The funeral for the man believed to have been the last surviving World War Two Bomber Command pilot has been held in Kent.
Dogfights in WWII were intense, and when planes were damaged, pilots had no choice but to bail out manually. How hard was it to escape a doomed aircraft? Explore the bravery and ingenuity of WWII ...
A fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain is ... Overseas servicemen needed a piece of home in WW2 - Rainbow Corner and the Beaver Club filled the gap.
Jon Tunnicliffe (left) said his father Dennis (right), was one of the children who had been playing in the park A WW2 pilot who eyewitnesses said sacrificed his life instead of landing in a park ...
He was British Air Attache in Caracas, Venezuela, from 1954 to 1957 and in the administrative staff at RAF Colerne before becoming a Ministry of Defence specialist in 1962 and later the Assistant ...
A Second World War US fighter pilot’s dream of making a film about a British military hero of an earlier century came true shortly before his death last year aged 101. Enabling the Hollywood ...
The pilots of the RAF ... And did it last? WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure? documentWW2: How close did D-Day come to failure? Over 150,000 British, US and Canadian soldiers had landed ...
Tem is a very simple item that had a profound effect on the course of WW2 Had the incredibly courageous pilots not flown to land in the fields of France at night the Allies could not have ...
The United Kingdom deployed a laser weapon during the Falkland Islands 1982 war with Argentina designed to “dazzle” enemy pilots who were attacking British warships, according to secret ...