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 Luftwaffe pilots. The average age of an RAF ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Royal Air Force pilot who died in a Spitfire crash near RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire on Saturday has been named as ...