Two flights of RAF Hurricanes head to intercept a large flight of He-111 bombers and Me-109 fighters in the early days of the Battle of Britain. Heating up: Newsom, Pritzker, Buttigieg make early ...

Dubbed the Battle ... Britain until spring. On September 15, 1940 Germany launched as all-out aerial attack. At 11:30 in the morning, air raid sirens wailed over London. Waves of incoming German ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial on the English Channel coast lists the names 2,941 Allied airmen who took part in the battle.

“During the Battle of Britain, women were restricted to flying training and communication aircraft such as the Airspeed Oxford.” That would change later on in the war, when female pilots were ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during ... to intercept thousands of enemy aircraft crossing the southern and eastern ...

John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105. Hemingway was just 20 years old when he and his comrades in the Royal Air Force took ...