On foggy nights during World War Two, runways were lit with fire to help guide bombers home. For thousands of RAF pilots, the ...
On January 20, 1943, Belgian aristocrat and RAF pilot Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps made a decision that defied orders, protocol, and common sense. He had repeatedly asked permission to strike a ...
After the fall of France to the Nazis in 1940, Britain stood alone in Europe against the Germans. However, before Hitler’s ...
BBC Breakfast viewers were amazed as 105-year-old WW2 Mosquito pilot Colin Bell celebrated his birthday on the show,.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wing Commander Clive Beadon was dive-bombing the Burma-Siam railway in an RAF Liberator, similar to the plane pictured, when his ...
Dubliner, John "Paddy" Hemingway, an RAF pilot and member of "The Few", is remembered as a hero. Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway was born in Dublin in 1919. He enlisted in the British Royal ...