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Showing posts with label Darkest Hour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darkest Hour. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 June 2023

The Few

 
Never was so much owed by so many to so few
 
Picture: Unknown photographer,His Majesty's Stationery Office photograph,Crown Copyright
 
The Few,the handful of pilots who heroically defended the United Kingdom in it's darkest hour,or as racist and misandrist Royal Air Force officers might describe them: "useless white male pilots".
 
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