Our tribute to a pilot's battle against the elements over the English Channel in 1940. An RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk1 pilot ...

The airfields of World War Two were more than strips of grass and concrete - they were lifelines where young men faced death ...

The 1944 'Spirit of Kent' Spitfire on the tarmac at Biggin Hill - Julian Simmonds for The Daily Telegraph On a bright Wednesday morning in Biggin Hill, south-east London, Joe Hurst clambers into the ...

Veteran Spitfire pilot Peter Proctor gasps with excitement as he leaps out of a plane for the first time ... at the age of 92. Plucky Peter flew the legendary fighter plane after joining the RAF in ...

Jack Gillard, 2828 Squadron, RAF Regiment. Stationed at Perranporth, Spitfire Fighter Aerodrome. February 1944 as a member of a Bofors Anti-aircraft gun crew. We had been moved off the Ack-Ack site ...

World War II, over its six-year span, saw the death of approximately 85 million people. In the name of victory, for defense and offense, nations developed creative new ways to fight, from the sea, on ...

Bruce Mclean, Chief Engineer at the Sydney Manufacturing Hub who is leading the restoration of Sandy's Spitfire recovered by the AA810 Spitfire Project. He is pictured with the one of the aircraft's ...

A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident” near ...

‘Spit’ pilots flew their first combat missions over Dunkirk during the Battle of France David Kindy - Correspondent Flight Lieutenant Robert Stanford Tuck of the Royal Air Force was closing in on his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tolkowsky, right, shaking hands with a British officer - Government Press Office Major General Dan Tolkowsky, who has died aged ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the week we honour Battle of Britain Day, the peak of our 1940 air defence of the UK, we stepped into the boots of our flying heroes. Your patriotic Express went 'Chocs Away and Tally Ho ...