As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...

Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air ...

Winston Churchill’s Battle of Britain Bunker was hidden from the Nazis underneath a formal garden, research has revealed. The ...

Between June and October 1940, the Royal Air Force (RAF) fought off an invasion attempt from the German Air Force ... brave pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain but the vital contribution ...

Meanwhile, the Poles were desperate to fight, eager to take revenge on the Nazi German armies that had destroyed Poland and forced them away from their homes. Moreover, the Battle of Britain started .

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight are delighted to announce the appointment of Squadron Leader Paul Wise who will become the Officer Commanding in October 2025 ahead of the 2026 – 2027 display ...

Most of Britain’s manufacturing industry base was out of German fighter range ... Are there any signs that senior Luftwaffe officers knew the size of the task before the battle – there are many, but ...

The aircraft, which was identical to one which fought off the German Luftwaffe, had been a major attraction for two decades at the Battle of Britain ... flown by Flying Officer Jeffrey Quill ...

Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air ...

On August 24th - these new Canadian fighters realized too late that some of them had been firing on British, not German planes. Two planes escaped, a third did not. As Battle of Britain continued ...

Sir Winston Churchill on the RAF after the Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain was a struggle between the German Luftwaffe (commanded by Hermaan Göring) and the British Royal Air force (headed by ...

‘The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.’ Winston Churchill, 18 June 1940. By June 1940, German forces had overwhelmed the Low Countries and France using ...