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THEUNSUNGHEROESOFTHEBATTLEOFBRITAIN
WORDSDAVIDSMITH
Among the deadliest but least celebrated pilots to fi ght
the Luftwaffe during Britain’s time of need were Poland’s
fi ghter aces. This is the story of their fi nest hour
ugust 1940: for three weeks, the men them, began in their homeland of Poland and
of 303 Squadron have been forced to continued in France.
Await while the German war machine Everywhere the Poles have been, the
readies itself to smash the last resistance in Germans have proved inescapable, forcing
Western Europe. Not that they have been idle them to fi nd a new base from which to continue
– pilots and ground crew have been training their struggle. The Battle of Britain may have
hard to operate their Hurricane Mk Is, and been raging for weeks, but the men of 303
they are nearly ready to renew a fi ght that, for Squadron have already been fi ghting for a year.
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