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 ...

After entering WW2 on the side of the Axis, Mussolini decided to join Germany in its efforts against Britain. He insisted on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wing Commander James 'Butch' McArthur claimed eight kills and three other 'probables' during heartstopping dogfights with the Luftwaffe in 1940.

was considered in the 1930s to be the cutting edge in military aviation – what we would today call a “next generation” fighter plane. On the first day of the Battle of Britain, on May 10th ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

Britain ramped up factory production and by October Fighter Command had more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe. Click or tap on the pilots below to find out about their roles in the battle.

LONDON — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has ... with German aircraft in August of 1940, Hemingway was twice forced to bail out of his Hurricane fighter, once landing in ...

When the war started he was up in a single-seat Hurricane fighter plane and, although the Spitfire would dominate the mythology of the Battle of Britain, it was the Hurricane, with its powerful ...