Aces High is a piece of orchestral music by Ron Goodwin in a military march style for the 1969 soundtrack of the film Battle of Britain.
The famous opening sequence of the film was shot in March 1968 at Tablada Aerodrome (Seville Airport) in Andalusia, southern Spain.
There is a scene showing the deserted British Army vehicles at Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo), and a BBC Radio news broadcast (on 18 June 1940) announces In the House of Commons this afternoon the Prime Minister Mr Churchill said - What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over.
When the Queen opened the new £35m UK Berlin embassy on 18 July 2000,[4] the band of the Royal Tank Regiment played the music, which was viewed as a faux-pas.
[citation needed] The style of the music is distinctively and intentionally German to represent the Luftwaffe.