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Where the Battle of Britain Began

In this Then & Now episode, we revisit the quiet hills of Kent where, on July 8, 1940, the RAF scored its first fighter kill over British soil when a Spitfire downed a German Messerschmitt Bf 109.
In the summer of 1940, the fate of Europe hung in the balance as the Luftwaffe prepared to crush Britain from the air. Fresh from their lightning victories in France and the Low Countries, German ...
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