This would be the first bombing raid of World War II. 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 ...

A new campaign has been launched for a Norfolk memorial to the Royal Navy sailors of HMS Umpire, a submarine sunk off the coast in one of the ...

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.

This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...

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.

Battle of Britain pilot Paddy Hemingway, who served from the first day of the Second World War to the very last and was shot ...

The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, belonging to Norway, is famous for being home to the Global Seed Vault and for having ...