On her voyage north from Kent, she was part of a convoy. As it passed Suffolk, the vessels were attacked by a Luftwaffe Heinkel aircraft and the Umpire dived successfully for the first time.

The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.

Also, in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 1, 1939, a mixture of Heinkel He 111’s, Junkers Ju 87B’s, and Dornier Do 17E aircraft from Lufflotte 4 (Air Fleet 4) took to the skies to attack Polish ...

THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle ...

Depending on your perspective, German aviator and Patagonia explorer Gunther Pluschow was either phenomenally lucky, or phenomenally unlucky.

On the first day of the Battle of Britain, on May 10th, 1940, Hemingway claimed his first aerial victory – a Heinkel III bomber ... down by a German anti-aircraft battery near enemy lines ...

An Irishman who was the last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain has died at the age of 105. Born in Dublin in 1919, Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway enlisted in the RAF in 1938 ...

Hemmingway was recorded as shooting down a Heinkel bomber and a Dornier bomber on consecutive days but had to make a forced landing on the second occasion after being hit by German anti-aircraft ...