Battle Of Britain

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in the same way. But the Hurricane was responsible for...

As a living embodiment of the “luck of the Irish,” Hemingway survived being shot down four times! 

During the Battle of Britain, perhaps the most fraught moment in the UK’s history, the Spitfire performed admirably.

As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed...

Many a history buff is familiar with Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940 and thus dealing Nazi...

In the global information war, Ukraine is under considerable pressure to demonstrate that it can defeat Russia to avoid a cut-off in foreign arms supplies. Most donor democracies have substantial...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Britain’s Directorate of Technical Development considered Poland’s PZL P.24 monoplane to replace the Hawker Fury before deciding to stay with the indigenous Spitfire. The Supermarine Spitfire...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Fighter Command’s successful defense spared the UK more concentrated daylight bombing raids and allowed her forces abroad to go on the offensive sooner. The air...

In the early years of World War II with a German invasion seemingly imminent, the British army scrambled to equip Home Guard units with defensive weapons. Some of these weapons...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: This is not to discount the valiant effort of the RAF. However, the decisive factor preventing Operation Sea Lion from taking place was not Britain’s...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: On a purely military level, the RAF simply wasn’t the primary impediment to a German invasion of the U.K.; a large fleet of Royal Navy...

Of the myths initiated in the summer of 1940, none was more essential than that Britons were “all in it together”. This image of a united people was a brilliant...