vaughanwilliams wrote: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. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power.
The battle of Britain was a turning point in WW2. If the RAF had succumbed, the world today might be a very different place. For a start, Cyprus might never had gained independance.
Well said.My own Father was killed over Germany in a Halifax in 1944,my step Father was a spitfire pilot and fought in The Battle of Britain and luckily survived the war.To both of these men I owe my freedom and that of my children and to say I am proud of them is an understatement so please don't sully their memory with thoughtless replies to this post.
) most of his formulations from Constantine Caratheodory. 
Anyway, better late than never. 
