10 May 1940 A.D. Royal Canadian Air Force: “Battle of Britain”—Churchill Dubbed British and Canadian Airmen “The Few:” Actually, 2,353 RCAF Pilots and Airmen in Combat
10 May 1940 A.D. Royal Canadian Air Force: “Battle of Britain”—Churchill D ubbed British and Canadian Airmen “The Few:” Actually, 2,353 RCAF Pilots and Airmen in Combat Editors. “The Battle of Britain.” Royal Canadian Air Force. N.d. http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/battle-britain/history.page . Accessed 16 Jan 2015. History Nicolas Trudgian 'A Summer of Heroes' The Battle of Britain, says Canadian historian Hugh Halliday, “represented the first commitment of the Royal Canadian Air Force to combat in [the Second World War], although the Canadian role was small compared to future operations”. The summer of 1940 was a dark time for the Allied Forces during the Second World War. Most of continental Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Hitler was preparing to launch a full-scale invation of Great Britain. But first, he needed to dominate the airspace over the English Channel. To do so, his Luftwaffe (air force) needed to destroy the Royal Air Force (RAF)...