In this Then & Now episode, we revisit the quiet hills of Kent where, on July 8, 1940, the RAF scored its first fighter kill ...

In this climactic part, Park’s strategy is put to the test as waves of German bombers and fighters head for London. The video recreates the unfolding air battle minute by minute, revealing how ...

The joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 that signified the beginning of WWII resulted in the conquest and occupation of Poland after a mere thirty-five days. However, the Poles ...

Thirty-five years ago, the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Sept. 3, 1990, issue featured a fold-out image of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, commemorating the key World War II ...

LONDON — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that Britain ...

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 ...