15 September 1940. Every fighter squadron was committed in battle, the RAF had no reserves.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
Sir Winston Churchill
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.”
Sir Winston Churchill