Germany's blitzkrieg through France in June 1940 left the UK all alone against Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. It was also a wake up call for the U.S.- still on the sidelines of World War II - that its air ...

At Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire-the beating heart of British vintage aircraft flying-the whine and roar of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines marked the 85th anniversary of the start of the Battle of ...

The Luftwaffe carried out raids on British urban targets for two months prior to the start of the Blitz, with the loss of over 1,000 civilian lives. Photo: Stukas in formation in April 1940. Stukas ...

A remarkable never-before-seen photo archive charting the wartime heroics of one of 'The Few' has been unearthed on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Squadron Leader Jocelyn Millard, an ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: On a purely military level, the RAF simply wasn’t the primary impediment to a German invasion of the U.K.; a large fleet of Royal Navy warships was. By June 1940, ...

One of the most misunderstood military forces in history is Hitler's Luftwaffe. It has long been derided by a great many American authors, such as Samuel Mitcham, Jr. and Edwin P. Hoyt, to name two of ...

Those who argue that historiographical consensus about a past event is impossible to achieve and that any event is always open to revision from another perspective need to exercise caution. Saluting ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Acknowledging these factors isn’t to diminish the heroism of the RAF pilots who defended the United Kingdom. Fighter Command’s successful defense spared the UK more ...

07:59, Mon, Sep 14, 2020 Updated: 04:39, Wed, Sep 16, 2020 Nearly 3,000 men of the RAF took part in the Battle of Britain - a group Winston Churchill referred to as ‘The Few’. Men came from all over ...

Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is something that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War. But it was the battle for Britain's ...

Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. Led by Hermann Goering, it became the largest and most powerful in Europe by ...