The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain

By the summer of World War II had been under way for nearly a year Hitler was triumphant and planning an invasion of England But the United States was still a neutral country and as Winston Churchill later observed the British people held the fort alone A few Americans however did not remain neutral They joined Britains Royal Air Force to fight Hitlers air aces and help save Britain in its darkest hour The Few is the never-before-told story of these thrill-seeking Americans who defied their countrys neutrality laws to fly side-by-side with Englands finest pilots They flew the lethal and elegant Spitfire and became knights of the air With minimal training and plenty of guts they dueled the skilled pilots of Germanys Luftwaffe in the blue skies over England They shot down several of Germanys fearsome aces and were feted as national heroes in Britain By October they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation At wars end just one of the Few would be alive The others died flying wearing the RAFs dark blue uniform-each with a shoulder patch depicting an American eagle As Winston Churchill said Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.