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

Josef František joined the Czechoslovak Air Force. By 1940, he was flying for the RAF and topping the ace charts during the ...

The summer of 1940 saw the outnumbered RAF stymie the Luftwaffe’s attempts to establish ... largely of small civilian boats. During the Battle of Britain (officially defined as lasting from ...

THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain. Less than 3,000 Allied airmen took part in the air battle ...

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. Led by Hermann Goering, it became the largest and most powerful in Europe by the start of World War ...

had to defend wave after wave of deadly Luftwaffe attacks during the Battle of Britain. That fight in the skies about southern England between July and October 1940 was a crucial turning point in ...

There are calls for a special national service to honour Battle of Britain pilots after the last ... of the small band of brothers who kept the Luftwaffe at bay in 1940. They were dubbed ...

Many will have felt deeply the death last week, at 105, of Group Captain John Hemingway. A Battle of Britain pilot, shot down four times, he was the Last of the Few. He was just 21 when he took to his ...

At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.

Hemingway was among the pilots known as “The Few” for their role in the seminal 1940 air battle that defended Britain against major attacks from Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe. British wartime ...