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Today is 80 years to the day the #BattleOfBritain80 began.
Over 3,000 pilots fought for Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. The majority of them were British but pilots also came from other nations such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA, Ireland, Belgium, France
Over 3,000 pilots fought for Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. The majority of them were British but pilots also came from other nations such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA, Ireland, Belgium, France
oland and Czechoslovakia.
#DYK Of the 135 New Zealanders who served in RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, 20 lost their lives. Another 29 New Zealanders died serving in Bomber Command and eight in Coastal Command. In all, 57 New Zealand airmen died
#DYK Of the 135 New Zealanders who served in RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, 20 lost their lives. Another 29 New Zealanders died serving in Bomber Command and eight in Coastal Command. In all, 57 New Zealand airmen died
during the course of the battle
We will remember them
We will remember them
Australia 
Thirty-five Australians flew combat operations during the Battle of Britain, of whom ten were killed in action.
One Australian who flew in Fighter Command during the battle was Flight Lieutenant Pat Hughes of Cooma, New South Wales,
Thirty-five Australians flew combat operations during the Battle of Britain, of whom ten were killed in action.
One Australian who flew in Fighter Command during the battle was Flight Lieutenant Pat Hughes of Cooma, New South Wales,
who had at least fifteen and half credited kills to his tally and was among the top ten leading aces of the time. Like many of the Australians who flew during the Battle of Britain, Hughes had been a pre-war member of the Royal Australian Air Force,
but had transferred to the Royal Air Force under the Short Service Commission Scheme in 1937. He was attached to No. 234 Squadron RAF and flew air cover operations in Spitfires over airfields in Plymouth, and later conducted long distance missions in the Atlantic Ocean
and over the Mediterranean Sea. On 15 August 1940, Pat Hughes claimed a double victory of two Messerschmitt Bf110 heavy fighters which earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was killed less than three weeks later, on 7 September 1940,
intercepting a large formation of Dornier bombers and their escort of Messerschmitt fighters over Kent.
