On August 30 1940 a young Polish pilot set off on what should have been a simple training flight but instead delivered the real first kill of 303 Squadron and exposed how the famous Battle of Britain ...

The engines fall silent, the last vapors drift through the cold autumn air, and the Mk1 Spitfires roll to a stop on England’s ...

From the Prairies to Passchendaele, from the Land of Living Skies to the skies over London in the Battle of Britain, the ...

TODAY is Armistice Day, which marks the signing of the agreement to end the fighting of World War One. It came into force at 11am on November 11, 1918. Along with Remembrance Sunday, the ...

The museum’s Quonset hut represents the practical, utilitarian approach to wartime construction that characterized military installations worldwide. These prefabricated structures could be quickly ...

The horrific mystery of “the Pillbox murder” is among scores of Merseyside cold cases that have been highlighted by a new crime map revealing 1,000 unsolved murders. Every case has been the subject of ...

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few.” Winston Churchill’s iconic words defined the early part of World War II. They were given in a wartime speech (now known ...

THE 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Britain was commemorated with a Service at St David's Cathedral yesterday. Yesterday those same few were remembered at St David's Cathedral when the Royal ...

Brits look set for an Arctic blast in the coming weeks when temperatures could plummet to -1C - and we could see snow in three areas of the country. After a chillier start to this week it has become ...

Ex Met detective reveals the 'stupid' mistakes that catch out modern mobsters in their own homes... as we reveal the criminal hideouts lurking on YOUR street FROM council estate tower blocks and dingy ...