18 Cited in the Daily Express, 18 September 1944, p. 3.
19 Flight magazine, 20 September 1945, p. 302.
20 Published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle, 15 September 1945.
21 Full text on http://www.rafbf.org/The-debt-we-owe
22 http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf
23 Cabinet: C (60) 125. National Archives.
24 Cabinet: CC (60) 50. National Archives.
25 Cabinet: C (61) 51. National Archives.
26 Cabinet: CC (61) 23. National Archives.
27 BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4257084.stm “Monument marks Battle of Britain”. In part of his speech, Charles declared: “We shall never forget that if the few had failed in their mighty struggle, the consequences for this nation would have been quite unthinkable”.
28 Paul Day, the sculptor, said: “The pilots’ achievements are central. But the whole structure of Fighter Command is there. It is a giant collage that resurrects the spirit of the time, a spirit that has never left us”. The Times, 25 February 2003.
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