The Hardest Day

[NutmegCT]

August 18, 1940. The "hardest day" of the Battle of Britain.

https://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/75t...1940_kent_remembers_the_hardest_day_1_4198379

And the Spitfires continued spitting their fire.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Nice article, thanks Tom.

 

[HealeyRick]

Of course it's a movie, but the 1969 film "Battle of Britain" did a pretty good job of showing this with a fleet of fighters from the period. Must have been quite a sight for the farmers from Kent to watch the battles overhead.

 

[NutmegCT]

Some descriptions of that day's events:

https://www.battleofbritain1940.net/0028.html

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
- the Prime Minister

 

[weewillie]

excellent articles, thanks Tom