Hugh “Tansie” Lee, Piper, age 73 of Winthrop Harbor, born Hugh Downie Lee, May 20, 1933 in Glasgow, Scotland, passed away, November 12, 2006 in Winthrop Harbor, IL.

If Britain’s fighters could hold out through the summer of 1940, Dowding calculated, the Germans would be forced to either invade in autumn’s bad weather or without the necessary air superiority. Put ...

The man born this week in 1882 arguably is, after Winston Churchill, the reason Great Britain survived World War II, for it was Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding who won the Battle of Britain ...