On August 15, 1940, 85 years ago, the Royal Air Force (RAF) secured its first aerial victory of the Battle of Britain. Squadron Leader Ernest Archibald “PeeWee” McNab, commanding a Royal Canadian Air ...
"The official British Air Ministry record. The Battle of Britain. The actual story of the R.A.F. in the first great air battle in history ..."--Cover. "Issued by arrangement with the Ministry of ...
The Luftwaffe, weather-bound through most of last week, got over England’s east coast long enough one night to drop paper weapons. The Germans thought that the downcurve in British morale (TIME, June ...
Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...
John "Paddy'' Hemingway passed away at 105 years old. Hemingway was a pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Battle of Britain in 1940. The Dublin native served more than 30 years in the RAF. John ...
LONDON, UK — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that ...
LONDON — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that Britain ...
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