The Pacific during the Second World War was the largest battlefield in history, yet all but a tiny fraction of it was water.
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Outnumbered over the North Sea: How one RAF Sunderland fought off six German bombers in 1940
On April 3, 1940, a lone RAF Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 204 Squadron found itself facing overwhelming odds high above the icy waters off the Norwegian coast. Tasked with protecting an ...
There is no shortage of books on the Battle of Britain, but Victoria Taylor, a young British historian, promises readers something different: looking at the battle from the German side, and ...
For thousands of RAF pilots, the system – known as FIDO – meant survival. Colin Bell, 104, said it saved his life on three ...
By far the **best American fighter** in operational service in 1939, and by far the **shiniest aircraft** on this list, the **Hawk 75A** scored the **first aerial victory on the Western Front** of the ...
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The RAF pilot who launched a forbidden strike into Nazi Brussels
After Belgium fell to Nazi occupation in 1940, Baron Jean de Selys-Longchamps refused to accept defeat. Fleeing to Britain, the aristocratic cavalryman reinvented himself as a fighter pilot, forging ...
A Hurricane fighter made for the 1969 film Battle of Britain will go on show at a museum later. The replica aircraft, which sat atop a cinema in Lincoln for two months to promote the movie, has now ...
– Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945) RG-50.030*0435, Oral history interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz, (1926-2020). Oral ...
The idea, the designers explained backstage – as much as those two ever explain their thinking – was to remember the past as a way of enduring the present, with faded fireplaces, lintels, wainscoting ...
The MOD has signed a £205 million contract extension with QinetiQ to strengthen the RAF's Typhoon fleet with ongoing technical and engineering support. The Typhoon is the RAF’s primary fighter jet, ...
Work is due to start this month on a new housing development in a village near Lincoln. The 34-home development will be built in Ingham, just eight miles north of Lincoln, and will include a range of ...
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