IS THE STORY OF 'THE FEW' MORE MYTH THAN REALITY? Eighty years on from the height of the Battle of Britain, four historians confront the nature of this key episode in the Second World War.

The article offers information on the British popular memory of the Second World War that is the image of Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. Topics include examines that the Germans certainly had more bombers, dive-bombers and heavy fighters than the RAF, but they were adapted chiefly to support a land battle and were highly vulnerable to a well-organized fighter defense.