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The final words from the Challenge of Britain pilots who saved the Allies from a Nazi success. After the fall of France in May 1940, the English Expeditionary Power was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood together to handle Hitler's unavoidable invasion look at. For the German military to land across the route, Hitler needed mastery of the skies - the Royal Air Power would need to be busted. So every day throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties. Greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, the pilots of RAF Fighter Control scrambled as many as five times every day, and civilians viewed skies crisscrossed with the contrails from the regular dogfights between Spitfires and Me-109s. Britain's very flexibility depended on the outcome of that summer's battle: Its air defenses were terribly battered and nearly busted, but against all odds, 'The Few', as they had become known, bought Britain's flexibility - many with their lives. More than a fifth of the British and Allied pilots passed on during the Challenge of Britain. They are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. Their testimonies are as riveting, as vivid, so that poignant as these were 70 years ago. We won't see their like again.
