As WW2 began, British Expeditionary Force deployed across the Channel. RAF sent four squadrons of their Hawker Hurricane ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined ... a gorgeous and highly maneuverable air superiority fighter. But the Spitfire’s fond remembrance has obscured the feats of another ...

Well, not exactly. Such a statement leaves out the Hawker Hurricane, the other frontline fighter the Royal Air Force fielded in the battle. In July 1940, when the fight began, the RAF Fighter ...

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 ...

Originally 1435 Flight was formed in 1941 as the Malta Night Fighter Unit (MNFU), operating Hawker Hurricane Mk.II fighters. That is why Typhoons today still retain their Maltese heritage ...

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 ...

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.