Battle of Britain (1969)

Patrick Wymark: Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory

Quotes 

• Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory : [protesting to Dowding]  We were up, sir, trying to knock out the enemy air mass. It takes time to assemble forty or fifty aircraft at...

  Air Vice Marshal Keith Park : [interrupting]  It takes far too long! By the time your "Big Wing" is up, the enemies have already hit their targets and are on their way home.

  Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory : All that matters is to shoot them down in large numbers. I'd rather destroy fifty after they've hit their targets than ten before.

  Air Vice Marshal Keith Park : Don't forget, the targets are my airfields, Leigh-Mallory. And you're not getting fifty. You're not even getting ten!