A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...
John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105.
John “Paddy” Hemingway, an Irishman who served in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the 1940 Battle of Britain, died ...
The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.
Hemingway was one of the 3,500 or so Battle of Britain pilots Churchill had in mind when he made his noted remark in 1940: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so ...