How Churchill’s Battle of Britain bunker was hidden from German bombers
As it was a top-secret site housing RAF Fighter Command 11 Group, there are no known wartime photographs of how the bunker ...
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James 'Ginger' Lacey: Battle of Britain pilot remembered
Ginger Lacey was one of the pilots described as the "backbone of RAF Fighter Command" Born on 1 February 1917 at Fairfield Villas in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, Lacey had a rural upbringing ...
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Why the P-51 Mustang is Considered the Best WWII Fighter Plane
The aircraft was actually designed and built to meet Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter command’s requirements. The RAF had first sought to acquire the P40 Warhawk, but North American Aviation ...
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Battle of Britain Day
They had switched away from attacking RAF bases and radar stations to focus on bombing London. This inadvertently gave Fighter Command much-needed breathing space. As a result, by 15 September ...
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Wing Commander Percy Reynolds, Bomber Command pilot who survived a fiery crash and won two DFCs
Such facilities had become a prime target for Bomber Command and Reynolds ... where the Lightning supersonic fighter could be found, and the home of the RAF’s Historic Flight, which included ...