A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A BATTLE OF BRITAIN PILOT

From dawn until dusk every day for 16 weeks, Fighter Command’s pilots had to be ready to meet the Nazi threat in the skies

WOKEN AT DAWN All fighter pilots’ days started at dawn with a cup of tea brought to them by a junior rank. They wash and dress before being driven in lorries to the dispersal area. Here, by the runway, they eat breakfast – if they have the time – and wait. “SCRAMBLE!” By mid-morning, the radar stations start picking up incoming enemy aircraft. The dispersal area phone rings. The duty officer answers, nods his head, then clicks on the tannoy and shouts “Scramble!” into the receiver and across the airfield. INTO THE AIR Having raced to their planes, clambered into their parachutes and climbed into their aircraft, which fitters will already have started for them, pilots begin to taxi down the runway and take to the air. MISSION BRIEFING With…

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