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

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.

Hemingway was one of the 3,500 or so Battle ... the Battle of Britain; what their adversaries named kanalkampf, or “channel battle”, and the defence of British shipping from Luftwaffe attack.

Britain ramped up factory production and by October Fighter Command had more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe. Click or tap on the pilots below to find out about their roles in the battle.

John Angel Chu (one of Duke’s fellow Flying Tigers), and Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway (the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot ... lines by two of the Luftwaffe pilots who ...

Today’s Stoodley Pike, visible from across a wide area of the South Pennines, is a replacement built after the first monument was destroyed ... Ambassador to Great Britain had left London ...

Overall, 2,300 residents of Britain's Channel Islands were deported ... 44 islanders were killed in a sequence of raids on the ports by the Luftwaffe. The Nazis soon occupied the islands, which ...

But one of them was left to fall into disrepair over several years and was eventually destroyed by Storm ... following large RAF losses in the Battle of Britain and was granted conservation ...

Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...

In the summer of 1940, Britain was staring down the barrel of a gun ... But the RAF had fewer pilots, inferior planes and less experience than the amassed forces of the Luftwaffe. As German bombs ...