Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot ("The Few") of the 1940 Battle of Britain, died at 105 on St. Patrick's Day. An Irishman who served in the British Royal Air Force, ...

(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 ...

The Spitfire emerged after R.J. Mitchell abandoned an unsuccessful earlier fighter and created the sleek Type 300 around the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Its elliptical wing, retractable landing gear, ...

This Spitfire had it all. It was a Mark Vc, the distillation of everything the Royal Air Force had learned in the desperate days of the Battle of Britain. "This is the gold standard," Martin Henocq ...

The Battle of Britain was the first major defeat of Germany during World War 2. October 31, 2020 conventionally marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Britain. The battle, described ...

Group Captain (ret’d) John Allman “Paddy” Hemingway, the last known remaining fighter pilot from the 1940 Battle of Britain, celebrated his 105th birthday on July 17. Hemingway flew Hawker Hurricanes ...

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, ...

Researchers have built a mathematical model to try to understand how changes would affect the Battle of Britain in World War II. Both armchair and pedigreed historians have argued for decades that ...

A Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flyover is scheduled for a Derbyshire event on bank holiday Monday.

In July 1940 the German airforce began bombing Britain. This was met with polite disagreement on the British side — and with high technology, ingenuity, and improvisation. The defeat of the Germans is ...