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‘My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons…we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.’

Sir Hugh Dowding, RAF Fighter Command May 1940

‘Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.’

Winston Churchill

‘Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, on land, and in the air.’

Air Marshal Arthur Tedder

‘Anyone who fights, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy who dominates the air, is like a primitive warrior who stands against modern forces with the same limitations and the same chance of success.’

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

‘We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.’

Winston Churchill June 4, 1940

‘No enemy plane will fly over the Reich Territory.’

Hermann Goering

‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’

Winston Churchill on the Battle of Britain, August 20, 1940