SUBJECTS >> OPERATIONS >> World War II
AIRCRAFT >> FIGHTERS >> Spitfires
Catalog Number:
1993.136
Location:
4TH FLOOR E-RING 2-3
Description:
In the summer of 1940, Britain was fighting for survival agains Nazi Germany. From September 7, 1940 to May 11, 1941, the German Air Force blasted London nightly. Historians consider the Battle of Britain one of the turning points of the war. Without air supremacy Hitler could not invade England. One of the few never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill.