On June 18^th 1940, Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons that the Battle of France was over and he expected the Battle of Britain to begin.  Britain was standing alone against the might of the Third Reich and would be forced to fight for her very survival. Luckily, before the Wehrmacht could launch an invasion across the English Channel, they needed to secure superiority in the air and they would not have it all their own way! 

Over the next few months, the young pilots of Fighter Command would be forced into aerial battles with their Luftwaffe adversaries, facing odds of 4 to 1 against them.  Day after day, hundreds of German aircraft came and each time they did, RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes repelled them.  Although they came perilously close to defeat, Churchill’s ‘Few’ managed to save Britain and with it, write one of the most glorious chapters in our nation's history.