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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Resumes Operation After Grounding
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) at RAF Coningsby, Lincs, resumed operation of its single-engine Merlin-powered ...
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P-51 Mustang: An American Icon
The combination of speed, range, and armament made the P-51 Mustang one of the most versatile platforms of the Second World ...
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John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, dies at 105
The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who ...
John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...
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Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies at age 105
John "Paddy'' Hemingway joined the Royal Air Force and battled Nazi aircraft in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Last surviving RAF fighter ace from the Battle of Britain dies at 105
The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.