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The only amateur footage of a Battle of Britain dogfight believed to exist will be shown on television tonight.
The rare colour footage, showing RAF fighters battling Luftwaffe planes on their way to raid London, was shot in 1940 in Ashford, Kent. It was found by chance after a house clearance sale.
Victor Don, a surgeon, was filming his dogs in the garden when he looked up to see the vapour trails.
He filmed an aircraft plummeting down and a wing of fighters peeling off to get on the tail of planes a few thousand feet below.
Stephen Bungay, author of The Most Dangerous Enemy, said: "The chances of surviving your first few dogfights were about 50-50.
"For the novice it was like passing your driving test, being given two or three days to play around in a sports car and then being entered for the Grand Prix."
Shooting the War, which also includes unseen footage of VE Day celebrations and of then-Princess Elizabeth, is on BBC Two at 10pm.
