RAF001-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in like-new condition.
King & Country's RAF001 Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding
It's 1940, France had fallen, most of Western Europe was in German hands and the might of Hitler’s Luftwaffe was to descend on a lonely, beleaguered Britain fighting for its life. Hitler knew that if he was to successfully invade the little island Kingdom he had to smash the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force first. The fate of democracy and what was left of the Free World hung, for those few short months, in the balance. All that stood between the Nazis and their all-too-real threat of world domination was a relative handful of young fighter pilots and just over 50 squadrons of Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires.
Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding was the head of Fighter Command and the leading architect of the RAF’s victory over the Luftwaffe. This figure shows him in a typical pose paying a visit to one of his front line squadrons during the Battle.