BIGGIN HILL 30 AUGUST 1940

Biggin Hill in Kent was perhaps the most famous of all the RAF fighter bases during the Battle of Britain. By the end of November, when two Spitfires shot down an Me 109 over the Channel, the station claimed 600 enemy aircraft destroyed. The aces who flew from Biggin Hill included Max Aitken (son of Lord Beaverbrook and a member of the “Millionaires’ Squadron”), “Sailor” Malan and John Mungo-Park. The most remarkable thing about Biggin Hill was the fact that it continued to act as a fighter station even when almost all its buildings had been destroyed in air attacks in late August 1940. The airfield had begun life in January 1917 during the First World War when the Royal Flying Corps established a Wireless Testing Park there. During the…

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