He was the last known survivor of the “Battle of Britain.” He was one of approximately 3000 pilots and crew who fought the German Air Force in 1940. Those were the flyers about whom Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Had they not succeeded, Hitler would have had air superiority, and it is likely his forces would have crossed the Channel to invade Britain. Remember at that time Britain was standing alone. The U.S. didn’t enter the way until Dec. 1941.
We owe those pilots. We owe Britain.
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