Who was the head of RAF fighter command during the Battle of Britain?
Battle of Britain the Nazi war-machine, fought with great distinction. The No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron for example was not just the highest scoring of the Hurricane squadrons during the Battle of Britain, but also had the highest ratio of enemy aircraft destroyed to their own losses. "Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry," wrote Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, head of RAF Fighter Command, "I hesitate to say that the outcome of the Battle (of Britain) would have been the same." An element of the Italian Royal Air Force ("Regia Aeronautica")
Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain RAF, who claimed 14 kills before his death in September 1940. No. 10 Squadron RAAF, a flying boat squadron was also based in Britain at the time, as part of Coastal Command. At the start of the war, the small Caribbean island of Barbados was a British crown colony. Aubrey "Sinbad" de Lisle Inniss (1916-2003) was the sole Barbadian to serve as a pilot during the Battle of Britain. Inniss was born in Barbados to a British family and joined the RAF in 1939. During the Battle, he flew a Bristol Blenheim IF night fighter with No. 236 Squadron RAF