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Article: ENGLAND REMEMBERS DECISIVE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 19, 1990
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Byline: Richard Saltus Boston Globe
The late English summer of 1940 was notable for long stretches of brilliant sun and blue skies, yet for England it could hardly have been a darker time.
Day after day, exploiting the fair weather, German bombers and fighters streamed across the English Channel in droning death parades, up to 1,000 planes at a time, laden with bombs intended to smash British airfields and British spirit so that Hitler could invade the island nation.
And day after day, young and inexperienced Royal Air Force pilots hurtled aloft in outnumbered Spitfire and Hurricane fighters in a desperate attempt to keep the Luftwaffe from ...