Josef František joined the Czechoslovak Air Force. By 1940, he was flying for the RAF and topping the ace charts during the ...

The Luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAF. During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter ... Goering planned for British Fighter Command to be destroyed, as well as airfields and RAF ...

On August 30 th, during another training flight, Flying Officer Ludwik Paszkiewicz noticed a Luftwaffe aircraft ... the largest number of aircraft destroyed of the 66 Allied fighter squadrons engaged ...

Churchill said of the 3,000 Battle of Britain airmen who kept the Luftwaffe at bay in the summer ... and in his first sortie destroyed a pair of Ju 87s during a dogfight over the Isle of Wight.

The heavy attacks brought Luftwaffe fighter planes out in force ... but at week’s end the tally showed at least 440 German planes destroyed, against a loss of at least 195 Allied aircraft.

The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot has died at ... Paddy enjoyed his finest hour as he defended the skies of Britain from Luftwaffe attacks. Responding to daily attacks from the Nazis ...

John “Paddy” Hemingway, who died on St Patrick’s Day aged 105, was the last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain ... the following day he downed a Luftwaffe plane, but his Hurricane ...

Dubbed the Battle of Britain, it was the first decisive clash ... From July to October 1942, Germanys powerful air force, the Luftwaffe, launched relentless bombing attacks on British ports ...

which is part of the reason that in the Battle of Britain, more Hurricanes flew than Spitfires. In 1940 there were just enough of each to hold off the Luftwaffe. To understand how close Britain ...

Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years ... and the daily threat that their homes could be destroyed.

Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years ... and the daily threat that their homes could be destroyed.