On August 15, 1940, 85 years ago, the Royal Air Force (RAF) secured its first aerial victory of the Battle of Britain. Squadron Leader Ernest Archibald “PeeWee” McNab, commanding a Royal Canadian Air ...
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Battle of Britain: When Hitler’s Air Armada Met Its Match in the Skies
In the summer of 1940, the fate of Europe hung in the balance as the Luftwaffe prepared to crush Britain from the air. Fresh ...
This is an extremely thorough and mostly complete examination of the Battle of Britain. (Mr. Holland skips Italy’s contribution to the battle, which, though small at 170 aircraft, was still there.) ...
In terse notations, the logbook kept by Royal Air Force fighter pilot John “Paddy” Hemingway in the summer of 1940 records the deadly struggles in the skies over England as wave after wave of German ...
The average age of a WW2 pilot was 20, so Stephen used his 24-year-old son as a model A father and son have paid tribute to the memory of Battle of Britain pilots by staging photographs which aim to ...
This work enhances Holland's (Italy's Sorrow) developing reputation as a writer of popular military history with a solid scholarly dimension. He shifts effortlessly from a cockpit perspective to the ...
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