584
‘Let us go on together …’ Cited in Colville, The Fringes of Power, 24/9/1940
585
‘I still think this war …’ JPK, diary, 17/9/40
585
‘Kennedy has the speculator’s smartness …’ Raymond Lee, The London Observer, 17/9/1940
586
‘It’s really good to be alive …’ Rawlings papers, letter, 29/9/1940
587
‘Rothkirch is not adding up …’ Bethke, diary, 10/10/1940
587
‘It is also hoped …’ Ibid., 16/10/1940
588
‘They were supposed to be …’ Steinhilper and Osborne, Spitfire on My Tail, p. 304
588
‘It seemed you could just…’ Ibid.
589
‘And tomorrow …’ Stahl, The Diving Eagle, 16/10/1940
594
‘This has resulted …’ Cockett, Love and War in London, September 1940
594
‘Life around here proceeds …’ MO diarist 53967, 24/10/1940
48. Last Flight
595
‘Protect the fighter-bombers …’ This account comes from Steinhilper and Osborne, Spitfire on My Tail, pp. 9–19 and pp. 324–5
Postscript
601
‘Whoopee! I’ve got a 109’ John Dundas papers
602
‘So it has happened at last…’ Hugh Dundas papers, diary, 1/12/1940
604
‘Now you’ve got your ****** war!’ Cited in Irving, Göring, p. 268
607
‘The only guide to a man …’ Cited in Stewart, Burying Caesar, p. 448
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