If you've ever been on a holiday to Europe, chances are you have flown from Stansted Airport. It's the fourth-busiest airport ...

RAF Ingham, north of Lincoln, was a grass airfield during WW2. It was home to several Polish bomber squadrons and now volunteers from the RAF Ingham Heritage Group are aiming to restore more of ...

Many a history buff is familiar with Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force (RAF) ...

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It was officially named RAF Stansted ... bomber squadrons from the USAAF, flying B-26 Marauder bombers. B-26 Marauders were twin-engined bombers first used over the Pacific Theatre in WW2 before ...

A Second World War aviator flew a plane which was on fire for 500 miles while trying to put it out with flasks of tea. Wing ...

On 16 and 17 May 1943, a squadron, No. 617 ... In 1942 in an attempt to break German morale the RAF began attacking German towns and cities in earnest. On the night of 13/14 February 1945 ...

The Polish Air Force's 307 Squadron were stationed at RAF Exeter, now Exeter Airport, during World War Two An exhibition commemorating a Polish squadron's contribution to the South West in World ...

I'm a historian and I've been going through the BBC archives looking for stories explaining the events of WWII. The war was ... airfields of Fighter Command. RAF squadrons were scrambled immediately.