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

Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air ...

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

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 ...

Drawing on new research, this aims to offer “revelatory” insights into the men who flew Hitler’s air war against Britain in the summer of 1940, showing them as a multi-dimensional ...

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 ...

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, who died in March at the age of 105, has been honoured with a Hurricane named after him The last Battle of ... others defended Britain against the German air force.

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 ...