fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940 and thus dealing Nazi Germany its first major defeat in World War II: “Never in the field of human conflict was so ...

"We want to ensure these medals are in our care because they tell the stories of the six young men who fought so bravely in the Battle of Britain." The pilots were from New Zealand - only one ...

A Kiwi hero who saved the lives of people in a Stirlingshire mining village during World War II has been remembered ... visitors and VIPs to honour New Zealand Pilot Officer Carlyle Everiss ...

To successfully invade Britain, Germany needed to control the skies over the English channel. This led to the Battle ... pilots from across the British Empire: Jamaica, Canada, Australia and New ...

Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of one of the last remaining Battle of Britain pilots. Former Spitfire pilot Kenneth Wilkinson died in July at the age of 99. Several roads around St ...

Royal Air Force (RAF) Squadron Leader Mark Long died Saturday when his Spitfire fighter crashed during a reenactment of the Battle of Britain Coningsby base in Lincolnshire. Prime Minister Rishi ...

During the summer of 1940, a few hundred fighter pilots stood in the way of Hitler's massive air attack on England. One hundred Canadians were among them. Dubbed the Battle of Britain, it was the ...

A museum in Hawkinge, near Folkestone, has less than three weeks to raise £58,000 to buy six sets of Battle of Britain aircrew medals before the owner sells them to private buyers. Kent Battle of ...