Battle of Britain
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Churchill’s speech commonly known as “The Few” was delivered in the House of Commons on 20 August 1940, during the Battle of Britain. It is formally associated with his speech on “The First Year of the War.” The famous line about “the Few” referred principally to the RAF fighter pilots, although Churchill also deliberately paid…
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On 17 August 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged above southern England, Pilot Officer William Meade Lindsley “Billy” Fiske III died in a hospital in Chichester. He was just 29 years old. An American citizen serving in the Royal Air Force, Fiske had been badly burned when his Hawker Hurricane was hit by German…
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In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. Victory for the Luftwaffe in the air battle would have exposed Great Britain to invasion by the German army, which was then in control of…
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