Today is Battle of Britain Day

September 15 is the Battle of Britain Day.

Let's take a moment to remember some real men who took on the mighty Luftwaffe for the life of their nation:







Flying some of the best damn fighters ever built:







And led by the GOAT wartime leader:





"What General Weygand called the battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire....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.’" - Winston Churchill, June 18, 1940

"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." - Winston Churchill, August 20, 1940