Don't forget, the targets are my airfields, Leigh-Mallory. And you're not getting fifty....
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Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory:
[protesting to Dowding]
We were up, sir, trying to knock out the enemy air mass. It takes time to assemble forty or fifty aircraft at... Air Vice Marshal Keith Park:
[interrupting]
It takes far too long! By the time your "Big Wing" is up, the enemies have already hit their targets and are on their way home. Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory:
All that matters is to shoot them down in large numbers. I'd rather destroy fifty after they've hit their targets than ten before. Air Vice Marshal Keith Park:
Don't forget, the targets are my airfields, Leigh-Mallory. And you're not getting fifty. You're not even getting ten!
[protesting to Dowding]
We were up, sir, trying to knock out the enemy air mass. It takes time to assemble forty or fifty aircraft at... Air Vice Marshal Keith Park:
[interrupting]
It takes far too long! By the time your "Big Wing" is up, the enemies have already hit their targets and are on their way home. Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory:
All that matters is to shoot them down in large numbers. I'd rather destroy fifty after they've hit their targets than ten before. Air Vice Marshal Keith Park:
Don't forget, the targets are my airfields, Leigh-Mallory. And you're not getting fifty. You're not even getting ten!
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We were up sir trying to knock out the enemy en masse
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It takes time to assemble 40 or 50 aircraft at 15 000 feet
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It takes far too long By the time your Big Wing is up
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the enemy have hit their targets and are on their way home
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All that matters is to shoot them down in large numbers
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I'd rather destroy 50 after they've hit their targets than 1 0 before
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Don't forget the targets are my airfields Leigh Mallory
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And you're not getting 50 you're not even getting 1 0
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Movie Summary
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
Actors
Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-mallory
Air Vice Marshal Keith Park
