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

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of ...

In 1940, Hemingway downed a German Luftwaffe plane but his Hurricane ... which became known as the Battle of Britain. During intense dogfights in August 1940, Hemingway was forced to bail out ...

THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain. Less than 3,000 Allied airmen took part in the air battle ...

But the Allies, far better than the tiring Luftwaffe, could replace their losses, press on with the attack. Punches were tossed at targets in German Europe ... bombers from Britain had attacked ...

The Changing the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace has honoured the last Battle of Britain ... as destroying a German airliner and the following day he downed a German Luftwaffe plane, but ...

Paddy Hemmingway, originally from Dublin, was among the men known as "The Few", coined by Winston Churchill to describe the Battle of Britain pilots ...

John 'Paddy' Hemingway joined the RAF at the age of 19 and became one of the airmen Winston Churchill described as 'The Few' ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial on the English Channel coast lists the names 2,941 Allied airmen who took part in the battle. During dogfights with German aircraft in August of 1940, Hemingway was ...