As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...
While the RAF deployed several aircraft types over the course of the 112-day Battle of Britain, the two most numerous were ...
Photo: A RAF fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving the signal to engage the enemy during the Battle of Britain. (Getty Images) An overview of the Battle of Britain Michael Flanders narrates ...
Whoever conjured up the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword” didn’t bother commenting on how the pencil fit into that discussion. Granted, a pencil isn’t generally thought of as a warfighting ...
After all, it was the most famous fighter of the Battle of Britain ... was the Hurricane that destroyed more enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain than did all the other air and ground ...
The Luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAF. During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter planes available, while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the ...
On August 24th - these new Canadian fighters realized too late that some of them had been firing on British, not German planes. Two planes escaped, a third did not. As Battle of Britain continued ...
Photo: A RAF fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving the signal to engage the enemy during the Battle of Britain. (Getty Images) An overview of the Battle of Britain Michael Flanders narrates ...