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Living for the moment: Tony Woods-Scawen and Harold 'Knockers' North

A pilot who felt the loss of his friends deeply

A giant of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot - 6'4" and 17 stone

607 squadron's heavy losses defending London - Stuart Parnall

Remains of brave pilot 'Missing in action' discovered 30+ years later - P/O George Drake, aged 19

Eric 'Sawn-Off' Lock - Top 3.5% fighter pilots accounted for 30% of kills in the Battle of Britain

Roy Marchand - a mother's pain on the loss of her only son

Brave Australian pilot returned to burning aircraft to steer it away from Kent village

Dennis David - Even successful aces became exhausted

Squadron Leader Max Aitken, son of Lord Beaverbrook

25 July 1940 - Archibald Finnie shot down near Kingsdown, Dover

Bill Rafter

Archibald McKellar - fighter 'ace in a day'

Patrick Woods-Scawen, one of two brothers killed within a day of each other

Peter Collard DFC

Lord Richard Kay-Shuttleworth - 145 Squadron - killed on 8 August 1940

8 August 1940 - 5 pilots from 145 Squadron lost in one day

8 August 1940 - Sgt David Kirton shot down in flames over Manston followed by Sgt Phillips

5 August 1940 - Sgt Lewis Isaac killed on his first operational sortie