303 Squadron was officially activated on August 2, 1940, twenty-three days after the Battle of Britain commenced. However, it would take some time before these Polish fighter pilots were allowed ...

The Battle of Britain which took place in the Autumn of 1940 could have led to an early end to the Second World War if ...

After all, it was the most famous fighter of the Battle of Britain, not to mention arguably ... it by its adversaries’ most famous fighter pilots. Herman Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe ...

During the summer of 1940, a few hundred fighter pilots stood in the way of Hitler's massive air attack on England. One hundred Canadians were among them. Dubbed the Battle of Britain, it was the ...

Pujji was just one of the pilots from foreign lands who fought in the skies above England in that long summer of 1940. At least 595, one in five of the 2,936 Battle of Britain fighter pilots, were not ...

Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of one of the last remaining Battle of Britain pilots ... There are only 10 surviving pilots who served with Fighter Command in the battle in ...

Royal Air Force (RAF) Squadron Leader Mark Long died Saturday when his Spitfire fighter crashed during a reenactment of the Battle of Britain Coningsby base in Lincolnshire. Prime Minister Rishi ...

During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter planes available, while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the Luftwaffe pilots. The average age of an RAF ...

Photo: A RAF fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving ... including a discussion between Battle of Britain pilots Douglas Bader and Paddy Barthropp about the significance of the battle.

Photo: A RAF fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving ... including a discussion between Battle of Britain pilots Douglas Bader and Paddy Barthropp about the significance of the battle.