As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...
In the early years of Second World War, fighter planes were in short supply ... railway boxcars but now the Allies) needed Hawker Hurricane airplanes and quickly. The daunting task fell to ...
Photo: Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, the renowned fighter ace, and fellow pilots study a caricature of Hitler painted on a Hawker Hurricane in October 1940. (IWM CH 1412) Mo Mowlam analyses the ...
A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside ... The events of the 15th September. From the Fighter Command control room in Uxbridge, Richard Holmes describes the RAF ...
All of 303 Squadron’s kills obtained during the Battle of Britain were attained in … yep, you guessed it: the Hawker Hurricane. What’s more, the only RAF Fighter Command flyboy to be awarded ...
A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside ... describes its evolution from seaplane to world-famous fighter. The production of Spitfires during World War Two.