THE NAZIS ARE COMING!
“The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, […] goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
So spoke Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. That final line in his commendation of the RAF’s efforts to stem the tide of German invasion has become one of his most famous and repeated declarations. The Battle of Britain had been waging for many weeks at this point, and now the Blitz was also approaching London. And just as the RAF was the focus of Churchill’s and
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