Fighter Command was one of three functional commands – along with Bomber Command and Coastal Command – of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of ...

As it was a top-secret site housing RAF Fighter Command 11 Group, there are no known wartime photographs of how the bunker ...

1940), the relatively outnumbered RAF Fighter Command managed to beat off the Luftwaffe's best efforts to secure air supremacy in anticipation of a German invasion of Britain. Known as "The Few," ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry," wrote Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, head of RAF Fighter Command ...

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 ...

AeroTime looks at three pivotal events from World War II when aircraft and aerial battles reshaped the conflict and turned ...

At the eastern end of the magnificent Lady Chapel built by King Henry VII is a chapel dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force who died in the Battle ... contains the badges of the fighter ...

Aircraft carrier strike groups from the US Navy and British Royal Navy have assembled in the North Sea for a colossal ...

The anniversary of the Battle of Britain has been marked on Sunday at a memorial site in Kent. The clifftop tribute to 'The Few' at Capel-le-Ferne, near Folkestone, was dedicated to the men who ...