Lest we Forget

Saturday, September 15. 2007

It is once again September 15th, Battle of Britain memorial day. The day on which it was announced that the threat of invasion from Nazi Germany had subsided thanks to the steely wit and dogged determination of the men and woman of the R.A.F.

Between 10th July and September 15th 1940 a fierce battle raged over the skies of England. It was to be this battle that would decide Adolf Hitlers plans to invade England. If we could hold the skies, his plan would be thwarted, lose and it would be the end of any hopes for stopping the Nazi war machine.

People who have read this blog before will know that a major interest of mine are WWI and WWII. I find it amazing that such a small island managed to hold back the gargantuan forces of Adolf Hitler against all odds.

This afternoon was spent watching footage of the fantastic Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster bomber, it left me, as always with a feeling of awe and (strangely) nostalgia.

It may seem strange but I have always felt an affinity with the allied soldiers of the british army that defended our own and liberated mainland europe. I have no explanation for this other than I have always felt that members of our fighting forces were of a different caliber of men to what we know today.

This blog entry is simply to remind anyone who stumbles across it to take a minute to remember what these people did for us and for the rest of europe, without them we would not be the Great Britain we are today.

To all of those who fought on both sides, both alive and passed, I commend you. May the fallen rest in peace and may we never forget the battle that was fought so that we today can live in peace.

To quote Churchill,

"Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed, by so many, to so few"

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