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 ...

“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 ...

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(See Cover) REWARD—DEAD OR ALIVE: Englishman, 25 years old, about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, indifferent build, walks “with a forward stoop, pale appearance, red-brownish hair, small and hardly noticeable ...

A father and son have paid tribute to the memory of Battle of Britain pilots by staging photographs which aim to recreate the 1940s. To mark the 85th anniversary of the World War Two campaign, Stephen ...

There are so many anniversaries related to the Second World War, that some of them tend to escape many people’s notice. This year we have quite rightly marked the 80th anniversaries of VE and CJ day ...

Last month, when Germany unleashed her real air attack on Britain, she led with her chin in reckless massed raids of as many as 1,800 planes per day. Last week she showed that she had learned caution, ...