More Hurricanes flew in the Battle of Britain than any other British fighter, with 1,715 taking part and claiming 80% of destroyed enemy aircraft between July and October 1940. Before the World ...

As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

303 Squadron was officially activated on August 2, 1940, twenty-three days after the Battle of Britain commenced. However, it would take some time before these Polish fighter pilots were allowed ...

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 ...

This stereotype of the Battle of Britain might be comical if it wasn ... this elite group of aviators helped keep our overstretched fighter squadrons supplied with new and repaired aircraft to replace ...

In part 2 of our Battle of Britain documentary, we explored how after Germany had swept over continental Europe, Britain ...

Beatrice Shilling a graduate from The University of Manchester made a small adjustment to RAF fighter plane which helped them to ... marking the 75 th anniversary of the end of The Battle of Britain.

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 ...