In 1944, a slow-moving, rust-stained freighter, perhaps of the Empire class, braved the cold, dark and U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic Ocean amongst dozens of other ships, …

On the afternoon of Thursday, 13 July 1944, Squadron Leader Harold James Dowding led his 442 Squadron pilots back home across the French countryside after an uneventful fighter sweep behind enemy lines….

In 1967, just 22 years after the end of the Second World War, when the producers of the epic motion picture Battle of Britain contracted with the legendary Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie,…

Arnold Roseland was just 28 years old when he died in an aerial gunfight over Normandy in the summer of 1944. He had fought both the Japanese in the Aleutians and the Nazis…

I’m certain that wherever you live on this tiny planet, it is for you the finest place imaginable. I understand that. That’s why people from Syria don’t really want to become refugees…

On 15 September 1940, the future of Great Britain was unknown. The Luftwaffe’s Heinkel and Dornier bombers, accompanied by hordes of Messerschmitt fighters, had been hammering cities and airbases on an almost daily basis for more than two…

En 1999, les membres du Comox Air Force Museum, sur l’île de Vancouver, ont entamé un projet de 10 ans visant à reconstruire un Supermarine Spitfire IX à partir des cendres d’une ancienne épave de l’armée de l’air sud-africaine. Une fois terminé, ce Spitfire…