The pilots of an RAF (Royal Air Force) fighter squadron that destroyed 73 enemy planes and damaged 38 others during the Battle of Britain crowd around a Spitfire with their canine mascot. Of England's debt to the outnumbered RAF pilots who defeated the Nazi Luftwaffe, Winston Churchill famously said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Ever since, the pilots who defended Britain during those critical months in 1940—Britons, Poles, Czechs, Americans, Canadians, Aussies, and other volunteers from around the world—have been known, simply and affectionately, as The Few.
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