:03:01
To an American reporter...
:03:02
there is something very special
about the people of this city...
:03:06
this island, this nation.
:03:08
Never in the long and stormy
history of Great Britain...
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have her fortunes been
as low as they are...
:03:13
in this spring of 1941.
:03:14
Britain is fighting alone
for her very existence...
:03:17
fighting desperately.
:03:18
Yet her people remain
steadfast and unflinching.
:03:22
Britain's allies have been
defeated one by one...
:03:25
as the dark stain of Nazi conquest...
:03:27
spreads across the map of Europe.
:03:29
In Africa, Rommel is giving
the Eighth Army a very bad time.
:03:33
Greece has fallen.
:03:35
And the Luftwaffe continues
to smash English cities.
:03:37
The worst news of all
comes from the North Atlantic...
:03:41
where last month, German U-boats
and surface raiders...
:03:45
sank 600,000 tons of shipping.
:03:47
In this battle,
Britain's lifeblood is at stake.
:03:49
This is the battle on which depends...
:03:52
the future course of the war...
:03:54
the future course of British history.
:03:59
The battle of the North Atlantic
is fought at sea...
:04:03
but it is directed from
the admiralty, here in London.
:04:11
Very deep in the ancient
Admiralty Building...
:04:14
200 feet underground, is the war room.
:04:17
Here is the guiding brain
and central nervous system...
:04:20
of the British navy...
:04:22
The Operations Division.
:04:25
Robert.
:04:26
Sir?
:04:27
Take Captain Shepard's things...
:04:29
and put them in the office.
:04:30
Aye, sir.
:04:31
Thank you.
:04:34
This, of course, is the message center...
:04:36
for incoming and outgoing signals.
:04:38
These tubes lead to
the wireless room down the hall.
:04:44
Oh, Shepard...
Anything wrong?
:04:47
That man's uniform.
:04:48
Oh. We're quite informal here
about some things.
:04:50
You'll find it's much different...
:04:52
from the bridge of a ship at sea.
:04:54
It has to be that way.
:04:57
Shepard, this is Commander Richards...
:04:59
the duty plot officer.