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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force. Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world. Since its formation, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history, in particular, playing a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign, the Battle of Britain.
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[Kenneth Wilfrid Young Fison] joined the RAF as a radio observer in December 1941. At the time of joining he recorded in his diary the words of Edmund Burke: ‘When Bad Men combine, the good must associate; else will they fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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― Richard Hillary: The Definitive Biography of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot and Author of The Last Enemy
― Richard Hillary: The Definitive Biography of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot and Author of The Last Enemy
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The eyes of the men after the war. Like rabbits in headlights. We all were. All of them who never came back. All them going up into the air and then not coming down. A line through the name in the morning. And that was that. Well, we came through, Philip and me.
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― There But For The
― There But For The
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