Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been held. An ...

In WW2, the British made destroying German dams ... To accomplish this, they needed a special plane to deliver the payload: the Lancaster Bomber. Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) stopped using its Merlin-engined Hurricanes and Spitfires following the death of ...

In 1942 in an attempt to break German morale the RAF began attacking German towns ... The spitfire is the most famous plane of WW2. Its groundbreaking design and superior specifications gave ...

The funeral for the man believed to have been the last surviving World War Two Bomber Command pilot has ... along with an RAF bugler who played the Last Post. Jack Harris while serving as a ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

But in World War II, that was precisely what was done, as pigeons were raised on RAF bases so that crews could take them along on bombers and release them to take back messages if the need arose.

It is close to RAF Wratting Common, where Lancaster bombers regularly flew during World War Two.

Relatives of crew members lost aboard RAF bombers during the Second World War recently paid a special visit to West Norfolk.

Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey ... Tim Richardson, an RAF veteran and historian for the National Trust in Surrey, said: "The aircraft flew over ...