A young pilot, fresh out of training, is called to join a Flight while they wait for the call to scramble. Throughout a single day, he witnesses the skies of southern England filled with deadly dog fights, and after every exhausting battle the men return to their dispersal hut, only to find another of their number missing. Unwilling to surrender, the pilot and his comrades unite to take to the skies once more, determined to defend not only the airfield, but their entire country.
Para reduzir o risco de fugas, a Luftwaffe decidiu transferir para um campo de prisioneiros de segurança máxima uma parte dos seus mais audaciosos prisioneiros de guerra Aliados, quase todos com um longo currículo de fugas fracassadas. Decididos a não baixar os braços e a, pelo menos, provocarem a maior confusão possível entre os captores Alemães, um grupo de prisioneiros decide organizar uma fuga em massa de 250 prisioneiros numa só noite.
A mais extraordinária batalha aérea da história, transformada num clássico filme de guerra.
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.