A coda for the few
John Hemingway, 1919-2025
ON MARCH 17, JOHN Allman Hemingway passed away. He was the last surviving airman of the Battle of Britain. They’re all gone now. Soon every pilot will be gone, along with every trooper and tanker and Wren. One by one they go, to do their dying, to the fate which by luck or accident escaped them e…