article_snippet: The building follows the wing plan of R J Mitchell's best-known fighter, the Supermarine Spitfire - one of the two aircraft credited with doing the most to win the battle in 1940.
article_snippet: the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were greeted by Prince Michael of Kent, who is a patron of the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydo.
article_snippet: The Queen then met with  some of the last surviving Battle of Britain pilots of Winston Churchill's famous 'few' at the National Memorial to the Few above the white cliffs in Kent.
article_snippet: A flypast of a Hurricane, Spitfire and Typhoon took place over the English Channel where RAF pilots defied Germany's Luftwaffe more than 70 years ago.
article_snippet: More than 500 of the 3,000 or so men of RAF Fighter Command died in the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940.
article_snippet: Of the remainder, a further 814 died before the end of the war.
article_snippet: As the battle raged in August 1940, Churchill uttered Churchill famous words in a speech to Parliament: 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
highlights_snippet: The Queen also met with last surviving Battle of Britain pilots of Churchill's 'few'
  Accompanied by Prince Philip