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September 15th, 1940 - RAF pilots gun down 185 German planes in the Battle of Britain.

In the summer of 1940, an [-----1-----] was launched across the English Channel by Germany. Adolf Hitler hoped that his Luftwaffe would destroy the much smaller British Royal Air Force for Operation Sea Lion, his planned invasion of Britain. German aircraft [-----2-----] the British by more than 3 to 1, but a new radar system assisted the heroic young R.A.F. pilots in [-----3-----] their enemies by better than 2 to 1. On September 15th, 1940, as London [-----4-----], 185 German planes went down to [-----5-----] in the Battle of Britain, and force Hitler to abandon Sea Lion.Winston Churchill said, Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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