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England is the last island
standing in Europe.
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Come what may,
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England will break down!
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We all got under the stairs.
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I thought, "I'm gonna get burnt alive!"
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It's coming close. I can feel it.
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Keep your eyes peeled.
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If the British Air Force
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drops two, three,
or four thousand kilos of bombs,
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then we will drop 150,000,
180,000, 230,000,
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300,000 kilos of bombs,
or more, in one night.
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We will erase their cities!
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We will erase their cities!
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We wanted to force London
into an air-raid shelter.
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{\an8}And so we flew nothing
but London, London, London.
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Every 20 minutes, in waves.
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We believed that this
would bring England to its knees.
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We decided to go all out
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on the campaign
to open the Tubes for shelters.
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The Savoy hotel, that's our target.
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Now we're going to aggravate
the situation,
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to occupy the shelter of the Savoy hotel.
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All in all, 78 people turned up.
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We were now occupying a place
where we had no right to be.
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And then the police came in.
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A police inspector says,
"What do you intend to do here?"
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I said, "We don't really want this place.
We want the Tubes opened."
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The government announced
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that people would not be allowed
to use the Tubes for shelters.
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But the most remarkable development
of this strange war
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is the way in which Londoners
have taken charge
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and solved the deep-shelter problem.
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The Battle of London is now
nearly at the end of its first month,
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and London still stands.
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She has been sorely tried,
but her spirit is as good as ever.
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If the Germans had been figuring
on breaking the morale
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of the London population,
they have failed miserably.
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The Germans appear
to have changed their policy
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in their attacks on Great Britain
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in the hope of doing greater damage.
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The German leader hinted
that the war may last a long time.
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We were all aware
this was going to be a difficult mission.
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{\an8}Every day,
some of the crews didn't return.
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{\an8}The mood was serious.
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Before we took off, I was thinking,
"Will we get back safely?"
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"Will I be all right?"
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"Will I see my home again?"
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It was the thrill
of going somewhere different,
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doing something different.
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Even though my dad tried
to talk me out of it.
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My dad was one of these people
that want to keep you all together,
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and the only chance to grow up
was to get away.
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But no, I was determined.
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"I'm going away to do war work."
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They took us to the factory the next day.
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Everybody was on bikes.
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Hundreds, thousands of folks
cycling to work.
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The first sirens went.
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They said, "Oh, you've brought bad luck!
We're not wanting you here."
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They were machine-gunning the cyclists.
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And I said,
"What's happening to these people?"
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I saw people were falling off.
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{\an8}We were all just doing our duty,
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{\an8}and no one was looking to do anything
against ordinary people.
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This whole Coventry strategy,
the way it was to bring fear to Britain,
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was completely idiotic.
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When the raid started,
we knew it was gonna be bad.
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{\an8}We all got under the stairs.
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{\an8}Everybody said that was
the best place to be, the safest place.
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Suddenly, everything's black, and…
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there's fires.
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And I had this long hair,
and it had started to singe,
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and that was frightening.
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I thought, "I'm gonna get burnt alive!"
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We came back to Edinburgh
looking like refugees.
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I was a nervous wreck.
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And the first sirens that went
when I came back,
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I used to nearly go hysterical.
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Yesterday's German air attacks,
according to their High Command,
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were concentrated on Liverpool
to put Liverpool harbor out of commission.
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Churchill was telling us,
you know, how brave we all were.
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We would never surrender!
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The people in Liverpool, after that blitz,
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would have surrendered overnight!
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It's all right
for people in authority, isn't it?
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You know, who are sitting
down in their steel-lined dugouts.
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I was so full of hatred
that the Germans could do this to us,
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and we couldn't do anything about it.
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We were just people there
waiting to be killed.
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Between now and next Christmas,
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there stretches 12 months
of increasing toil and sacrifice.
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A few blocks away,
in the underground shelters,
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entire families
were celebrating Christmas Eve.
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England is the last island
standing in Europe.
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The hour will come
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that one of us will crack…
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…and it will not be Nazi Germany!
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A heavy incendiary bombing raid
has occurred
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in the City area.
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Control has been established
in St Paul's churchyard.
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This is London.
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Very quiet here.
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It's now almost one o'clock
in the morning.
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The wall of flames
which enclosed a large triangle
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in the main business section of London
has now been quenched.
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I watched the fires from a rooftop.
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It was not hard to imagine
how London must have looked 300 years ago
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when that historic Great Fire
raged across it.
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From where I was,
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one man seemed to throw
a sputtering firebomb off the roof
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with his gloved hand.
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It has now been proved
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that this form of blackmail
by murder and terrorism…
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so far from weakening the spirit
of the British nation,
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has only roused it
to a more intense and universal flame
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than was ever seen before.
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There's SOS on 207.
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It was a strange night.
People were not scared.
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A news vendor had his stand outside…
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and this bombing was going on.
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"Cup final result! Cup final result!"
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There was a prostitute
coming up from Piccadilly.
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She was singing,
and she had an umbrella up.
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There was no German air activity
last night.
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None today.
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It seems a long time
since we've heard the sirens.
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