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Out of Ammo Over London, an RAF Pilot Collided With a German Bomber

Credits and sources for this video.

Images (3)

• Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 85 Squadron RAF, October 1940. CH1501
  Daventry B J (Mr), Royal Air Force official photographer. Public domain.
• Hawker Hurricanes - Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945 CH1503
  Daventry B J (Mr), Royal Air Force official photographer. Public domain.
• Victoria Station c.1880
  Author unknown. Public domain.

Films (1)

• Why We Fight 4 – The Battle of Britain (1943)
  "Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain" (1943), Frank Capra — US War Department / US National Archives (RG 111), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Sources (4)

• Wikipedia (en), "Battle of Britain Day"
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_Day
• Wikipedia (en), "Operation Sea Lion"
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion
• Stephen Bungay, The Most Dangerous Enemy (2000)
• Richard Overy, The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (2001)

Notes

Ray Holmes, the Dornier Do 17 and Victoria Station; the losses of 15 September 1940 (about 60 German aircraft, fewer than 30 British): Wikipedia, "Battle of Britain Day" (after S. Bungay, 2000, and R. Overy, 2001). Holmes's first combat report does not describe a deliberate ramming; that comes from his later accounts. Luftwaffe intelligence under Colonel Josef Schmid and the subtraction of claimed victories from RAF strength: S. Bungay, "The Most Dangerous Enemy" (2000). The "150 to 300 fighters" estimate is given by a single unsigned source: hence "by one account". Hitler's postponement of the invasion on 17 September 1940: Wikipedia, "Operation Sea Lion".

The aircraft on the maps and boards, the pilot and the parachute are drawings, not photographs. Routes and crosses on the maps are schematic. Maps: Natural Earth (public domain). Education only.