Synopsis In one of his most famous broadcasts to the nation, Prime Minister Winston Churchill outlines the seriousness of the situation after the fall of France. He calls on Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth to prepare to take on Nazi Germany on behalf of the rest of the world. .However matters may go in France or with the French [...]
BBC: A German World War II bomber has been raised from the bottom of the English Channel. The Dornier Do-17 aircraft was shot down off the Kent coast more than 70 years ago during the Battle of Britain. Believed to be the only intact example of its kind in the world, it has lain in 50ft (15m) of water on [...]
BBC: An operation to raise a German World War II bomber from the bottom of the English Channel has been postponed for at least a week owing to bad weather. An attempt on Sunday night had to be abandoned because of high winds. The RAF Museum, which is organising the salvage of the Dornier 17 – believed to be the [...]
The Scotsman reports: IN MAY 1940 the British Cabinet made the fateful decision to fight on against Nazi Germany, rather than negotiate a peace that would leave Hitler with a free hand in Europe. After the fall of Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and France between April and June 1940, all the countries directly east of the North Sea were [...]
The American author Philip Kaplan is right at home with the Battle of Britain and his writing appeals to me very much. He brings a warmth to it like many Anglophiles appear to do and he has become immersed in it. This latest work finds him retracing the life not of an Englishman, but of the South African Adolph Malan, [...]
A Battle of Britain war hero has been awarded his campaign medals for the first time on his 100th birthday – 68 years after the war ended. Leon Filary’s family realised he should have been awarded six medals for his war efforts while combing through his old belongings. They set about arranging a surprise ceremony for the deserving centenarian at [...]
‘You might shoot somebody, or you might miss them. But two or three minutes and there isn’t an aeroplane in the sky anywhere. They’ve all gone. Bloody remarkable.’ So said Wing Commander George “Grumpy” Unwin, a World War II Battle of Britain fighter pilot whose personal story is featured in a new exhibition about the men and women who lived, [...]
George Cross war hero defused 200 bombs in 60 days during Battle of Britain Squadron Leader Wilson Charlton showed nerves of steel and ‘unfailing courage’ in his death-defying work that saw him deal with an average of three live bombs a day. The RAF bomb disposal expert tirelessly worked day and night to make safe the UXBs that were dropped [...]
by David Frum Remember that photo of the RAF pilot getting his hair cut between missions? His name was Francis Mellersh, and it turns out his daughter is a friend-of-a-friend. She sends more of the story: We have the original of the photo, and the book (he was crazy about John Buchan) and that bloody pipe killed him in the end [...]
From the frantic pace of the Battle of Britain to the tense Cold War stand off, crews at RAF Duxford spent more than 40 years policing our skies. Now a new exhibition at the Cambridgeshire base will bring to life the work of the men and women who fought wars from their own soil. Founded at the 1918 birth of [...]
WWII Airborne Demonstration Team Open Hangar Day/Fly In date set Read more: Altus Times – WWII Airborne Demonstration Team Open Hangar Day Fly In date setJune 20, 2013
Fragments of Teddy Roosevelt’s son ‘s downed WWI aircraft to be auctionedJune 19, 2013
Kim Jong Un handing out copies of ‘Mein Kampf’ to senior North Korean officialsJune 19, 2013
Return to Auschwitz: How Israel keeps Holocaust memories aliveJune 19, 2013
Petition for Medal of Honor: James “Maggie” MegellasJune 19, 2013
Hungary indicts 98-year-old accused of beating Jews, assisting in WWII deportationsJune 19, 2013
Michael Karkoc Investigation: Poland Reviews Files On Commander Of SS-Led WWII Unit Living In MinnesotaJune 19, 2013
German War Files – Green Devils (elite paratroopers) ’42 – ’45June 19, 2013
Goole’s part in D-Day rememberedJune 19, 2013
60 Years Later, Germany Recalls Its Anti-Soviet RevoltJune 19, 2013
The first world war was far from futileJune 19, 2013
Attacks by thieves forces World War I memorial to be removedJune 19, 2013
Experts begin cleaning recovered WW2 bomberJune 19, 2013
Le Chambon: Village saved thousands of WWII JewsJune 19, 2013
France salutes Americans who servedJune 19, 2013
96-yr-old vet one of the last of WWII’s Flying TigersJune 18, 2013
Rosies returns to former WWII bomber Willow Run before demolitionJune 18, 2013
Fragments of Teddy Roosevelt’s son ‘s downed WWI aircraft to be auctionedJune 18, 2013
OnThisDay 1940: Churchill gives his ‘Their Finest Hour’ speech. Listen to a clip hereJune 18, 2013
Abandoned Plane Wrecks of the NorthJune 18, 2013
