Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Pilot--single WWII figure
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Item Number: RAF095
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Pilot
As Britain's fate in the summer of 1940 lay in the hands and skills of fewer than 3,000 pilots, mostly Royal Air Force, but also foreign volunteers such as Czechs, Poles, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, and some Americans, another small group of British aviators also took part.
These particular pilots came from the Royal Navy's own Fleet Air Arm. In all, 57 naval pilots (The Few of The Few) would fly with the RAF during the Battle of Britain, with four of them becoming 'aces'.
London-born Sub Lieutenant Francis Dawson-Paul led the way with seven and a half 'kills' in just 25 days--fighters, twin-engined fighter/bombers, and medium bombers all fell victim to his Spitfire. Alas he did not survive the battle and was shot down over the English Channel just six weeks after becoming a fighter pilot!
This is our small tribute to all Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots who fought in that summer of 1940.
‘The Battle of Britain 1940’
After the Fall of France and the British Expeditionary Force’s evacuation from Dunkirk, a very short pause followed before Hitler’s aerial assault began on Britain, which, had it been successful, would have been swiftly followed by a full-scale invasion of the British Isles. Fortunately for Britain and the rest of the free world, the Royal Air Force stood in the way of a Luftwaffe victory, and, for the first time in WWII, defeated the Nazis and gave them a bloody nose! The pilots, groundcrew and many others in RAF Fighter Command bore the brunt of this German aerial assault day after day and eventually into the night, when the enemy changed his tactics.
Here are 5 new additions (and one dog) that help tell the amazing story that became known as The Battle of Britain.
Due to be released in MARCH 2025.
