Though not born until the decade following the war, I had what the (mostly very young) fliers did for Britain sufficiently impressed upon me to sometimes be conscious of it when I rode my bike along the, by then, disused, aerodrome between Oxford and Grove. And it was certainly always remembered and valued by those they protected. In later years, every time my mother saw a by then, elderly, RAF veteran neighbour walk past our house, she would say, “There goes one of the few.”
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-britain
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/battleofbritain.htm
Account by its only remaining survivor: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12669225/last-battle-of-britain-survivor-incredible-story-80th-anniversary/
Winston Churchill’s famous, ‘Never Was So Much Over By So Many To So Few’ speech:
