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With every year the folk memory of the Second World War recedes a little farther. The death of Tadeusz Sawicz means that the last of the 145 Polish pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 has now passed away.
The Battle of Britain was a pivotal moment in the course of the war, the point at which Germany was held at bay. It is historically inaccurate for British servicemen to take all the credit. Men from all its imperial outposts gave distinguished service alongside their British counterparts.
The Polish Air Force had already offered notable resistance against
