Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air ...

Moreover, the Battle of Britain started soon and it was immediately revealed that the RAF’s resources were drastically insufficient. By the middle of 1940 Britain had lost half of its front-line ...

The annual Service of Thanksgiving and Rededication on Battle of Britain Sunday will be held in Westminster Abbey on 15th September. The service will mark the 84th anniversary of the remarkable ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF ... and the risk might be bad publicity from aircraft crashing a civilian location or in a town [then], in a risk-averse environment, there is a ...

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 ...

To successfully invade Britain, Germany needed to control the skies over the English channel. This led to the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940, followed by the targeted bombing of towns and ...

A Service of Thanksgiving and Rededication on Battle of Britain Sunday will be held in Westminster Abbey. The service will mark the 82nd anniversary of the remarkable victory by Royal Air Force pilots ...

One hundred Canadians were among them. Dubbed the Battle of Britain, it was the first decisive clash of Second World War and the first battle in history to be fought exclusively in the air.