Two key scenes from Guy Hamilton's film Battle of Britain (1969) that Hugh Dowding reviewed in 1968 before writing to Keith Park to assure him of fair treatment.

Leonard Mosely, author of the 1969 book Battle of Britain: The Making of a Film, documented that Dowding took a while to comment after the lights had come up on the first scene because Laurence Olivier's accurate portrayal actually had him weeping.

Dowding had also approved of the second office scene, of this extract, in which Trevor Howard portrayed Keith Park in his battle with Trafford Leigh-Mallory.

Hugh Dowding is often featured on this channel because of his Radar-God quote and links to his 11 July 1954 op-ed in the London Sunday Dispatch: I Believe in Flying Saucers. In apparent attempt to reduce the outing of this information, propaganda trolls target the video with truths, half-truths and outright falsehoods without answering the questions that would undermine their position.


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00:01 | This delay is an incredible piece of luck.
00:04 | I mean they roll up France, and then stop.
00:08 | They could have come right on.
00:10 | You know our latest intelligence is that Herr Hitler is sightseeing in France.
00:18 | (chuckle) Tis rather pleasant weather.
00:21 | Oh, I mean it! He's on holiday.
00:23 | I'm not complaining, Minister.
00:25 | No no no, seriously Dowding, the morale factor is vital.


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