it. i was s f numbm coming back. troirp once discharged from the military and back to their , famili isolation can kick in, so channing trauma through talent is helping some veterans just. >> i'm kevin preston, i served withhe guards. i found it very difficult when i left.he atime i hit the drink really hard. i'm in constant pain becauseou have had fr spine operations on myack and one on my neck and i also suffered a stroke. but when i'm painting, sometimes it takes my mind off it a i tend to forget about it. eporter: it's not just visual art. it's poetry as well. >> one brief moment in history is where this began- reporter: it's healing through linger.ut the memories >> you're precious to me like a bright shining pearl. i'm never forget you, my little ko girl. reporter: colleen harris, "bbc news.

i served 26 years in the royal air force, and i'm now an artist.paper something that may be traumatic to talk about — i mean, it still causes emotion now, but it's being able to recognise it. and i think, back then, i couldn't even recognise it. i was so numb from coming back. 0nce discharged from the military and back to their families, isolation can kick in, so channelling trauma through talent is helping some veterans to adjust. i'm kevin preston. i served with the 1st battalion coldstream guards. i found it very difficult when i left. i couldn't handle civilian life at the time, and i hit the drink really hard. i'm in constant pain, ‘cause i've had four spinal operations on my back, and i've had one on my neck, and i also suffered a stroke. but when i'm painting, sometimes it takes my mind off it, and i tend to forget about it. it is notjust visual art, it is poetry as well. 0ne brief moment in history is where this began... for corporal mark beckham, it is healing through words, but the memories linger. you're precious to me, like a bright, sh

i served 26 years in the royal air force and i am now an artist.tic to talk about, i mean, it still causes emotion now, but it's being able to recognise it, and i think back then i couldn't even recognise it. i was so numb from coming back. once discharged from the military and back to their families, isolation can kick in, so challenging trauma through talent is helping some veterans to adjust. i'm kevin preston. i served with the 1st battalion coldstream guards. i found it very difficult when i left. i couldn't handle civilian life at the time, and i hit the drink really hard. i'm in constant pain, because i've had four spinal operations on my back and one on my neck, and i also suffered a stroke, but when i'm painting sometimes it takes my mind off it and i tend to forget about it. it's notjust visual art. it's poetry as well. one brief moment in history is where this began. for corporal mark beckham, it's healing through words, but the memories linger. you are precious to me like a bright, shining pearl. i'll never forget you, my little kosovo

and i should be proud that he was serving the queen in the royal air force. that's a punishment has siblings who were born in the u.k. have never faced problems with their status but sharon has been told she is not british on the grounds that she was not born within the nation's boundaries sharon believes she has rights to citizenship because of her father's service there's a document called the queen's rules and regulations of the armed forces and this control is everything you do as an as an army personnel wherever in the world you are and it says in black and white any children children should not suffer from their citizenship nationality problems anything were when they were born they should be treated as born on british soil if there was one the home office said that some inaccurate legislation summary of legislation so history in the queen's document is wrong one of the girls said well i'm not nationality trained i said so where where you dealing with me but you give me a british but at the cricket so you have me on your numbers that i was born in brita

i served 26 years in the royal air force and i am now an artist.ic to talk about, i mean, it still causes emotion now, but it's being able to recognise it. i think, back then, i couldn't even recognise it. i was so numb from coming back. once discharged from the military and back to their families, isolation can kick in, so channelling trauma through talent is helping some veterans to adjust. i'm kevin preston. i served with the 1st battalion coldstream guards. i found it very difficult when i left. i couldn't handle civilian life at the time, and i hit the drink really hard. i'm in constant pain, because i've had four spinal operations on my back and one on my neck, and i also suffered a stroke. but when i'm painting, sometimes it takes my mind off it and i tend to forget about it. it's notjust visual art. it's poetry as well. one brief moment in history is where this began. for corporal mark beckham, it's healing through words, but the memories linger. you are precious to me, like a bright, shining pearl. i'll neverforget you, my little kosovo gi

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this year, our world-famous royal air force celebrates its 100 birthday. far from dwelling on the glory years of the spitfire or lancaster bomber. we have unveiled a new air strategy, to build the next generation of tempest fighters. no wonder our great nations continue to push the boundaries of innovation, working on insectlike uab's to disrupt and constrain activity. in may, it was my privilege to host a meeting between u.s. and u.k. innovation experts, designed to strengthen cooperation further. we are now running a u.k.-u.s. funded competition, seeking technologies to destroy i.e.d.'s and agents in challenging environments. we are investigating ways to transform the famously convoluted acquisition process leaving the value of death between procurement. novely developing technologies and date of the art software, developing a cutting-edge chemical weapons defense center. so, the united kingdom is ready, willing, and able to act when necessary. our modernizing defense program will make sure that you continue that you can continue to rely on us far into th

this year our world famous royal air force celebrated its 100th birthday. far from dwelling on the glory years of the fighter or the lancaster bomber, we have unveiled a new combat air strategy to build the next generation of fighters. no wonder today our great nations together continue pushing the boundaries of innovation, working on robots that can brave the last mile of the battlefield, on cyber tools to deter, disrupt and constrain malicious activity. in may, it was my privilege to host a meeting between u.s. and u.k. innovation experts, designed to strengthen our cooperation still further. we're now running a u.k. u.s. funded competition, seeking innovative technologies to destroy chemical and biological munitions, ied's, and bulk agents in challenging environments. we're investigating new ways to transform the famously convoluted acquisition process, leaping between research and procurement, rapidly developing technologies and state of the art software and developing a cutting-edge chemical weapons defense center. so the united kingdom is ready, willin

edgar had been in the royal air force in england according to roy's family.hen he found it we don't know. but the family says it was passed down two more generations after his death. his granddaughter, diane of scotland, located roy's family on the internet thinking he would be long deceased by now. >> she was shocked. and the thing she was hoping for is that she didn't know her grandfather because he passed away a few decades ago. so she was hoping my dad somehow had known her grandfather. but that wasn't the story. >> reporter: roy still gets around pretty well. he lives in arbor terrace a senior living community in peachtree city and he will celebrate his 101st birthday in december. inside that wallet was roy's driver's license. he had just gotten out of the navy so his address was the uss phoenix, not much help in returning the wallet. >> we're thankful to this family for getting the documents from the wallet back to us. >> i cannot imagine why somebody kept that wallet three generations. i'm going to keep it as a keepsake. >> reporter: roy says he has ne

i also think the army air forces and royal air force, as well, were pretty active behind the lines, preventing the germans from getting to the front in the first place. >> that's a debate that goes on to the present day is the best thing to interdict behind the lines or provide close air support. >> no doubt it makes you feel better to see friendly aircraft flying overhead. no doubt. it makes you feel good. good for morale. good for performance, a net plus, something everybody wants. >> sorry -- question from mike who's watching online. wouldn't a squad the size depicted in the film be led by a sergeant or lieutenant rather than a captain? were there special officers, non-airborne, who conducted special missions behind the front lines? so two questions -- one the squad and the officer, secondly, other special operations or special forces behind the lines. >> yeah. it's a good question. and the second question first, there definitely would have been special missions. most famous one, perhaps the most notorious in the european theater would be patton's decision to launch task force bomb to rescu

of brothers" through parachute ground school at the raf's number one parachute school at the royal air force base. and i asked if he wanted to come and see that. he said, no, i don't. it's your unit. get it done. so i kept trying to get him involved and he wouldn't be. as it turned out later, it was just too tough on him. he didn't want to re-create seeing that. i did find out long after that he had observed one day of training without me knowing it, and it was some sort of assault on a fortified position or something. and the only time i ever discovered that he knew anything about it was when he gave me a book, and he inscribed on the front to captain dale dye and, colonel sink would have been proud. and that was enough for me. and i didn't -- if you had a second part of that question, i didn't hear it because you need to speak up, son. >> a front row to your left, please. >> it seems to me that many of the war depictions today and particularly vietnam war poetry is termed as victimization. soldier as the victim. i wonder if you can comment on the change between, say, 12:00 high or even "pr

when you think about the battle op amiens, the tactics used involving the royal air force which had only crated, the tanks, the cavalry, the artillery coming together, the multi tactic use of them, tactics that are used to this very day. good point. three years before, four years before, at a battle, generals were riding round on horse, infantry were marching along, artillery were looking at people having a pop at them. only four years later they are going, they are using sound ranging equipment, wirelesses, and radios in the place, they are using all sorts of new technology, that it looks frankly, much more like today's wa rfa re frankly, much more like today's warfare 100 years later. dan snow, thank you forjoining us. that is it from us here in amiens. it is extraordinary to think of the battles that were rages around this city, a century ago today. after four years of trench warfare and stalemate along the western front, finally, there was a glimmer of hope that this brutal war that had claimed so many millions of lives could be coming to an end. we will leave you now with some of th

he was widely called the mass murder, the bbc reported on the activities of the royal british air force even got leaflets calling him the lord with the syringe. engaged to her sister, paula and you can see the resemblance. hitler greatly disapproved of the match. we don't know why. perhaps he didn't want her sister mary and a mass murderer, [laughter] that the people speculate. he had apprehended during a trip to berlin in 1840 and dispatched to the eastern seafront which is an effective way to get rid of an undesirable brother-in-law. so not only to asperger associate with the top leaders, he advocated the transfer of the most disabled children. this is a talk he gave been vienna published in the munich weekly. fraught difficult cases, only a long and continuous observation is proper like those carried out at mayo clinic or the reformatory. asperger followed his own advice. he transferred children in numerous capacities working for the public health office in working forward the deal schools and for one example, the medical expert for the city that evaluated from one care facility ende

he is a royal air force veteran. he flies back.millions ignore them. brian: canada is feeling pressure. we're cracking down. you guys have people stream to the canadian border. >> which this, just tin trudeau, the week of president trump's inauguration when he introduced the so-called muslim, so-called travel ban, he did this virtue signaling, we welcome, everyone. the planet took justin up at his word and have overwhelmed -- the montreal olympic system where you know, caitlyn jenner became the first woman to win the decathalon in 1976 or whatever it was, and -- steve: bruce jenner. >> bruce jenner back then. brian: when he was a man. >> won the decathalon, that olympic stadium is now basically a refugee center, for refugees who overwhelmed the system. brian: created in 1976, you are hosting tucker tonight. you have an option to use the video. this is the individual very. >> the putine one. brian: whoa. steve: what do you like so much about it? he was so far away or spills food or just takes a header? >> as una simulated foreigner,

air vice marshall garry tunnicliffe. hisjob is to liaise between the royal family and the british armed forces. a big round of applause from the public gathered outside. there are 2,000 people inside the cathedral but there are 1,000 who have been allowed to stand here in front of it, to watch the proceedings. and prince william is no stranger to these world war i remembrance event, he has attended a large number over the last four year, he was at the first in 2014 as well as events as the somme, at passchendaele. greeted by florence pa rly. and he has been to a number of these events as i say, all of them marking

of brothers" through parachute ground school at the raf's number one parachute school at royal norton air force base. i asked if he wanted to come and see that and he said, "no, i don't, it is your unit, get it done." so i kept trying to get him involved and he wouldn't be, and as it turned out later it was just too tough on him. he didn't want to recreate seeing that. i did find out long after that he had observed one day of training without me knowing it, and it was some sort of assault on a fortified position or something, and the only time i ever discovered that he knew anything about it was when he gave me a book and i had described it on the front to captain dale dye. all he said was, colonel sink would have been proud. that was enough for me. i didn't -- if you had a second part of the question i didn't hear it, baugh you neecause you speak up, son. >> front row to your left, please. >> it seems to me that many of the war depictions today, and particularly vietnam war poetry, has turned the victimization, the soldiers the victim. i wonder if you could comment when the change between, say

royal norwegian troops stopped .ne column [gunfire] narrator: so the germans brought up their bombers. [explosion] [explosions] >> the norwegians were forced to flee to the north under constant unopposed air attacks. , it was here where an american military attache was killed, the first american soldier to lose his life in this war. meanwhile, the nazis have spread all over the country. small patrols occupied every strategic village. parachute troops landed high in the mountains. [explosion] unopposed bombing raids sent defenseless civilians fleeing in starved terror. [explosions continue] [sirens] narrator: they hadn't wanted war. they had done everything to avoid it. hoping they could escape the nazi scourge, they compromised and tragically failed to unite with the other democracies. now they face the scourge defenseless and alone. before the allies could come to their aid, the germans were in control of all principal ports. andrdless, british, french, polish contingents made several landings along the norwegian coast. they landed forces to the north and south and attempted to encircle the city under constant , energy, and almost entirely unopposed air attack. [explosions] narrator: whi

air vice marshall garry tunnicliffe. hisjob is to liaise between the royal family and the british armed forces.f applause from the public gathered outside. there are 2,000 people inside the cathedral but there are 1,000 who have been allowed to stand here in front of it, to watch the proceedings. and prince william is no stranger to these world war i remembrance event, he has attended a large number over the last four year, he was at the first in 2014 as well as events as the somme, at passchendaele. greeted by florence pa rly. and he has been to a number of these events as i say, all of them marking huge losses of british life. this has a different feel to it. it does. it is interesting to hear the french clapping there. the people talk about antagonism but this was french and british forces working perfect harmony. huge successful stop the french further south and the british working together. and the affection in this part of northern france for the british, bad memory of 100 years ago is not that far gone. more applause from the crowd as the duke of cambridge meets the bishop of amiens. and