In the summer of 1940, the fate of Europe hung in the balance as the Luftwaffe prepared to crush Britain from the air. Fresh ...

The Luftwaffe, weather-bound through most of last week, got over England’s east coast long enough one night to drop paper weapons. The Germans thought that the downcurve in British morale (TIME, June ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John "Paddy" ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain. By Richard Goldstein Addressing ...

Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, DFC, AE, an Irishman who served in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the 1940 Battle of Britain, died Monday, St. Patrick’s Day, at the age of 105.

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the skies over Ukraine.

I have to declare a personal stake that shapes my opinion as I write this story. It has its origins in 1940, 85 years ago this month. I was seven years old, living near London. I watched the ...

The Spitfire should be the obvious answer to that question, right? After all, it was the most famous fighter of the Battle of Britain, not to mention arguably Great Britain’s most famous fighter ever ...

The last of 'The Few' - the pilots who fought in the 1940 Battle of Britain - has died at the age of 105. John 'Paddy' ...