1940: News - RAF fighter planes dispatched to Dunkirk

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News correspondent Ed Murrow reports on what may be "Britain's first line of defence", an airfield on the south-east coast from where RAF fighter planes are dispatched to Dunkirk. He talks to some of the pilots as they return, one of whom survived extreme circumstances earlier in the day.

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 2 June 1940.

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