National Interest on MSN4d
303 Squadron: These Polish Fighter Pilots Won the Battle of BritainMany a history buff is familiar with Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force (RAF) ...
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) suffered its first-ever fatal accident in May when one of its Spitfires crashed outside RAF Coningsby. Senior officers grounded the BBMF after the ...
Following the defeat of France, Britain and the empire was left to fight Germany. To successfully invade Britain, Germany needed to control the skies over the English channel. This led to the ...
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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight 'may never fly again' amid 'risk-averse culture' at MoDThe Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) may never take to the skies again, aviation experts fear, after being grounded ...
Jan. 18 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended ...
The journal's author, Virgile Henri Sonnet, born in Jersey and 26 years old at the time of the battle, was a non-commissioned officer in HMS ... efforts to save those German sailors who had ...
The covert mission saw the British Indian Army’s Calcutta Light Horse (part of the Cavalry Reserve) sink a German merchant ... there’s 1969’s Battle of Britain on afterwards, which saw ...
Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas ... Two Russian armies invaded German East Prussia in August 1914. Rennenkampf's First Army was to converge with the Samsonov's Second Army ...
British soldiers among smashed dugouts and trenches during the Battle of Flanders ... and a fair number of German soldiers had lived and worked in Britain before the war. Sometimes it seemed ...
The Battle of the Somme lasted five months in 1916 ... In 1916, the British and French planned the attack in part to break through the German lines and end a stalemate that existed in the trenches ...
It was big - the size of a German shepherd dog.' Prof Allaby, who has always been 'open-minded' about the possibility of of big cats in Britain ... Police's wildlife crime officer, Mark Maylin ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN11d
The Dramatic Rescue of the Citizen Sailors Who Patrolled the Atlantic Coast Looking for Nazi U-BoatsDuring World War II, the crew of the Zaida were among the everyday Americans who risked their lives watching out for enemy ...
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