Members of the Royal Family has led tributes after the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, passed ...

They had been enemies once, a long time ago. But as Horst Petzschler talked about what it was like to be a pilot in Germany’s Luftwaffe during World War II, the gray-haired men in the ...

The pilot's squadron shot down 90 enemy aircraft during an 11-day period in May 1940, and provided fighter cover during the ...

The last surviving British pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain during World War II has died aged 105, the UK's Royal ...

At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.

"His courage, and that of all RAF pilots, helped end WWII and secure ... In the end, the RAF inflicted so much damage to the Luftwaffe that Hitler shelved his invasion plan buying the Allies ...

The pilot was shot down by Werner Mölders, one of the top Luftwaffe pilots during the Battle of Britain. "We also took the tailwheel from the Spitfire he was killed in which crashed a few miles ...

The Luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAF. During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter planes available, while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the ...

Hemingway was among the pilots known as “The Few” for their role in the seminal 1940 air battle that defended Britain against major attacks from Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe. British wartime ...