Say “Witam (Hello)” to the gallant exiled Polish pilots of the RAF’s 303 Squadron—aka, the 303rd “Tadeusz Kosciuszko Warsaw“ Fighter Squadron. 303 Squadron: Born in the Ashes of Conquest The joint ...
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 ...
The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the “spoils of war” captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons. A senior RAF ...
In a sleepy part of the Bedfordshire countryside, near the Cambridgeshire border, an RAF base that no longer exists played an important and largely unknown role in WW2. Secrets about wartime ...
While fighter planes, bombers, and their pilots were instrumental in WW2, there were hundreds of people in the RAF whose feet never left the ground. The roles these people played were no less ...
The extraordinary story of how two RAF squadrons finally sank Tirpitz, Germany's most powerful and dangerous Second World War battleship, after 34 failed attempts ...
Most of us do not know anyone born in 1925. Most of us also do not know a WWII RAF veteran. Squadron Leader Stan Mellor of Oswestry is both, and SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is helping to give him ...