Volunteers made rubbings of the tombstones of 20 British Royal Air Force cadets who died in training in Terrell during World ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

Baltimore FW282, operated by RAAF's No 454 Squadron, was returning from a mission over the Aegean Sea when it was ambushed.

George Kelly is made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the King at Windsor Castle (Jordan Pettitt/PA) A Second World War Royal ... the Air Force Medal (by Queen Elizabeth II).

The “Bringing the Boys Back Home” initiative reconnects the legacy of these soldiers with their families in the United ...

Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, DFC, AE, an Irishman who served in the British Royal Air Force (RAF ... Later in the war, he was shot down a fourth and final time while flying a Spitfire ...

During World War II, thousands of British cadets learned to fly at six civilian training schools across the southern United ...