SQUADRON NOTICE BOARD
FROM GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT!
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Gentlemen!! You have been called from all corners of the Commonwealth to serve King and Country in the struggle against our common enemy. To bring freedom to the oppressed and to fulfill your duty in all theatres of war. Collect your uniforms and make your way to your assigned Squadrons immediately. Good Luck. |
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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"I look forward confidently to the exploits of our fighter pilots-these splendid men, this brilliant youth-who will have the glory of saving their native land, their island home, and all they love, from the most deadly of all attacks." "What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." Winston Spencer Churchill June 18th 1940 |
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