BATTLti 0? BRITAIN FLY PAST
On view at the Horse Guards' Parade were Hurricanes
and Spitfires, front-line aefonce at the time of our
greatest peril, as well as the Vampires and Meteors of
today's Fighter Command.
Lord Tedder una other jR.A.F.
leaders on the spot witnessed the fly-past commemorating
the tiatule
of Britain.
Appropriately from. Uxbridge where Filter-Command directed
the Battle etf Britain, was now directed the fly-past, by
the same system of SHBHK telephonic linK-up with radar
and Fighter stations. Today this una er ground operationsroom was not defending, the country,uut co-ordimting t£e
nunurea*and-thirty ait craft of the H.A.F., Wavy, American
and Czechoslovak Air Forces, which on the Air kin is try
roof Lord Tedder and Lord Dow ding saw Si pass over.
Lord Dow ding commanded the fighting--wing in that great
cattle against heavy odds,by the which the German invasion
threat was beaten o f f .