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The last Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, who died at the age of 105 in March, has been honoured for his ...
The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...
A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of ...
A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa ... of 550-pound bombs. Britain's Imperial War Museum ...
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his ...
After the initial air raids of the Corpo Aereo Italiano (Italian Air Corps) against Britain in which no RAF fighters were met, things changed on 11 November 1940. Two Hurricane and one Spitfire ...
The retired fighter pilot says there is time before Canada has to commit to buying the remaining 72 F-35 aircraft from the ...
After entering WW2 on the side of the Axis, Mussolini decided to join Germany in its efforts against Britain. He insisted on sending an air corps to participate in the fighting and Germans eventually ...
RAF chiefs have paid tribute to the last of The Few — by painting his name on a fighter plane that starred ... hero was the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot. He was shot down four times ...
A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...
Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has said Britain is not fully sharing technologies with Italy and Japan in a major project to ...
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 might be ...