On the BBC news this morning it was
reported that there was going to be:
Battle of Britain: Flypast for 75th
anniversary of 'Hardest Day'
Prime Minister Mr Winston Churchill
stated on the 20th August 1940 in the House of Commons two days
after the “Hardest day” the following:
We hope, we believe
that we shall be able to continue the air struggle indefinitely and as long as
the enemy pleases, and the longer it continues the more rapid will be our
approach, first towards that parity, and then into that superiority in the air,
upon which in a large measure the decision of the war depends. The gratitude of
every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world,
except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who,
undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are
turning the tide of world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in
the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts
go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes
day after day, but we must never forget that all the time, night after night,
month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their
targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks,
often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate,
careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the
technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power.
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