Hero who was killed in action fighting for another country. Im 09 oliver north. Coming to you in england. He was one of a handful of american pilots who defied the neutrality laws in the United States to join the Royal Air Force during a desperate battle. With this island nations last line of defense. Flying spit fires and hurricane through narrow runways across southern england, swarmed into the air to take on the enemy and deadly epic combat. Come along with war stories for a thrilling ride with the yanks and the raf. Summer 1940 all of Continental Europe is in hitlers iron first. Britain is the lone hold out against the nazis. In the skies over england, the Royal Air Force battles the germans in a fight to the death. It was really britain against the world in a way that hasnt happened before. Everybody knew they were fighting for the survival of that country. Alex care shaw spent three years researching the americans who fought in the battle of britain for his book. It came down to 22yearold guys going up and fighting and dying day after day, week after week. Our hearts go out to the Fighter Pilots whose brilliants actions. 1940 british Prime MinisterWinston Churchill pays tribute to the men of the raf with these stirs words. Who were put . The smallest number of men ever to determine a major battle in world history. Just 2,500 pilots flew with the raf. And seven of the few were americans. One was a 29yearold twotime olympics champion named billy fisk. Billy, a wonderful, romantic glamorous character. You couldnt have made this guy up. The son of a wealthy chicago banker. He was born into the life of privilege. When his family moved to france in 1924, billy soon discovered a lifelong and dangerous passion speed. Would he be classified as a daredevil . He lot offed speed but i think he wasnt a real daredevil. Sensible daredevil. Patricia is billys niece. How did he end up a bob sledder . They used to go over in the winter and he broke all kinds of records. He was 16 when he won the gold med tal for the usa on the bobsled. Undisputed greatest bobsled champion of all time. Won a second gold medal in 1932. Like a lot of other young men he became ennam orred with a new kind of thrill. The 1930s were the golden age of flight. The notion of being a pilot was a great fantasy. This was a time of lindbergh was a national hero. Young men wanted to become a pilot. I wanted to learn to fly. Steve was born in athens, greece, on 10, november, 1919. When i was about 13 i saw the Greek Air Force flying over head on my way to school. He did some of the most wonderful acrobatics i have ever seen. I said to myself when i grow up im going to be become a na i had a friend a pilot in world war i. He told me, okay, ill take you for a ride but you never must let your dad know you were in an airplane. In 1929 bill edwards got his first taste of flying. There was no looking back. I think i was 11 at the time. He let you touch the control . Yeah. I got to play with it. Absolutely. It was wonderful. The wonders of flight made the aircraft an obvious weapon of war. World war to the dog fight. And the legend of the red baron. The Second World War showed how powerful a weapon the airplane could be. Adolf hitler recognized that during the 30s and built an air force that none of his future enemies could imagine. The arming of the third riech violated the treaty of versailles and done in secret. In february of 36 they hosted the olympics but billy fisk wasnt there. He wouldnt participate in the 36 olympics because it would have been in berlin and he cant stand hitler. The one i like to believe. I think most people like to believe he didnt want to go there because he was antinazi. The other theory is that the American Community didnt allow to pick his team and do what he wanted. Instead of competing he remained busy. He was a pilot while working to fly where he worked in hollywood where he financed a few films including white heat. He vently would take a job at his fathers new York Investment firm. In 1938 as europe teetered on the brink of war. He joined his family for a vacation in france. For patricia it was the last time she would see her uncle alive. I was around eight. He took us down and he built a bonfire in the woods and he told us ghost stories so we got scared to death. As he and his family enjoyed their time in europe 18yearold steve departed greece for america with 8 and a dream of becoming a pilot. I got a job on a freighter and we left for baltimore. He managed to buy a train ticket to new york city. I was crying like a baby who lost his mother. I didnt know where to go. I was amazed, you know, to see the skyscrapers that i was always dreaming about. He was lucky in times square. He heard two men debating in greek. I saw it in athens. In athens . What are you doing here . I told them what i had done. And they asked me if i had a place to go. I said no, i dont know anybody. I dont know where to go. They took me to their home in brooklyn and two days later, one of the men got me a job at the bakery. I taught myself the english language. Six months later, i began to take flying lessons. By the time britain declared war on germany in of september 1939 billy quit his job and was on a ship heading for england. He was determined to be the First American to join the raf. He loved england. He had gone to cambridge. He had friends there. He married a beautiful english woman. He would do anything to help england defend itself. When war stories returns billy helps take on the germans in the legendary battle of britain. Britain. The wings of the remember here at ally, nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Whos with me . Im in. Im in. Im in. Im in. One, two, wait, wait. Wait wheres tina . Doing the hand thing . Yep we are all in for our customers. 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It was a very sternly built preacher. I appreciate that. You have a very solid punch. In 1940 military historian experienced the battle of britain as a schoolboy living outside london. He would grow up to be a Royal Air Force fighter pilot. They were sure they would be able to push the raf out of the way. The first phase of the battle was started on the 10th of july when they started attacking conv convoys. Hitlers air force commanded by herman was ordered to destroy the raf. With their superiority the germans could launch operation sea lion, the invasion of britain. The raf was ordered not to engage the more experienced germans. The commander in chief wasnt interested. He wasnt about to get into a battle. So he had actually instructed raf fighter squad rons not to engage in combat unless we were being attacked. A frustrated hitler realized tactics werent working. By that time hiterer lost patience. It was organized. 13th of august when the offensive against the main line would begin. By eagle day billy had been 601 squad ron for a month. 601 was nicknamed the millionaires squadron. So many of them came from money. Speeding to the attack. Back in america the rafs exploit were making news and inspiring adventurous young men. You would see movie tone. Do you remember see battle of britain stuff . Yes. They engaged the enemy in air battle. Join the raf. My instructor in new jersey he told me one day do you want to fight the germans . I said i want to kill them. How about joining the Royal Air Force . It would be more than a year before edwards got to england. During that summer of 1940, seven americans were already helping the raf. What prompted most of them to want to go to serve . They were obsessed with flying. They wanted to do their part. And this was an opportunity to do that. And of course, they were violating certain law. Absolutely. Donahue joined the raf in the july of 1940 just before the battle of britain. He committed treason basically. Saint charles, minnesotan was one of those. He was a devote catholic who cherished flight. He sent a letter to his parents im going fight hitler in his backyard before i have to do so in my own back yard. Men like donahue were needed. By august of 1940 they were down to 12 guys wit had any experience leading men in the air. At lunchtime on 16, august billy and the pilots of 601 scrambled to intercept another array. The target . Their home. Billy went up and tried to shoot down bombers that come over to attack their air base. Air bombers dove out of the sun filling ground crew and destroying aircraft. The millionaires and the hurricanes struggled to drive off the enemy. On the ground, 20yearold medical orderly Jeffrey Faulkner was on duty when the phone rang. We had a call from the control a plane was in distress. We sent an ambulance who picked the pilot up. Its thought that a bullet may have hit his reserve fuel tank and that exploded. We could see the plane but we suddenly realized that we were, in fact, being bombed. We proceeded to the aircraft watched the bombing that was going on. How did he manage to bring the plane back and land was anybodys guess. It was remarkable feat. The wings of the aircraft. He was badly burned. And the cockpit in which he was sitting was black with fire damage. He looked back at the aircraft and said something. Billy was piloting a hurricane fighter just like this one here at the airfield dont let dust and allergens get between you and lifes beautiful moments. Flonase gives you more complete allergy relief. Most allergy pills only control one inflammatory substance. Flonase controls 6. And six is greater than one. Flonase changes everything. The full value of your totaled new car. The guy says, you picked the wrong insurance plan. No, i picked the wrong insurance company. With new car replacement™, well replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. Liberty mutual insurance. 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Early the next morning his heart gave in. He basically died of shock. Billy was only 29 years old. I my mother was very sad. She did say it was maybe a blessin blessing. He was taken to carried by his officers. Stars and stripes was draped over the coffin. A wreath was sent by Winston Churchill. I know, that for a fact. I signed for it. It had a caption on it. I cant quite remember what it said, it was a deep regret. Signed Winston Churchill. Churchill was aware of all the americans that flew through the battle of britain. He saw them as potentially very important propaganda figures. At this time, churchill is doing everything he can to try to convince america to come in and help us. With britain losing fasters faster thanty can be replaced they turned up the head on raf. They concentrate order the major raf fighter in southeast london. With 300 planes dried and more than 140 pilots dead or missing death and exhaustion were taking a heavy toll. There was no end in site. One skraud ron billy b to. There was not one guy left alive. They were decimated. The americans came over to britain in the summer of 1940. With billy dead, art and five other americans were left in the raks of the raf. Before joining the Royal Air Force, three of those pilots had been so desperate to get in the fight they tried to fly with the french before france fell to the nazis in june of 1940. They looked like three musketeers. The mad russian, swarmy, womenizing. Very charismatic. Eugene who was he came from california. Grow up on the wrong side of the tracks. Shorty, the shortest pilot to fly 410 he would run to a plane with a cushion under each arm. They were welcomed with open arms. They were intensely popular. They fought with all the major air battles during the summer of 1914. 7, september, 1940 the raf finally gets a break. In retaliation for an attack on berlin they order an allout assault on london. The blitz is on. Huge because once they stopped attacking the raf it gave the raf the chance to recover. When they attacked london, the pilots were shocked that so many spit fires and hurricanes came up to meet them. Among the swarm of raf pilots took on on balgt battle of britain day. They lost so many planes on the 15th of september that the german high command decided they should call off the planned invasion of britain. It wasnt the end of the destruction for london, of course. There were other cities in the u. K. Doing a lot of damage and killing a lot of people. It was clear the invasion was over. Hollywood gets into the act hollywood gets into the act with two of the biggest what is success . Hollywood gets into the act with two of the biggest is it a professor who never stops being a student . Is it a caregiver determined to take care of her own . Or is it a lifetime of work that blazes the path to your passions . Your personal success takes a Financial Partner who values it as much as you do. 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By the fall, the rafs biggest problem replacements for the hundreds of pilots killed and wounded. Colonel Charles Sweeney faced a similar problem 25 years earlier. He was active in starting up the squad ron which was a squadron of american volunteers who went to fly for the french. His idea was to have the similar kind of skquad rons. He went and got it aproved. Retired air force general taught military history at the u. S. Air force academy. His as if nation with the americans and the raf inspired two books. Euge eugene, vernon all became members of 71 squadron. The first of the allamerican eagle squad rons. The first squadron was followed by two others. 121, 133. And they have americans coming over there. There was an over recruiting drive conducted here in the United States. A group called clayton Night Committee recruited several thousand americans. He was a pilot in world war i. His group, which was financed by the marines would take a suite in the best hotel in major cities and then clan destinely put the word out to airports where all the guys were flying and come get a job flying. Many of these guys saw this as the opportunity of a lifetime. Had you heard anything about the british recruiting americans to come fly for them . Word went around they were recruiting in a hotel in oakland. 21yearold San Francisco native james gray was a member of the california flying club when he heard about the recruitment drive. I had about 100 hours at that time. And they said if you had about that amount of time they would take you. So i signed up. I always dreamt about being a fighter pilot. California born 19yearold John Campbell had been a pilot since high school. The little guy with mustache started war for my benefit. I was able to do what i dreamt about. I went to the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel where they sent me out at glendale. 22yearold steve was working in a plainfield new jersey hotel that got the pilots license when he heard the raf was looking for aviato aviators. He wasted no time getting to the recruitment office. When i joined the raf i had to visit my boss, a german fellow. I went to his office and said i have to tell you i have joined the Royal Air Force and im going to england to fight the germans. He was, of course, surprised. Steve, he said and i want you to go there and if y. In california 22yearold bill edwards couldnt get to the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel fast enough to sign up for the raf. Did anybody tell you that what youre doing could be perceived as against the law the neutrality act . We didnt pay much attention to it. We could care less about it. We were interested in flying. They never had to take a physical. They had to have a acceptable u. S. Pilots physical. When they were accepted, they would be sent to one of four base bases which were run by the british in the u. S. They trained for three months at the u. S. Bases. To be avoid being caught the raf pilots took a train too canada to board a ship for i think land. Was there any questions when you crossed the canadian border. As we were just about to cross the frontier into canada, the immigration came in checking everybody. I said to myself, holy mackerel, here i am. No papers. And i thought the guy was going to ask me, you know, for a passport but the guy said you boys have joined the Royal Air Force and youre going over to fight the germans. Bless your soul. I wish i could come with you. As soon as they got on the ship they were commissioned and the raf volunteer reserve. Those guys got off the boat and you went to london, signed in at the air ministry, got their uniforms, and they were officers in the raf. Our pay was 79 a month. Theyre off to the Training Unit and we were checked out and i could fly an airport okay and i got to get into the hurricane blindfolded, youre supposed to tell him where the gadgets were and so forth. Okay, you got it . Yes, sir. Okay. Out. Keep your air speed up. Dont let the ground come up. Go fly the airport. No trainers, no second seat, no simulators . Nothing . I had less than 100 hours. What was it the like first time you sat down in the cockpit . Pretty scary but the hurricane was a easy airplane to fly. It was really that experience that one can never forget. Where you get strapped inside there and you look at your instruments and your heart is pounding, but youre cleared for takeoff and you just got to do it. Red campbell was the first to encounter. We flew convoy trial. The first time you get in the combat of that type things so happen soggy fast you dont know where to look. And the second you saw how stupid you were and how little you knew. Hollywood got in the action when 20th century fox remered a movie. Featuring super stars tyrone and betty. The raf pilot in the skies over britain. We all laughed. It was bs. Come back here. Dont cry, darling. Dont worry about me. Ill be back. Nothing ever happens to me. The movie also earned james grey a new nickname. I was kind of a jokester at that time, and coming out of movie one of my roommates said, well, tyrone was a yank in the raf but you would be a jerk in the raf. So i added an o to stretch it out. They called me jerko for a long time. No one was laughing two months later when the japanese attacked pearl harbor in 1941. Did you know where pearl harbor was . No. Something to do with hawaii and the japans had attacked. Thats what reality set in. Wait a minute, were involved in the war also. A day of infamy ends theres no one road out there. No one surface. No one speed. No one way of driving on each and every road. But there is one car that can conquer them all. 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Trying to sort out any of the ene enemy. Shoot them up. The intelligence sometimes would tell us, you know, that it train would depart such and such place and arrive at such and such place. We would try to intercept the plane. If it was a civilian train, we didnt bother the cars. So the question is were the pretty girls falling all over you like they were for tyrone. Some of them, yeah. Yeah. We had a pretty good choice of beauties well, i think the women went for raf, you know, they even had the song he ware wears a pair of silver wings. How did the americans fit in the crowd . Absolutely wonderful. The british civilians absolutely loved the americans. What would they do . They would drink. They drank a lot. Some squad rons they raced to get to the pub after stand down was as intense during the scramble to get to the spit fires. In early 42 Rhett Campbell had been transferredo the pacific to take on the japanese. Art donahue went over to singapore having invasion he was hit in the thigh and it literally ripped a hole that size in his thigh. He rammed his gloved fist into his thigh and flew and landed it with one hand and got back to the airfield. I was shot down and i had attacked. Shot them down. One i did not see was coming down from above. He came down an hammered me. After bailing out red managed to make his way back to the airfield. The japanese closing in the squad ron was ordered to withdraw. But there wasnt a seat for everyone. I was among the six volunteers that volunteered to stay behind. So we went over and we found an old fishing boat which we were going to fix up and sail to australia. We were a mess at this time. We woke up one morning and we were surrounded by japans. They took us and put us in a prison camp. He spent three and a half years in brutal captivity with little food or medicine and daddist japanese guards. We were less than dirt because we allowed ourselves to be captured. With americans at war the eagle squad ron pr value was old and the u. S. Needed pilots. In september of 42, the three squad rons were transferred to the u. S. Army air force. I said theyre not going to take me. So i jumped on the train, got to lond london, and they asked me if i intend to go back to the states after the war. I said yes, sir, i want to become an american at the earliest possible time. He said to me, you mean to pell me ill be able to assistance for over even though im not an american . American . He said yes. Remember here at ally, nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Whos with me . Im in. Im in. Im in. Im in. One, two, wait, wait. Wait wheres tina . Doing the hand thing . Yep we are all in for our customers. Ally. 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I walked around and said no, i adopt want to transfer that to scare that. Ill stick with this. James gray did stick with the spit fire and stayed in the raf until the end of the war. Steve jim gray is no fan of the p 47. How did you feel about the airplane . I loved it for high altitude. And i got my First Mission on the 21st of may, 1943. And i may of 43 brought another thing to steves life. When returned from a mission he was summoned to a commanders office. He grabbed the phone and the ambassador, please. He said, john, i got the lieutenant right here and i think you better tell him. I couldnt hold the phone. He said, lieutenant, how old you like to become a u. S. Citizens here in london today . I couldnt really, you know, believe what the man was saying. The ceremony was a moment to remember. Generals and newspaper man were there. What took place here today i want to relay to the american people. You should the letters i got. I got a letter from a lay dwi 1 in it. She said i heard you on the radio. And i want to thank you. Ive sent you a dollar to buy some cigarettes. Air to air combat is a ruthless environment. That takes a terrible toll. If you take 240 squad rons at the end of the world war ii 44 was dying or dead. I lost my engine. Two more later and then on the way back my engine quit. How many kills did you have at that point . Ten. March of 1944 downed and occupied france steve made contact with a french underground in hopes of being smuggled back to england. How long were you on the ground with the French Resistance . Six months. Youre there with them when the allies invade . Yes. The invasion of Southern France with masses of troops. That are comrades in northern france are shattering the nazis. What did you get shot . July the 13th. What was the mission . Escorting. I jumped out the wrong side and hit the tail. I landed backyard of i never got out of my suit and pitch fork in my back. Do you remeer the date you were shot down . Yeah. My birthday january 4th, 1945. Thats a great birthday. What happens . Were dropping 500 pound bombs on northern italy. Thats where i got shot down. I got shot up behind the lines and floating down the parachute i had a whole and i thought my gosh, not about being a pow. I had to get back i had a birthday feast and i was going to pick up the tab. Years after world war ii there is still a price to be paid by those who served in [alarm beeping] the highly advanced audi a4. Before it became a medicine, it was an idea. An inspiration. A wild whatif. So scientists went to work. They examined 87 different protein structures. Had 12 years of setbacks and breakthroughs, 4,423 sleepless nights, and countless trips back to the drawing board. At first they were told no, well. Maybe, and finally yes. Then it was 36 clinical trials, 8,500 patient volunteers, and the hope of millions. And so after it became a medicine, someone who couldnt be cured, could be. Me. 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They fell through the cracks. I applied and i got nothing. We are the only one that remain on the status. James grey and Rhett Campbell flew in combat, prisoners of war, yet they have never been given any veterans benefits. Gray keep it is . Perspective. Its good we survived. Steve retired from the air force in 1973 having piloted over 50 different aircraft and spent over 8,000 hours in the air. We volunteered for one thing. The american way of life. To the men of the raf who risked it all to stop hitler in his tracks, theirs is a war story that deserves to be told. Good night. Good evening, everybody. Im 0 dloubs. Donald trumps week just got a lot better and it was going pretty well to begin with. The republican nominee has been rising in the polls as hillarys scandals and health sca dominate the headlines. Tonight more good news for donald trump. A brand new fox news poll shows trump with a onepoint lead over clinton among likely voters in a headtohead matchup. 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