bravo! intensely realistic. what's marvelous opportunity to witness such action! and to know that was only a small portion of the control room! what fantastic concentration it took to manage that stressful, constant energy. hooray! cheers! thanks to the actual participants service and the re-enactment professionals.....all truly dedicated!
When the controllers were ordering a general scramble of all remaining aircraft and I realized that ALL reserves were just committed; even though I knew this was just a simulation, the hair on the back.of my neck still stood up...
... I'm American and I don't know if I could of sat there- I'd start crying. I hate NAZIs and I know I'm very lucky to have been born IN the U.S.A.- In the early 80's- and yet, every single damned time I know my life bad, THIS kind of room is what I think of, with various different types and motivations like each one of those good British women moving those sticks around on the map, as I start my day, or have an insane work shift or when I'm about to do college homework. With LOVE for the British, From an American, in the State of Arizona.
My word...........It's like a big monopoly board....but people are dying, and suffering, yet in this chaos these operators had to hold on to their wits and composure knowing the balance was on that board. The pilots had to depend on this fragile dance on the board. They do not called those folks the greatest generation for nothing...
Somthing not mentioned here is the fact that all communication with the Chain Home Radar stations, observer core observers and the various air fields was done by telephone not radio which meant it couldnt be overheard by German radio operators
I couldn't understand the introduction. Is this supposed to be happening in Fighter Command HQ, Uxbridge, or is this a sector station in 11 Group? The actors all have their lines down cold. Also, who are the women talking to? Were all the sector stations hearing everything at the same time from Fighter Command HQ?
It's going to be totally meaningless to anyone who doesn't understand the context. If you had a kid and took them to watch a bunch of WWII movies, involving the RAF, they would probably be all over this, as they would realise all the blocks are units of planes. The kid is also positioned directly behind one of the women giving the demonstration and it looks like his head is so low (compared to the table) that he can not actually see anything they are moving around. He might not even be able to tell what part of the table is supposed to be France. If he was upstairs on a balcony looking down, he could see the things that the camera can see.
On the Bishop Otter campus of Chichester university. The room it was in (now has a lecture theatre above) had been the control room for the RAF fighters on the south coast, in the latter part of WW2.
bravo! intensely realistic. what's marvelous opportunity to witness such action! and to know that was only a small portion of the control room! what fantastic concentration it took to manage that stressful, constant energy. hooray! cheers! thanks to the actual participants service and the re-enactment professionals.....all truly dedicated!
OMG this really brings it home what it must have been like during those desperate days. Brilliant re-enactment and so realistic.
I was twenty when I joined the Army. I would have loved to have seem a bunch of young women and men watching this wonderful re-enactment.
Awesome... you folks did an absolutely phenomenal job!
How this was done back then just fantastic
Dowding's brainchild that saved the nation.
"Winston would pick on a day like this to come."
Air Vice Marshall Park : Reserves? NONE sir...
fascinating glance into the past
Absolutely brilliant, really caught the realism
When the controllers were ordering a general scramble of all remaining aircraft and I realized that ALL reserves were just committed; even though I knew this was just a simulation, the hair on the back.of my neck still stood up...
well done looked very authentic to me
The unseen and unsung heart of the Dowding system. I doubt we could have succeeded without them.
That was great work, thank you! 👍🏻
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I'm American and I don't know if I could of sat there- I'd start crying. I hate NAZIs and I know I'm very lucky to have been born IN the U.S.A.-
In the early 80's-
and yet, every single damned time I know my life bad, THIS kind of room is what I think of, with various different types and motivations like each one of those good British women moving those sticks around on the map, as I start my day, or have an insane work shift or when I'm about to do college homework.
With LOVE for the British,
From an American, in the State of Arizona.
Then never vote dem, democrat socialism is identical to Nazi socialism.
@@solomonkane102 N@zis were fascists. BTW what socialist policies have the democrats implemented ?
@@tomservo5007 all of them
At 0:46 I could hear the bad to the bone piano sound playing in the background
Excellent!
My word...........It's like a big monopoly board....but people are dying, and suffering, yet in this chaos these operators had to hold on to their wits and composure knowing the balance was on that board. The pilots had to depend on this fragile dance on the board. They do not called those folks the greatest generation for nothing...
Is everything up?
The lot, sir!
Reverses?
Non, sir!
That's what I've told the Prime Minister!
thankyou for sharing this
That kid was so bored while the rest loved it!
Brilliant.
Somthing not mentioned here is the fact that all communication with the Chain Home Radar stations, observer core observers and the various air fields was done by telephone not radio which meant it couldnt be overheard by German radio operators
from where were the staff receiving updates on the flight positions of the aircraft on both sides? how frequently were the updates?
From radar stations on the coast and spotters both on the coast and high spots such as buildings.
Each color corisponds to a colored 10 min segment on a clock in the room.
@@solomonkane102 believe it was 5 not 10 minutes
How they did this back then amazing!
Fascinating. Are there any books or anything else that deals with this? Thanks.
Kudos to British ingenuity
They should hook the phone lines up to a computer with voice cuts so any raid could be simulated.
And a speaker of the pilots engaging!
Which markers are for enemy planes?
The markers with the yellow H
H for Hostiles!
I couldn't understand the introduction. Is this supposed to be happening in Fighter Command HQ, Uxbridge, or is this a sector station in 11 Group? The actors all have their lines down cold. Also, who are the women talking to? Were all the sector stations hearing everything at the same time from Fighter Command HQ?
I see the kid is taking no notice at all, he should, he might learn something
It's going to be totally meaningless to anyone who doesn't understand the context.
If you had a kid and took them to watch a bunch of WWII movies, involving the RAF, they would probably be all over this, as they would realise all the blocks are units of planes.
The kid is also positioned directly behind one of the women giving the demonstration and it looks like his head is so low (compared to the table) that he can not actually see anything they are moving around. He might not even be able to tell what part of the table is supposed to be France. If he was upstairs on a balcony looking down, he could see the things that the camera can see.
@@DavidShepheard That and kids today have the attention span of a newt and most likely zero interest in finding out what this was about.
A classic example of brains over brawn.
Neat
This is the new ASMR to me.
The Squadron leader would not say Flight to fli
Where was this filmed?
On the Bishop Otter campus of Chichester university.
The room it was in (now has a lecture theatre above) had been the control room for the RAF fighters on the south coast, in the latter part of WW2.
Thank you, that has been most informative and useful for a project I am working on.
Reserves?........none sir. Winston to Park
Would´ve been way funnier if they just ran around panicking and screaming "oh my god, the Germans mop the floor with our troups, we all dieeeeee"