The“¦ gratitude o f every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes o j the guilty, outgoes to the British airmen, who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide o f world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field o f human conflict was so much owed by so many soto few .”—the prime minister.