Alpha Centauri

ibrokethe4thwall:

number of fucks given?

= zero.

life:

The pilots of an RAF (Royal Air Force) fighter squadron that destroyed 73 enemy planes and damaged 38 others during the Battle of Britain crowd around a Hawker Hurricane with their canine mascot. Of England’s debt to the outnumbered pilots who defeated the Nazi Luftwaffe, Winston Churchill famously said: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Ever since, the pilots who defended Britain during those crucial months in 1940 — Britons, Poles, Czechs, Yanks, Canadians, Aussies, and other volunteers from around the world — have been known, simply and affectionately, as The Few.

see more — World War II: In Praise of the RAF