I would be no real student of history if I didn't give you this quote by the incomparable Winston Churchill, speaking about the airmen fighting in the Battle of Britain:
"The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. "
—Tribute to the Royal Air Force, House of Commons,
(OK, I'm a nerd and I can't help myself: here's the most recent book I read on the subject.)
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