The British effort, known as Operation Pied Piper, relocated over 1,500,000
people, many of them children.
England had no money; no expectations, and nowhere to go.
German air warfare planners expected victory within one (1) week.
But Britain had two advantages:
1. Winston Churchill, then a 66-year old politician with a checkered track
record, a fondness for brandy and world-class communication skills
2. The RAF did not need to win. They had to merely avoid defeat.
people, many of them children.
England had no money; no expectations, and nowhere to go.
German air warfare planners expected victory within one (1) week.
But Britain had two advantages:
1. Winston Churchill, then a 66-year old politician with a checkered track
record, a fondness for brandy and world-class communication skills
2. The RAF did not need to win. They had to merely avoid defeat.
As stirring as Churchill's oratory was then and
remains today, left unsaid was how exactly
Britain was to survive. It took a lot of dying.
Ultimately, however, Churchill was proved
correct: it was indeed Britain's finest hour and
the RAF, The Few to whom so Many owed so
Much, would become the stuff of legends.
remains today, left unsaid was how exactly
Britain was to survive. It took a lot of dying.
Ultimately, however, Churchill was proved
correct: it was indeed Britain's finest hour and
the RAF, The Few to whom so Many owed so
Much, would become the stuff of legends.
Reginald Mitchell, known as The First of the Few, designed the Spitfire but never saw it fly in combat.