Explore the key events of the Battle ... the Battle of Britain A.J.P. Taylor describes the crucial role that Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding played in the Battle of Britain. He also discusses ...

In the summer of that year, he then became one of the frontline pilots responding to daily attacks from German aircraft, which became known as the Battle of Britain. During intense dogfights in ...

An Irishman who was the last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain has died at the age of 105. Born in Dublin in 1919, Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway enlisted in the RAF in 1938 ...

The last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, recalled the moment he was shot down in 1940 in an interview that has resurfaced following his death ...

Hemingway was one of the 3,500 or so Battle of Britain pilots Churchill had in mind when he made his noted remark in 1940: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so ...