Yet six days later, Airman First Class Shigenori Nishikaichi would be dead, killed by an islander, while another island resident who had helped the pilot would ... (Type 0 Fighter) came to rest ...

Commonwealth pilots scrambled from British airfields, flying their Hurricane and Spitfire fighter aircraft, hoping to thwart Hitler’s plan. Among nearly 3,000 aircrew in that first test of Allied ...

A fighter pilot has recalled drinking with German soldiers ... remembers the moment he discovered the war in Europe was over. On 8 May 1945, the Spitfire pilot was in Germany, preparing his aircraft ...

A fighter pilot has recalled drinking with ... remembers the moment he discovered the war in Europe was over. On 8 May 1945, the Spitfire pilot was in Germany, preparing his aircraft for a patrol ...

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

A pensioner devoted five years to constructing a replica model of a Spitfire fighter plane, which now takes pride of ... Its cockpit, complete with a miniature pilot, has also been recreated in ...

The excited little girl who first touched a plane two decades ago is now flying high as the face of India's fast-modernising military and its only woman Rafale fighter pilot. "This is where my ...

A Devon landlord has unveiled his own special tribute to wartime Britain - a full-size replica RAF Spitfire. Simon Powell of the Oxenham Arms on Dartmoor has constructed the WW2 fighter with two ...

India’s first female fighter pilot to fly Rafale: A little girl who dreamt of becoming a pilot is today flying high as the face of India’s rapidly modernising Air Force. Shivangi Singh has ...