It's there in the history, the Battle of Britain. Read about it.
At the time that Britain won that battle, she was the only power taking on Nazi Germany, whilst America sat on the sidelines making cushy business deals with the Nazis (Ford is a good example) and the cowardly American Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy (JFK's dad), became increasingly defeatist, calling the British "finished" and that they had no chance of beating Germany (before they went on to win the Battle of Britain) and retreated to the countryside during the bombings of London by German aircraft, at a time when the British Royal Family, Prime Minister, government ministers, and other ambassadors chose to stay in London. This prompted one wag in Britain's Foreign Office to say,
"I thought my daffodils were yellow until I met Joe Kennedy." And don't forget that whilst we were taking on Nazi Germany alone and inflicting her first major defeat of the war (the Battle of Britain) and so staving off a German invasion, every major British city was being bombed and tens of thousands of civilians were being killed.
It's all there in the history books. I can only assume, whilst you disparage Britain's education system (for mysterious reasons I have yet been able to ascertain), that you never learnt about the Battle of Britain and her LONE struggle against Nazi Germany throughout 1940 at school.
This notice began to appear in American newspapers during July and August. (This particular advertisement appeared in the New York Herald Tribune):
LONDON July 15: The Royal Air Force is in the market for American flyers as well as American airplanes. Experienced airmen, preferably those with at least 250 flying hours, would be welcomed by the RAF.
How many Americans fought for the RAF in the Battle of Britain? A grand total of eleven. Just under half of one percent of the 2927 RAF pilots (2353 of whom were British) who took part in that battle were Yanks.
The Poles constituted the greatest number of non-Britons to fight in the RAF in the Battle of Britain - 145 - but even they made up just 5% of the total number of RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain.
Canadian pilots numbered just 112 - a mere 4% of all the RAF pilots who fought in the battle.
You fail....
Eagle Squadrons
utterly.
No. You fail.
The "Eagle Squadrons" were just 250 Yank pilots that Britain never asked for nor needed, in an RAF which numbered over 250,000 personnel (so the Eagle Squadrons were just a thousandth of total RAF personnel) and which lasted for only a year or so, after which the Eagle Squadrons became part of the United States Army Air Force (the US had no air force in WWII) after it joined the war.
8O...........Well, whatever. I'm glad they're sending a medical ship, and personnel, albeit a tad latish.
What's Canada sent there?
Dunno how they can "treat" the disease except by quarantine.
We're doing a lot more to help these people than Canada is. When Ebola is averted from Canada's shores you can thank these British military personnel.
