In part 2 of our Battle of Britain documentary, we explored how after Germany had swept over continental Europe, Britain under Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused to give in to Hitler’s ...

A Lancaster bomber is set to soar through the skies over the West Midlands this weekend. The British Second World War heavy bomber will be flying in for the return of Newport Show this Saturday (July ...

Battle of Britain (1969) tells the story of real life campaign of the same name which took place between July 10 and October 31 1940, in which RAF fighter aces and Allied pilots faced down Adolf ...

Back in 1969, Sean Connery’s Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton and James Bond movie producer Harry Saltzman teamed up for a World War II epic.. Battle of Britain would recreate the 1940 British ...

Without them, Britain would have faltered. While British women were not permitted to serve as front-line combat gunners during WWII, they played a vital anti-aircraft (AA) function that blurred ...

More Hurricanes flew in the Battle of Britain than any other British fighter, with 1,715 taking part and claiming 80% of destroyed enemy aircraft between July and October 1940.

John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105. ... when he flew fighter cover for retreating British forces.

John Hemingway in 1940. “He never saw his role in the Battle of Britain as anything other than doing the job he was trained to do,” the Royal Air Force said in a statement.

FILE – The last known Battle of Britain pilot, Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC celebrating his 105th birthday at the British Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, July 17, 2024.