An account composed entirely of recordings from the BBC's library by those who actively contributed to this great victory, and by those who watched it from Occupied Jersey and from the fields of Kent and Sussex.
Among the voices heard are those of Flight-Lieutenant Richard Hillary, author of The Last Enemy, and Flight-Lieutenant J. B. Nicolson, who describes the action for which he was awarded the first fighter pilot V.C. of the 1939-45 war.
(BBC recording: previously broadcast in the Light Programme on September 15, 1957)