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  • During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

    Air   Battle   Bombers  
    Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

    Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.
  • And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.

    Girl   Character   Gun  
    "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.
  • Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

    War   Moving   Fall  
    Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60
  • Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

    "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.
  • What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

    Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502
  • Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

    Country   Dog   Horse  
  • The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

    "Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

    Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940
  • Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

    War   Men   Years  
    Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940
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