TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kershaw,Alex
TI  - The few: the American "Knights of the air" who risked everything to fight in the battle of Britain 
SN  - 0306813033
AV  - D786 KER .K47 2006
U1  - D786 KER 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Royal Air Force
KW  - Fighter Command
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, British
KW  - Americans
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index
N2  - The never-before-told story of the American pilots--idealists, adventurers, romantics--who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. Eight young Americans joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940--over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became "knights of the air" and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Winston Churchill once said of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." These daring Americans were the few among the "few."--From publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009284209-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009284209-d.html
ER  -