:17:00
But it takes time to assemble 40
or 50 aircraft at 15,000 feet.
:17:03
It takes far too long.
:17:05
By the time
your Big Wing is up...
:17:07
the enemy have hit their targets
and are on their way home.
:17:10
All that matters is to shoot
them down in large numbers.
:17:14
I'd rather destroy fifty after
they've hit their targets...
:17:17
than ten before.
:17:19
Don't forget the targets are
my airfields, Leigh-Mallory...
:17:22
and you're not getting fifty.
You're not even getting ten.
:17:25
Gentlemen, you're missing
the essential truth.
:17:30
We're short
of two hundred pilots.
:17:33
Those we have are tired,
strained...
:17:36
and all overdue for relief.
:17:41
We're fighting for survival.
:17:45
Losing.
:17:51
We don't need a big wing
or a small wing.
:17:55
We need pilots.
:18:03
And a miracle.
:18:06
Good night, gentlemen.
:18:11
- Good night, sir.
- Good night, sir.
:18:18
And now, over to
the Savoy Hotel, London...
:18:21
for dance music
until midnight...
:18:23
with Carrol Gibbons
and his Savoy Hotel Orpheans.
:18:45
You look a damn sight better
out of uniform.
:18:48
Hardly remember you
out of yours.
:18:51
And who's fault's that?
:18:53
For God's sake, not again.
:18:55
Look, damn it,
my squadron's come south.
:18:57
You just apply
for that posting!
:18:59
Colin, no!