My pencil drawing of Dakotas and Paratroopers during Operation Market Garden has a “Then and Now” theme - I’ve added Hercules and A400M aircraft.
I created it for a sadly cancelled project and it’s 70cm x 50cm, so quite large (for me!).
I hope you like it.
#WeWillRememberThem #TheFew #Remembrance
The men behind Trump are counting on you surrendering without a fight. They think they can conquer America bloodlessly. But sometimes it takes only a few to turn the tide. Join me at:
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#FightingTyranny #Resistance #TheFew #NeverSurrender
Remembering the Battle of Britain
On this day we honour the courage of “The Few” who defended the skies 1940.
#BattleOfBritain #TheFew #CanadaRemembers #ScottishHeritage #CanadianFriendsOfScotlandCanadian Friends of Scotland: Remembering the Battle of Britain
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Cheers @spitfirefilly.bsky.social, here's to #Victory and #TheFew and thank you for speaking at the Dinner Night!
Great to see you on Bluesky, @taitster.bsky.social ! Thank you so much for your kind words. It was a tremendous honour to give the speeches for the Defence Academy's Battle of Britain Dinner Night at Shrivenham - may we drink to #TheFew on this #BattleOfBritainDay! 🥃
Today is the 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and we paused to remember #TheFew at a superb Dinner Night last week. Awesomely evocative speech from @spitfirefilly.bsky.social really made the night. Reminded us how much we owe them all.
#BoB85 #BattleofBritainDay #RAF
It’s #BattleofBritain day.
The mighty Spitfire! #TheFew
With today being #BattleOfBritainDay, do tune in to Hugo Rifkind's Times Radio show at 12:30 BST. I will be discussing the Luftwaffe's experience during the campaign and why memories of the #BattleOfBritain & #TheFew need to be preserved for posterity
www.thetimes.com/radio/live
Battle of Britain parade in Queen Street, Auckland. Sir Keith Park standing on the dais in Civic Square on Friday, 13 September 1968. Air Force Museum of New Zealand WhG4055-68
Today is the Battle of Britain Day and on this 85th anniversary we remember the significant contribution of the 130 of 'The Few' from New Zealand, including Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park seen here commemorating this day in Auckland in 1968 #TheFew #battleofbritain85 #battleofbritain
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On this day in 1940, Sir Winston Churchill made the fourth of his wartime speeches which contained the phrase - Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
#BattleOfBritain #TheFew #TheMany #WWII
OTD in 1940 Winston Churchill makes his “never was so much owed by so many to so few” speech.
‘The RAF fighter pilots fought against heavy odds with the highest gallantry.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #20August #TheFew #BattleofBritain
Who you gonna call?
135 New Zealanders took part in the Battle of Britain: Keith Park’s No. 11 Group protected London and South-East England, including No. 54 Squadron fighter aces Al Deere and Colin Gray, while Archibald McIndoe began his pioneering treatment of burns. #TheFew 🇳🇿 #BattleofBritain85
The Airmen's Stories - F/O J H L Allen The Battle of Britain London Monument https://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/AllenJHL.htm
85 years ago today the Battle of Britain began on 10 July 1940. Two days later F/O James Henry Leslie Allen, 151 Sqn
@royalairforce.bsky.social, was the first of many New Zealanders killed when his Hurricane was shot down. Commemorated @cwgc.bsky.social Runnymede Memorial and in Napier. #TheFew
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Join us for the #BattleofBritain Proms at our Midlands site – a rousing open-air concert marking 85 years since the Battle of Britain 🇬🇧
🎶 Music, memories, and a mighty Hercules backdrop!
📅 20 & 21 Sept 2025
🎟️ £24 / £20 concession
👉 bit.ly/3GsYwwv
#Proms2025 #TheFew
'Some' 😂😂😂😂. Like his good friends? And anyone that owes him lunch ? Fuck the rest ?
Rough day to work for the government, rough year for someone who USED to work for the government. 😂
#Iran #GlobalPower #USHey #TheseColorsDontRun #TheBrave #TheFew #SemperFidelis #Baghdad #Iraq
“For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:14
It isn’t a numbers game. #thefew
#RIP John « Paddy » Hemingway, 105 ans. Dernier survivant des pilotes de chasse de la RAF qui ont défendu la Grande Bretagne du blitzkrieg nazi à l'été 1940. Un morceau d'histoire connu sous le nom de Bataille d'Angleterre. #TheFew 🇬🇧
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMJ3...
Fighting age individuals #lgbtq should be #conscripted to fight in #ukraine. #TheFew....
Clear skies sir:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #BattleOfBritain #TheFew #PaddyHemingway #WW2 #Spitfire #Hurricane
#Hero #Respect #RIP
Last of #TheFew, true heroes who successfully defended our country against the Nazis.
'End of an era': Last surviving #BattleOfBritain pilot dies
www.bbc.com/news/article...
For many this is a reminder of the a bygone time. When many men earned the rest of us a future.
#TheFew
#RAF
#WWII
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The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot has died at age 105.
John "Paddy" Hemingway was originally from Dublin and was 21 years of age during the fierce air defense against the Nazis that took place over 3 months in 1940.
#WW2 #TheFew #UK #RAF
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#TheFew are now none. ‘End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies
John "Paddy" Hemingway DFC RIP. #BattleOfBritain #TheFew #WeHaveWays #PaddyHemingway
I highly recommend this book. I am about halfway through it and it has me hostage.
Two six!
#raf #battleofbritan #thefew #themany #spitfire #fighterpilot #book #history
📣 Special announcement from Jess Bost and I. #theFEW
From across the globe they came, and faced off tyranny manifest.
#BoB24 #battleofbritain #thefew
Margaret Hodge - you have made your millions at the expense of the Many. You are one of the Few, why should we listen to you? A message from #TheMany to #TheFew we need #JC4PM to #GTTO and destroy the #StatusCoup