Americans and the RAF

A highlight of our Warriors on the Western Front trip to Europe this year was visiting the RAF museum north of London.  Of course with everything else on this trip, we did not have near enough time to fully explore the museum.  Many Americans are aware that men from the US did join the RAF during the Battle of Britain prior to Pearl Harbor.  The sad part is that they learned this from the sappy Ben Affleck film Pearl Harbor.   These American pilots braved not only the German Luftwaffe, but lost their American citizenship for doing so.  They were later pardoned.  Letters they sent home were America's first up close look at World War II.  It always amazes me that just 160 years before Americans were giving their lives to defeat the British, but these men took it upon themselves to prevent the British from being defeated.

Royal Air Force Museum - Eagle Squadrons