RAF LAKENHEATH BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL

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Reference WMO/235733

Address:

York Road

RAF Lakenheath

Lakenheath

IP27 9FD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Spitfire on plinth + memorial. Slate tablet bearing the RAF Badge and depicting in the corners two Spitfires, a Blenheim and a Hurricane. Above all a model Spitfire.
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THE FEW./ THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE AIRMEN OF MANY NATIONS WHO FLEW WITH THE RAF/ DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND SERVED IN THE HEAVENS SO THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE./ IN JULY 1940, HITLER'S LUFTWAFFE BEGAN AN AERIAL SIEGE OF ENGLAND AIMED AT DESTROYING THE ROYAL AIR FORCE/ IN PREPARATION FOR A CROSS CHANNEL ASSAULT BY THE GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY. OUTNUMBERED SOMETIMES FOUR/ TO ONE, EXHAUSTED PILOTS OF THE RAF MET THE AERIAL ARMADA FLYING THOUSANDS OF SORTIES, DAY AFTER DAY,/ NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, TO ENSURE GREAT BRITAIN'S VERY SURVIVAL. BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER THE RAF HAD INFLICTED/ CRIPPLING LOSSES ON THE LUFTWAFFE, DESTROYING OVER 1880 ENEMY AIRCRAFT, THEREBY FORCING HITLER TO CANCEL/ HIS INVASION PLANS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. ALTHOUGH FEWER IN NUMBER, THE RAF LOSSES WERE DISPROPORTIONATELY/ HIGHER. MORE THAN 530 AIRMEN PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, SOME EVEN RAMMING ENEMY AIRCRAFT WHEN THEIR/ OWN GUNS JAMMED OR AMMUNITION RAN OUT./ AFTER THE BATTLE, THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, IMMORTALIZED/ THOSE AIRMEN THAT FLEW DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS:/ ...IF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND ITS COMMONWEALTH LAST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, MEN WILL STILL SAY/ "THIS WAS THEIR FINEST HOUR"./ DEDICATED BY/ THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN FIGHTER ASSOCIATION/ AND THE 48TH FIGHTER WING,/ SATURDAY 12TH JUNE 1997.

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