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'Battle of Britain' aerial combat is now 75 years past

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It entered the history books long ago: Weeks and weeks of remarkable aerial combat fought above southern England in the waning summer of 1940. In those early days of World War II, Adolf Hitler hoped to destroy Britain's Fighter Command and force a capitulation of the British Isles. He planned an easy invasion. Hitler made a [...]

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