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Service to honour WWII RAF airmen

RAF pilots who defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain are being remembered at a thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey.

Veterans and their families are attending, along with the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Defence Secretary Des Browne.

The service marks the 68th anniversary of the battle that cost 544 airmen.

It was these crewmen Winston Churchill referred to in his phrase "never was so much owed by so many to so few".

Read entire article at BBC