Located a few miles from the Cambridgeshire border is Thurleigh, a quiet village that became home to an RAF base in the ...

RAF Fighter Command was one of three functional commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served throughout the Second World War.

14 in other RAF commands and 34 in the Fleet Air Arm. The names include those of 47 Canadians, 47 New Zealanders, 35 Poles, 24 Australians, 20 Czechoslovaks, 17 South Africans, 6 Belgians and one ...

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

Of course, being used as a filming location by Netflix is not the only claim to fame held by IWM Duxford. The world-famous ...

This extra-length history of the RAF covers every significant event from WWI to 2003's invasion of Iraq. Also included is action-packed footage of over one hundred different aircraft types flown ...

The RAF base at Biggin Hill, south-east of London, played a central part in the Battle of Britain. Part of 11 Group, it was responsible for protecting the south-east of England and guarding the ...

The RAF frequently shifted blame onto legal and medical professionals for increasing costs, ignoring its own inefficiencies that include failure to attend court proceedings, leading to costly default ...

Two USAF F-15E Strike Eagles returned to the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, UK, after upgrades in the USA, which ...

For a place that was used as an RAF base in the Second World War and more than 20 years worth of coal mining - it would seem unusual that the same area is also the last place in Britain to have had an ...

From the Fighter Command control room in Uxbridge, Richard Holmes describes the RAF attacks on incoming German bombers. Churchill's role in the Battle of Britain Mo Mowlam MP describes the Battle ...