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My dad flew Hurricanes then Spits for the RAF during the war, he told me this is the most real and authentic account of one man's experience that closely followed his own. I read it and can highly recommend it.
You must be very proud of your father.
I'm going to get the book and read it.
There is something about those months in 1940 that caught my imagination as a kid, courage, valor, desperation.
Peter Townsend's Duel of Eagles is the best book about the Battle of Britain I've read to date. That book is what inspired me want to joint the military and fly. So many heroes.

"Never was so much owed by so many to so few."

https://www.amazon.com/Duel-Eagles-Greatest-Britain-Written/dp/0785815686
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