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On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying
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In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn
