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 ... A large amount of German bombers and fighter escorts (mostly ...

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.

A fighter pilot, Mr. Hemingway was part of the aerial resistance in 1940 that was credited with forcing Hitler to call off a ...

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 ...

As it passed Suffolk, the vessels were attacked by a Luftwaffe Heinkel aircraft and the Umpire dived ... out of the path of the Peter Hendriks, a German-built vessel which was operated by an ...

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

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 ...