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Jules Hudson and his team go diving on HMS Borealis, sunk during the Battle of Britain.

Jules Hudson goes diving on HMS Borealis, which was sunk at the start of the Battle of Britain. He tells the tale of two pilots killed during the battle.

To mark the 70th anniversary of 1940, presenter and archaeologist Jules Hudson goes on a journey of discovery into Britain's darkest and, in the words of Winston Churchill, 'finest hour'. 

Jules Hudson and his team are off the Isle of Wight diving on HMS Borealis, a ship from Convoy Peewit, sunk in the opening stages of the Battle of Britain. 

With unseen colour film from 1940, Jules tells the hearbreaking story of two pilots killed in the Battle of Britain, and the glamorous woman at the centre of both their lives. 

The team head to Chesil beach as they attempt to recover the remains of an RAF Hurricane fighter plane shot down in August 1940, at the height of the battle.

Featuring aviation archaeologists Steve Vizard and Gareth Jones, and military historian Andy Saunders.

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